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ref. 24309To the editor of "Story" magazine where Mann had been frequently published since its inception and numous anthologies. "I was very interested to learn about your plan of a television series based upon the work and the authors in "The World's Best" and I am quite willing to cooperate in this series. As for the story most suitable for this purpose I am looking forward to your suggestions. unknown books
1935ref. 16476New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1935. First American Edition First Printing. Cloth. Near fine. Signed first American edition first printing of Young Joseph by Thomas Mann in the publisher's scarce dust jacket. Octavo 311pp. Black cloth title stamped in blind on front cover and in gilt on spine. Yellow topstain publisher's patterned endpapers. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block faint dust remnants to top edge a near fine copy. In the publisher's first state dust jacket $2.50 on front flap sunning to spine bright illustrations on covers. Signed by the author Thomas Mann on the front flyleaf. Thomas Mann 1875-1955 was a German novelist and essayist known for his exploration of intellectual and moral dilemmas which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. This book is part of a four-part novel series retelling the biblical story of Joseph from the Book of Genesis. Originally published between 1933 and 1943 the series includes: The Stories of Jacob Young Joseph Joseph in Egypt and Joseph the Provider. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
2022ref. 48157Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Very Good . Irvine CA: Suntup Editions 2022. Publisher's Numbered Edition limited to 250 copies signed by Lansdale Kreutz and Mann and colophon this being #223. Octavo; bound in quarter goatskin with Japanese cloth sides; decorative endpapers; 165pp. Frontis; Color plates including fold-out illustration featuring the Artist Edition dust jacket. Errata and two publisher's bookmarks laid in. Housed in a four-flap enclosure covered in Japanese cloth and lined with red velour. Boards show very light shelfwear and a couple faint smudges; binding sound; pages unmarked. Enclosure stained along side panel; a few stray additional spots; overall a Very Good or better copy. Suntup Editions unknown books
1940ref. 470375New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1940. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. Small octavo. 68pp. Light spot on rear board else fine in very good dust jacket with small tear at the front flap fold spot on the rear panel and sunned along the spine and the edges. Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. Rarely found in jacket or signed. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1990ref. 18112301New York: The Limited Editions Club printed by Heritage Printers Inc. 1990. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Hejduk John. No. 122 of 375 copies quarto size 193 pp. signed by John Hejduk with LEC Monthly Letter. German writer Thomas Mann 1875-1955 a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 is best known for his novels and short stories employing symbolism and examining the psyche of those in intellectual circles most famously in his works "Buddenbooks" and "Death in Venice". He wrote "The Black Swan" in 1954 and the novella revolves around an aging woman who must deal with her changing body and the expectations of an uncaring society that values youth over old age. Noted for being one of the first works to utilise hard medicine in the narrative "The Black Swan" is here published by the Limited Editions Club with lithographs by celebrated architect and artist John Hejduk 1929-2000 who brings an architect's eye for symmetry and simplicity in his geometric imagery. This edition includes an afterword by David Shapiro b. 1947 a prolific poet and literary critic whose first book was published when he was eighteen; offering insight and a sympathetic view of the brutality and bluntness often found in Mann's prose he writes "A master of X-ray Mann leads us to the master montage of disease itself. And to the possible health of love." ___DESCRIPTION: Full brown leather title in black on the front board black endpapers lithographs printed in two colours by John Hejduk throughout; Monotype Gill Sans mouldmade Rives Buff Text paper quarto size 12" by 9.25" pagination: i-vi 1-183 184-186 1 colophon one of 375 copies this number 122 signed by John Hejduk on the colophon. With LEC Monthly Letter a thirteen-page softcover booklet with two staples at the spine. In a slipcase covered in black cloth. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed the binding tight with solid hinges the interior clean and bright and free of prior owner markings; spine is very slightly sunned else fine. The LEC Monthly Letter is near fine clean overall with a few stray marks the text block is sturdy without wear except at the corners and a small nick on the top edge of the rear cover. The slipcase is near fine strong and sturdy clean with some minor fraying to the cloth otherwise free of wear. ___POSTAGE: Please note that this is a large and heavy book and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Limited Editions Club (printed by Heritage Printers, Inc.) unknown books
