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[Scrapbook of a World War II Navy Nurse] by Shiflett, Marian

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Title: [Scrapbook of a World War II Navy Nurse]
Author: Shiflett, Marian
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Mostly San Diego, CA, 1943. Good. 11¼” x 9¼”. Commercial scrapbook. Pp. 88 with 46 newspaper and magazine clippings, 183 photographs, 14 real photo postcards and 67 pieces of ephemera adhesive mounted and laid in. Photos range from 1” x 1” to 8” x 10”, most around 3” x 4” and all but 2 are captioned. Good: boards lightly worn and scuffed; a few pages detached; pages chipped and susceptible to more. This is a fantastic scrapbook compiled by a young woman from Ohio, Marian Shiflett, who served as a nurse in the United States Navy during World War II. Bright, colorful and heavily captioned, the album contains incredible photographs, news clippings and wartime souvenirs that identify dozens of young men and women in the military and provide an inside glimpse into the lived experience of a naval nurse. Marian Shiflett was born in 1913 in Sidney, Ohio and graduated from the nursing school at Grand Hospital in Columbus in 1935. She served as part of a ranking-officer nurse and doctor unit in Dayton, specially organized, per a newspaper account we found online, “to act and practice as a group so that should the navy demand their services at bases or floating hospitals, the units could be sent to undertake the war tasks and act with greatest coordination together.” In early 1942 she was ordered to the San Diego Naval Hospital, and this album thoroughly documents her life and work there through September 1943. Shiflett then went overseas until 1947, earning the rank of Lieutenant Commander and serving at medical stations in Australia, New Guinea and the Dutch East Indies. She returned to Ohio, married and remained a nurse. She died in 2002. This album is filled to the brim with media coverage, including fabulous photo-illustrated clippings, of medical and military service men and women. There are headlines like “Navy Nurses Win Acclaim for Skill in Emergencies” and an article by Gladyce Badger, Director of the American Red Cross Pacific Unit, on the formation of the Nursing Service Student Reserve. Clippings show nurses at various tasks, as they “instruct hospital corpsmen” and “relax on Fiji Island.” Some seem to have been sent to Shiflett from home, showing “Sidney-Made Products in [the] War Effort,” and several identified friends and fellow service men and women getting promoted, transferred or married. Over 180 terrific photographs, all but two of them captioned, track Marian and another female officer's train trek out west, identifying soldiers, sailors and uniformed women they met along the way, and cover her San Diego sojourn for about the next year and a half. They show “our gang” of women in white uniforms, in swimsuits on the beach and riding horses at La Jolla. There are two shots of Eleanor Roosevelt (“The 1st Lady of the Land”) visiting the nurses and dozens of identified service friends enjoying their off time “out at Rancho Santa Fe,” “Felicita Park near Escondido,” Balboa Park and Zoo. Shiflett collected dozens of souvenirs like matchbooks, napkins and club cards from southern California haunts like the Victor Hugo Inn, El Cortez and Coronado hotels, as well as the U.S. Destroyer Base Receiving Station Fleet Schools and “Torpedo Squadron Three.” There are plentiful small greetings, telegrams and notes from friends and suitors, along with “My identification bracelet Dec. '42,” a ticket to the Destroyer Base-Navy Nurse Dance at the San Diego Club and a large illustrated menu for the Naval Hospital's 4th of July dinner in 1942. The album is enhanced by Shiflett's sweet and detailed captions, the inclusion of original poems and even a friend's two-page diary-style entry, handwritten directly onto pages. There is also a charming color cartoon, signed by one Patricia Latt, of a woman and sailors on the beach, one nearly nude with drawn-on tattoos. A vivid and personalized record of the life of a naval nurse in World War II.

The theory and treatment of fevers. Revised and corrected by Ferdinando Stith by SAPPINGTON, John

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The theory and treatment of fevers. Revised and corrected by Ferdinando Stith
Author: SAPPINGTON, John
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Arrow Rock, [MO]: Published by the author, 1844. FIRST EDITION. Wrappers; scattered browning, minor repairs on a few leaves. First edition. This work is not scarce, but it has a most interesting provenance and history, recorded in manuscript on the front flyleaf. The book apparently belonged to a Dr. J. W. Moodey of Greensburg, Indiana, who writes of Sappington's pioneer use of quinine pills as a treatment for fevers. Dr. G. W. H. Kemper received the book in 1867, and gives an account of the copy in the catalogue of the St. Louis Medical History Club, noting that the work was the first medical book printed in Missouri. Sappington (1776-1856) describes numerous diseases, their causes, symptoms and treatment. A significant work in American medicine.

Ilios. by Schliemann, Henry.

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Title: Ilios.
Author: Schliemann, Henry.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881. First American edition. Fine. 26 cm; xvi, 800 pages frontispiece, folding map, 6 folding plans and elevations, 16 leaves of plates, and numerous illustrations in text. Alternate binding in half morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges. Never read, perhaps never opened. With a preface, appendices, and notes by Professor Rudolf Virchow, Max Mu¨ller, A.H. Sayce, J.P. Mahaffy, H. Brugsch-Bey [etc.].

Morris Ketchum Jesup: A Character Sketch by Brown, William Adams

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB

Title: Morris Ketchum Jesup: A Character Sketch
Author: Brown, William Adams
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tall 8vo, green buckram cloth, gte, 247p, slip laid-in "With the compliments of Mrs. Morris K. Jesup". Includes chapter on the North Pole discovery. Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830 - 1908) was an American banker and philanthropist. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History and was known as a leading patron of scientific research and an eminent art collector, particularly towards his support for Frederic Edwin Church.

Alarums And Excursions. by Agate, James

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Seller: Hoffman Books

Title: Alarums And Excursions.
Author: Agate, James
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Grant Richards. Very Good. 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. -; Very Good in Good dust jacket. DJ shows a little edge and corner wear. .

Â¡Yo! by Alvarez, Julia

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)

Title: Â¡Yo!
Author: Alvarez, Julia
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9781565121577
Condition: Fine
Description: Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page. Bound in publisher's original quarter blue cloth with yellow boards and spine stamped in gilt. 5 x 7 inches. 309 pages.

Uncivil War The Struggle Between Black Men and Women by Washington, Elsie B.

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Title: Uncivil War The Struggle Between Black Men and Women
Author: Washington, Elsie B.
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago: The Noble Press, 1996. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Hardcover with pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 209 pages, [2].

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