Boston:: David Clapp 1861. 1861. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers; creased top right corner chipped spine wear. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "When some time since we had occasion to allude to the fact that ether had proved fatal in a number of instances the announcement was received with much surprise and more than one incredulous correspondent was moved to inquire on what authority the statement was made. The authority was given and reference was made to twenty-five cases that up to that time had been reported. The Boston Society for Medical Improvement soon after appointed a committee to report 'on the alleged dangers which accompany the inhalation of the vapor of sulphuric ether' and recently this committee discharged their obligations in a lengthy and very elaborate report. That they have had 'unequalled facilities' for collecting material this document bears the most unequivocal evidence; and in this respect it may be considered complete. .The report. . . consists of two portions the text and an appendix of forty-one cases of alleged deaths by ether upon which the conclusions of the committee are based. The profession is under great obligations to the Boston Society for instituting this investigation and to the committee for the unwearied zeal they have manifested in the collection of evidence upon the subject of their repot" AMT p. 308. REFERENCES: "Ether as an Anaesthetic." American Medical Times. Nov. 9 1861. 308-316 pp. See: John Farquhar Fulton Madeline Earle Stanton The Centennial of Surgical Anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anaesthesia VII.33. Locations: American Antiquarian Society UCLA Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. David Clapp, 1861. unknown books
Kahn Louis I. Boston Society of Architects. JOURNAL ONE. 1967. Boston the society 1967. Wrapper. Introductory issue contains: an address delivered before the society on April 5 1966 by Louis I. Kahn and an article by Professor Stanford Anderson entitled "Louis I. Kahn in the 1960's." Previous owner's name in ink on the cover otherwise very good condition. <br/><br/> unknown books
Boston 1896. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo 22.5 x 15 x 8 cm. bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame see DAB gave a small 'dancing' party for the society 'A' list of Boston. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station 1:45 AM via private train. Also includes a complete list of the final attendees and a manuscript record of the menu and engraved invitation accompany the individual acceptance and rejection few letters. Very good; some wear to the binding. A stationer's Shipman adhesive half leather letter file book. hardcover books
1893. BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE with brief sketches of prominent brokers bankers banks and moneyed institutions of Boston 1834-1893. Boston: Hunt & Bell 1893. Bound in maroon cloth over deckled boards with gilt spine and front. Sunning and some soiling to covers. Color frontispiece some stains at edges. Final rear blank sheet has damage from silverfish. Other interiors clean and extensively illustrated on glossy papers in black and white with prints and photo reproductions of people banks and landmarks in Boston. A scarce item. unknown
1893. BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE with brief sketches of prominent brokers bankers banks and moneyed institutions of Boston 1834-1893. Boston: Hunt & Bell 1893. Bound in maroon cloth over deckled boards with gilt spine and front. Sunning and some soiling to covers. Color frontispiece some stains at edges. Final rear blank sheet has damage from silverfish. Other interiors clean and extensively illustrated on glossy papers in black and white with prints and photo reproductions of people banks and landmarks in Boston. A scarce item. unknown books
Hoboken NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2010. Hardcover. Very Good. 11 x 8 1/2. 620 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout. Pages are bumped and creased on the corners. Bound in white and black hardcovers. Lightly scuffed. Lightly worn around the edges. VG <br/> <br/> John Wiley & Sons, Inc. hardcover
New York: New American Library 1966. First Edition First Printing. Signed and inscribed by Gerold Frank to musician and writer Artie Shaw. Inscribed on the half-title. “For Artie fellow worker in a brambled vineyard. Most cordially Gerold New York Oct. 1 1966.†With Shaw’s bookplate. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and small tears. The basis of the 1968 motion picture directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Tony Curtis as the mass murderer De Salvo and Henry Fonda as the chief detective that got the murderer to confess. Arthur Jacob Arshawsky 1910 - 2004 better known as Artie Shaw started out his career in music at thirteen as a saxophone player and switched to the clarinet at sixteen. He gained experience and skill while on the road at a young age which lead to steady work in the 30s as a session musician and performing with various bands and orchestras and on radio. His first critical acclaim came with his performance of “Interlude in B-flat" at a swing concert at the Imperial Theater in New York in 1935. And during the swing era Shaw's big band enjoyed such enduring hits like Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" "Back Bay Shuffle†"Moonglow†"Rosalie" "Frenesi" and "Summit Ridge Drive." Throughout his career he worked with many of the great jazz musicians and vocalists of his day including Helen Forrest Mel Torme drummers Buddy Rich and Dave Tough guitarists Barney Kessel Jimmy Raney and Tal Farlow and trombonist-arranger Ray Conniff. A charismatic and complicated man Shaw was married eight times most notably to actresses Lana Turner Ava Gardner Doris Dowling and Evelyn Keyes Betty Kern the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern and ‘Forever Amber’ author Kathleen Winsor. In 2004 he was presented with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his musical career and accomplishments he is the author of an autobiography ‘The Trouble With Cinderella: An Outline of Identity’ three short novels; ‘I Love You I Hate You Drop Dead!’ a collection of short stories ‘The Best of Intentions and Other Stories’ and an autobiographical novel titled ‘The Education of Albie Snow’ which sadly never made it to publication. New American Library unknown books
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