1963ref. 151019N.p.: N.p. 1963. Three vintage reference photographs from the 1963 film two borderless photographs of Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann and one photograph of Jacques Demy and Moreau on the set of the film. One with provenance stamp of film scholar and author "Jean-Pierre Berthome" on verso. A young bank employee Jean encouraged by his friend to try gambling decides to vacation in Nice where he meets and begins an affair with the beautiful Jackie a gambling addict whose addiction masks an emptiness and despair. Set in and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and Monte Carlo Monaco. 2 8.75 x 7 inches 1 8 x 10 inches. One with faint creasing else Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown books
1939ref. 55360Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1939. First printing. Very good plus in very good minus jacket. First edition of this important account of the emigration of "those creative artists and thinkers for whom existence under the swastika became intolerable" cover. Erika Mann daughter of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann was long persistent in her criticism of the Nazi regime. Her best-selling SCHOOL FOR BARBARIANS - published just the year before ESCAPE - was along with this title written with her brother one of the most impactful pieces of pre-war opposition. Mann - who at various points worked as a travel writer war reporter radio broadcaster cabaret owner actress and literary executor for her father - was forced to flee Germany in 1933 herself and later gained British citizenship by way of a marriage of convenience with poet W.H. Auden. While BARBARIANS focused on German fascist propaganda and education ESCAPE details those writers scholars scientists intellectuals and artists who fled Germany beginning in 1933 to escape the censorship and oppression of the Nazi regime. Increasingly uncommon in the first edition especially so in jacket. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original full red cloth stamped in blue and gold. In original price-clipped pictorial jacket. 384 pages. Jacket rubbed and edgeworn with some creasing and like soil. Book has touches of shelfwear at extremities. Else clean and sound. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1853ref. 316013Yellow Springs OH 1853. 2 pp. 12mo. Single leaf of stationery shallow chip at blank left margin with no loss of text. 2 pp. 12mo. The "father of American public school" writes to accept the invitation of the State Teacher's Association of Ohio to deliver their annual address and to express his admiration. In part: "I sincerely hope the time has now come when I can establish cordial relations with a Society which I have long regarded with so much honor & respect. I shall gladly avail myself of this ocassion to show the deep interest which I feel in the noble efforts of the Ohio Teachers of Common Schools." The letter dates from two months after Mann assumed the presidency of the newly established Antioch College at Yellow Springs. unknown books
1816ref. 65448Dedham MA: Printed by H. Mann and Co 1816. First edition. 8vo. 317 1 pp. Sabin 44328: "Contains information relative to the war not found elsewhere." HOWES M-258. AUSTIN 1190. American Imprints 38138. Bookplate of prominent Rhode Island physician Irving Addison Beck on front pastedown some light browning to the text but very good. Contemporary calf rubbed and somewhat eroded rebacked with gilt rules and leather label on the spine. 11197. Printed by H. Mann and Co unknown books
1938ref. 009711New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1938. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good in soiled and stained but intact slipcase. Two volumes in slipcase. The third installment in the Joseph tetralogy. INSCRIBED to Paul Elkin and SIGNED by the author on the title page of the first volume. Mann first wrote an "A" to begin Elkin's last name and then wrote over it. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1950ref. 022175Pacific Palisades 24 March 1950. Letter. Near Fine. Single-spaced typed letter on 8-1/2" x 11" personal stationery to Philip Blair Rice editor of THE KENYON REVIEW thanking him for sending an issue of the periodical "with the article by R. P. Blackmur about my novel 'Doctor Faustus'. But it is my desire to tell you that the repeated perusal of the study has given me great satisfaction and that quite apart from its topic I admire Mr. Blackmur's work as a highly distinguished critical achievement." Mann mentions Blair's own essay on Mann's book also published in THE KENYON REVIEW: "'The Merging Parallels' a study I have not forgotten. Together with this new comment it is included in my collection of personal and public reactions to this work of my old age which is particularly close to my heart." unknown books
