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Archive of 65 documents by Taunton, John Colley; City of London Truss Society

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Archive of 65 documents
Author: Taunton, John Colley; City of London Truss Society
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 1865. City of London Truss Society. Archive of 65 documents, including autograph letters signed (mostly to John Colley Taunton [d. 1858]), printed reports and other ephemera. 1822-65. Some documents soiled or dampstained, a few with tears, but overall good to very good. Calendar of the archive included. The City of London Truss Society, a highly successful British charitable organization, began operating in 1807 and continued well into the twentieth century (Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the well-known surgeon and bibliographer, served on the Society's medical staff in the 1930s). A notice published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1813 describes the genesis of the Society: "From the great number of persons among the laboring poor who were afflicted with hernia, and for whose relief no adequate provision existed, on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire, Dr. Herdman, John Taunton, the Rev. H. G. Watkins, James Horton, Michael Bartlett, Joseph Atkinson, John Middleton, John Gardner and John Whitford, met at the City Dispensary, and formed themselves into a Society 'for the relief of the ruptured poor throughout the Kingdom, the City of London Truss Society'" (Philosophical Magazine 43 [1813]: 316). John Taunton (1769-1821), surgeon to London's city dispensary, was appointed the Truss Society's first surgeon; after his death, his son John Colley Taunton took over the post, remaining there until his own death in 1858. By 1813 the Society was treating nearly 2000 patients annually; by Taunton's death in 1821 this number had increased to over 3500; and by the end of the nineteenth century the Society was employing three surgeons and seeing over 10,000 patients per year. The archive we are offering contains 65 documents, of which all but seven are handwritten. Of the 58 handwritten documents, the majority are letters to (and a few from) John Colley Taunton. The most notable correspondent represented here is physiologist and surgeon Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), whose letter to Taunton advises him on a urinary tract infection in a patient. Four of the letters are from surgeon William Kingdon (1789-1863); two of these recommend poor patients to the Society's care. 31 letters are from Samuel Cartwright (1789-1864), a dentist and one of the vice-presidents of the Truss Society; nearly all of his letters have to do with donations to the Society, and several include the exact amounts given. Another group of letters is from Mary Tanner, presumably a patient; two of these letters include prescription notes in what is presumably J. C. Taunton's hand. Also included in this archive are three of the Society's annual reports, for the years 1862-1864; a printed subscription card; and two printed invitations from the Society addressed to Walter K. Taunton. A complete calendar of the archive is included. Royal College of Surgeons, Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. .

The Green Berets by Moore, Robin

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Title: The Green Berets
Author: Moore, Robin
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 1965. First edition, unclipped dust jacket, 8vo, pp. [10], 341, [1]; very slight wrinkling of the jacket, else fine throughout. Inscribed by the author in green flair: "Robin Moore. This is a rare first edition - full of error & no sweat band shown on the beret on the cover. R. M.

LANDSCAPES OF LIVING & DYING by FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

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Title: LANDSCAPES OF LIVING & DYING
Author: FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: [Printed from the type at the Press of A. Colish for] New Directions Books, 1979. No. 125 OF 200 COPIES. 228 x 152 mm. (9 x 6"). 4 p.l., 57, [1] pp., [1] leaf. Original quarter black cloth over marbled boards, smooth spine with gilt lettering. Housed in a tan paper slipcase (sunned, but in still in excellent condition). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page. In near mint condition, with just a breath of rubbing to extremities. A copy from the library of two significant American poets, this is a pleasing edition of the work of arguably the most celebrated of the Beat writers. Political activist, popular writer, widely read poet, important publisher, and owner of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was a central part of the Bay Area Beat scene. He published Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," and was subsequently arrested for doing so, before being acquitted in the famous 1957 obscenity trial. He found inspiration for his writing in a wide range of subjects, including politics, Classical literature, and jazz. "Landscapes of Living & Dying" includes verses ranging from the humorous ("San Jose Symphony Reception") to profound ("An Elegy to Dispel Gloom," written following the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk). This edition is one of several books printed for New Directions at the Press of A. Colish in the late 1970s. The press was founded by Abraham Colish (1882-1963), who had worked his way up from printer's devil at a Bridgeport, Connecticut, press to composing room foreman for the great Bruce Rogers, before opening his own fine printing workshop in New York City in 1907. His press did work for the Limited Editions Club from the 1930s through the 1980s and was employed by the Grolier Club, the Typophiles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others to produce fine press books. This volume comes from the library of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center..

The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass by Mark Twain

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Title: The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
Author: Mark Twain
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: University Press in Dallas/Southern Methodist University, 1946. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1946 1st edition in book form. Solid and VG+ in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with one small closed tear at the front panel's top-edge. Octavo, 76 pgs. Edited and with an Introduction by Ernest E.Leisy.

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