1924ref. 140942634New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. First Edition. First American edition first printing. vi 389 ;iv 359 pp. Complete in two volumes bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red lacking slipcase. Near Fine with former owner name written on first blank bookseller tickets on paste downs copyright page on Vol. 2 uncut. In original pictorial dust jackets toned and lightly worn with a little staining to front flaps Vol. 1 Good with chipping at head and tail archival tissue mend to verso along split in front joint Vol. 2 Very Good. The German author's first and most acclaimed novel rare in jackets. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1963ref. 163783N.p.: N.p. 1963. Vintage reference photograph from the set of the 1963 film showing actors Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. Stamp of photographer Agnès Varda film director and wife of Jacques Demy on the verso. Varda and director Jacques Demy were married from 1962 until Demy's death in 1990. While vacationing in Nice a quiet young bank employee begins an affair with a gambler whose addiction and despair mirrors his own. Set and shot on location in Alpes-Maritimes Val-d'Oise and Paris France and in and Monte Carlo Monaco. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 715. N.p. unknown books
1829ref. 39841London: Printed for The Company of Stationers 1829. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Size: 2 3/8 x 1 3/8". Unpaginated. 26pp. Original gold- red- and green-stamped pocket style full morocco binding housed in a matching morocco slipcase. All edges gilt. Striking four-page engraved frontispiece by Henry Adlard depicting the King's Palace and St. James' Park after a drawing by Thomas Mann Baynes. Spectacular miniature Almanac from the year 1830 providing all sorts of useful information such as: common notes for 1830; a 12-month calendar; a table of Kings and Queens' reigns; a table of Lord Mayors and Sheriffs from the year 1809 to the year 1830; a list of holidays; a table of the current coins; and a list of eclipses for 1830. Almanacs were very popular and often given as presents in varying forms to suit every pocket. Our copy contains a gift inscription on free front endpaper for Maria Sotheby "a gift from her dear mamma 4th June 1841." Frontispiece starting but still attached. Tail of spine slightly chipped. Slipcase in overall very good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Printed for The Company of Stationers hardcover books
1941ref. 274392New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Offsetting to blank preliminaries from clippings else near fine in a price-clipped near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1806ref. 41672Dedham: Printed and Sold by H. Mann; who executes music printing of all kinds on reasonable terms 1806. Quarto. Sewn. i title within oval ornamental border 2-32 pp. Typeset throughout. With contents to head of page 2. Contains 27 pieces most with text some instrumental as follows: - Address to a Tuft of Violets. A New Song. Written by H. Mann. Music by O. Shaw - Bonaparte's Grand March - Gen. Abercrombie's March - Tink a Tink - Tears that Exhale. A Favourite Song Sung by Master Walsh in the Prisoner composed by T. Andrews - O Listen to the Voice of Love - Drink to Me only. A Favorite Glee. Composed by Dr. Jackson - Felton's Gavot. With Variations - Poor Emma. A Favorite New Song - Air by O. Shaw - Unmoved I'll Brave the Stormy Sea. Sung by Miss Brett - The Persian Maid. Composed by W.E. Heather. Words by G. Walker - Poor Richard - Adieu My Liberty - 'Tis Only No Harm To Know It You Know. A New Song. The Poetry by J.O. Keefe Music by William Shield - Bonny Doon. A Favorite Scotch Song - Storace - New Century Hornpipe - The Miller's Daughter. A Favorite Song. Composed by Mr. Hook - London. Composed by T. Swan - A Favorite Rondeau - She Lives in the Valley Below. A New Song Composed by Mr. Hook - Resignation. A New Song Composed by O. Shaw - I owe You One. A Favorite Song Sung by Mrs. Seymour in the Sixty Third Letter - A Favorite March in the Demolution of the Bastille - The Cottage in the Grove. A Favorite New Song - Hymn. Composed by O. Shaw Slightly worn and browned; upper outer and lower inner corners stained; some corners slightly frayed and creased. Wolfe 7884. OCLC 36038853 2 copies only. Shaw was a noted American composer compiler teacher singer organist and publisher. "After accidental eye damage leading to blindness he undertook musical studies with John L. Berkenhead Gottlieb Graupner and Thomas Granger about 1800. In 1805 he established himself as a teacher of the piano and organ in Dedham Massachusetts where he began to issue his music in collaboration with Herman Mann. Moving to Providence in 1807 Shaw became a central figure in the city's musical life as organist organizer of bands and composer of songs odes anthems and marches for patriotic and civic occasions. . Shaw sought to improve the quality of local sacred music co-founding the Psallonian Society and provided inspiration to the founding of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society in 1815 frequently participating in its early performance. His tenor voice was described as sweet simple and natural; his performances of his own compositions were said to be remarkably affective. Mary's Tears There's nothing true but heav'n and All things fair and bright are thine were particularly popular establishing him as a leader in the development of American song. Shaw taught the piano and singing throughout his career and conducted singing schools in the early decades of the 19th century Lowell Mason was among his pupils. He also instructed his own children who later served him as amanuenses. His pedagogical compositions include many easy keyboard pieces two instructional books for the piano 1811 1831 and a compilation of ensemble music For the Gentlemen 1807 which was one of the earliest American printed instrumental tutors by a native composer." Bruce Degen in Grove Music Online Mann was an important early 19th century American publisher especially of hymns and secular songs based in Dedham Massachusetts. Printed and Sold by H. Mann; who executes music printing of all kinds, on reasonable terms unknown books
1948ref. 140950007New York: Boni & Gaer 1948. First Edition. Good/Good. First edition first printing. Signed on the front free endpaper by four of the "Hollywood Ten": Herbert Biberman Samuel Ornitz Edward Dmytryk and John Howard Lawson. xii 229pp. Bound in publisher's grey paper spine and front board lettered in green. Good with lean to spine light staining and wear to binding textblock edges. Prelims heavily stained; front free endpaper stained without affecting signatures. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket with light toning and soiling closed tears and some loss to panels folds. Signed by nearly half of the "Hollywood Ten" screenwriters and directors cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions posed by the anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. They were fined and sentenced to prison. Of the four who have signed this book Edward Dmytryk the director of the noir films Crossfire and Murder My Sweet is the only one who recanted and asked to testify claiming the Cold War and the trial of Alger Hiss had changed his mind. In 1951 he gave the names of "subversives" to the Committee. His career was revived and he went on to direct the classics Mutiny on the Bounty The Sniperand The Caine Mutiny. Boni & Gaer unknown books
1930ref. 263154Poschingerstr. 1 Munich 1930. One page signed in black ink. 1 vols. 4to. Old folds pinhole tear at center else fine. One page signed in black ink. 1 vols. 4to. German author Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel prize in lterature in 1929 and Alfred Eisenstaedt was there to take his picture. Mann writes the young photographer to acknowledge receipt of photographs reading in part: «Die Aufnahmen sind ebenso wohlgelungen wie die vorigen besonders gefallen mir die Grossaufnahmene von mir allein und von mir mit meiner Frau. Ich freue mich auch diese hübschen Andenken menem kleinen nordischen Reiseerinnerungen-Archiv einfügen zu können und begrüsse Sie mit widerholten Dank.» I am especially pleased with the large format portraits of me alone and of me with my wife. I will be happy to add these lovely mementos to the small archive of my northern tour. Mann 1875-1955 left Germany for Switzerland in 1933 after the Nazi rise to power. With one-page typed letter signed from Walter Israel editor of Funkstunde radio magazine introducing Eisenstaedt to radio announcer Alfred Braun who reported from Stockholm on the 1929 Nobel Prize ceremony. unknown books
1957ref. 153028Los Angeles: Republic Pictures 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film here under the working title "House of Monsters." Copy belonging to screenwriter John D.F. Black writing under the nom de plume "Geoffrey Dennis" with his manuscript pencil and ink annotations on virtually every page noting deletions and revisions and revising pagination. In his quest to discover the fountain of youth a mad scientist accidentally turns his research subjects who believe they are receiving a cure for depression into grotesque zombies. Self wrappers. Missing title page possibly as issued. Undated 103 leaves with last page of text numbered 94. Carbon typescript and typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Republic Pictures unknown books
1935ref. 27318New York. Aflred A. Knopf. 1935. Gilt titled and embossed black cloth. 12mo. 1st U.S. Edition. Signed by Mann on flyleaf. A Fine copy in the rare dustwrapper. Flyleaf has been trimmed short at bottom edge. Very mild chipping to headpiece of dustwrapper and some very light soiling to rear panel. An innocuous 2" inch ink stamp stating " Autographed Copy " appears at the very upper right edge of the dustwrapper 's front panel. A bright crisp unmarred signed copy of this Mann title in a Very Good original and very scarce dustwrapper. A Jewel. Aflred A. Knopf. hardcover books
1844ref. 56150Boston 1844-45. 1. MANN Horace Seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education; Together with the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth 1844. First edition. Octavo 25cm. Original brown paper wrappers with printed title on front untrimmed; 1991pp. Inscribed "J. F. Bumstead Esq. / with best regards from / Horace Mann" on front wrapper. With a few contemporary pencil annotations. A fresh copy edges gently rubbed one or two small stains to wraps: Very Good or better. This copy presented by Mann to J. F. Bumstead-plausibly Josiah Freeman Bumstead 1797-1868 who authored primary school primers readers and spellers published by Ticknor and other Boston firms in the 1840s. 2. MANN Horace. The Common School Journal vol. VI no. 5; March 1 1844. Containing the "Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education to the Board of Education." PRESENTATION COPY FROM SAMUEL MAY TO ADIN BALLOU. Octavo 26cm. Original paper wrappers printed on front; 64-200pp. Inscribed to "Rev. Adin Ballou / with the best regards of / Sam J. May - / Let all that have eyes read / or all that have ears hear this / admirable document -" With one or two minor marginal pencil marks. Ex libris and discard stamp of Swarthmore College to final leaf. Textblock sound though rubbed but front cover detached rear cover lacking; some staining to outer leaves minor foxing: Good. Presentation copy from Samuel Joseph May 1797-1871 to Adin Ballou 1803-1890 founder of the Hopedale Community. May was one of Mann's allies in establishing the Massachusetts state school system and both he and Ballou were members of the New England Non-Resistance Society a peace organization founded by William Lloyd Garrison. 3. Association of Masters of the Boston Public Schools. Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original brown paper wrappers printed in black on front; 144pp. Inscribed "B. A. Gould" to front upper cover--possibly pioneering Boston astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1824-1896. With occasional marginal pencil marks. A fresh copy with one or two tiny chips to spine: Very Good or better. 4. MANN Horace. Reply to the "Remarks" of Thirty-One Boston Schoolmasters on the Seventh Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston: Wm B. Fowle and Nahum Capen 1844. Octavo 23cm. In original dark beige paper wrappers printed in black on front; 176pp. A sound copy with losses at head and tail of spine joints partly split but holding internally clean: Very Good. 5. ASSOCIATION OF THE MASTERS OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Barnum Field; Wm A. Shepard; S. S. Greene; Joseph Hale. Rejoinder to the "Reply" of the Hon. Horace Mann Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education to the "Remarks" of the Association of Boston Masters Upon His Seventh Annual Report. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1845. First edition. Octavo 22cm. Original beige wrappers printed in black on front; 55 1 56 40 64pp. Inscribed "The Misses Adams / 1 May 1922" on verso of title page. A sound fresh copy with split at front upper joint chip at tail minor dirt to wraps but internally clean: Very Good. Five pamphlets on Horace Mann's 1844 annual report to the Board of Education including two presentation copies of different editions of the report itself and three responses. Mann had toured Europe with his new wife Mary Peabody and friend Samuel Gridley Howe and studied schools in eight countries with special interest in the Prussian school system. His 1844 annual report comparing American and European school systems was received with great offense by Boston schoolteachers. "A group of thirty-one schoolmasters. . . published a sharply worded critique of his seventh Annual Report" targeting "Mann's recommendations for teacher training as well as his opposition to corporal punishment." However this group "soon faced Mann's wrath in the form of written rejoinders" and were ultimately vanquished when "Mann's allies were elected to the Boston School Committee." Despite the controversy Mann's efforts to "merge the best that he found in European educational systems with the principles of the growing American common school movement" saw remarkable success. Under his direction the Board of Education spent over $2 million on improved school buildings increased teacher salaries by over 50% opened fifty new high schools commissioned uniform school textbooks from Boston publishers and alotted time for student exercise-shaping the public school system as we know it ANB. All the titles in this collection are uncommon in the book trade. unknown books
1836ref. 62501Cincinnati OH and Louisville KY: J. A. James and Co. and the author 1836. Second and best edition revised and enlarged by the author. 8vo. lxxii 551 pp. Howes B-1059: "Disputes many of Marshall's finding; contains the journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country." Sabin 9654: "Some copies have a Louisville imprint as here." American Imprints 36479 Virginia Miami. Coleman 3229: "The 1836 edition issued without the portrait more desirable than the first contains an appendix with materials on the Treaty at Fort Stanwix and on Col. Richard Henderson." Much scarcer than the first edition OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition and it appears to be wanting in most major southern institutional collections. At the Brinley sale 1881 the first edition brought two dollars the second nine. Very good. Later three-quarter red morocco gilt rebacked with the original spine laid down gilt ornaments and title between raised bands on spine marbled boards and endpapers top edge gilt by R.W. Smith. 9246. J. A. James and Co. and the author unknown books
1917ref. 7474New York: Arthur H. Moss 1917. Limited Edition. Loose Leaves in Portfolio. Very Good. Harold True cover illustration. Folio. 17 leaves printed recto. Black & white gravure reproductions of fifteen sketches and photographs on heavy cream paper plus historical foreword and map in stiff textured gray paper portfolio with titles and illustration printed in black on the cover six flaps. Black on yellow label for The Quill a Magazine of Greenwich Village affixed to back cover and introduction leaf. Cover with light stains and small edge chips a few leaves with creased corners else crisp and bright complete set intact. This undated "folio de luxe" of romantic street scenes was announced as a limited edition in The Quill Vol. 1 No. 6 of November 1917. Several of these images had appeared in the pages of that magazine of Village artistic and bohemian life. In his historical résumé Dr. I. L. Nascher credits John George Brown the painter of "ragged urchins" and Albert Bierstadt with establishing the first artist's studios there. Quite scarce: OCLC locates only two institutional copies Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Now preserved in a clear archival sleeve with acid free backing. Arthur H. Moss unknown books
1816ref. 22029Dedham: H Mann & Co. 1816. First Edition. Original publisher's boards. Fine bright copy with no foxing or spotting; a superb copy. 8vo xiv - mis-numbering in the Preface where a number sequence repeats; text is complete and correct 11 - 318 pp. Rutkow describes this book as the best and most vivid account of early 19th century American military life. The chapters on surgery are invaluable for the first hand descriptions of the treatment of wounds. Mann was an army surgeon during the War of 1812. The book offered here is a memoir of his experiences. The sections dealing with military hospitals are especially informative about techniques and care of the wounded. G-M #2161.1; Austin #1190; Kelly & Burrage 805-806; Rutkow GS4. H Mann & Co. hardcover books
1816ref. 5778fdDedham: Printed by H. Mann and Co. 1816. First Edition. Octavo bound in modern cloth-backed marbled boards hardcover uncut 317 i pp. Howes M258. “The primary record of medicine during the War of 1812.” – Garrison & Morton 5th 2161.1. The book bears the ownership signatures of John Whitridge 1793-1878 a practicing medical doctor in Baltimore and a later 19th century medical doctor John W. Partridge. Very Good; the book shows old damp-staining and some toning; the final leaf pp. 317-18 has been professionally repaired. Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816. First Edition. hardcover books
