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HOW TO BE VEGAN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York Artisan (2014). SIGNED first edition - "A cookbook/guide packed with strategies and tips for what to wear, how to decorate, where to travel, even navigating relationships and parenthood as a vegan-plus 50 recipes of a plant-based diet." SIGNED opposite the title page with the comment "Happy reading and eating", Resources page, index. 224 pp. ISBN: 9781579655556.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with French flaps.
Book ID: 60746More details Price: $19.50 -
LIVING JONATHAN'S LIFE: A Doctor's Descent Into Darkness and Addiction.
Edition: First edition
Deerfield Beach, FL Health Communications (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A true story of identical twin brothers, each fighting similar physical and emotional battles. One would lose his life; the other would nearly self-destruct." SIGNED by the author and dated on the title page. Appendices on resources available. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7573-06497.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60739More details Price: $18.50 -
LOVE AD OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at life, and at love, when her husband was suffering from a strange and terrifying illness.
Condition: Near fine in a good dj (tear and associated creasing.)
Book ID: 11455More details Price: $12.50 -
JOB ENTERS A PAIN CLINIC & OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Marblehead,MA: Micah Publications, 2003. SIGNED first edition - In twelve stories in which the author examines the impact of modern medical technologies and the way in which we live and die. INSCRIBED on the title page ""To .... I still have the sign you made." and dated in 2006. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-916288-51X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 59883More details Price: $18.50 -
LIKE A NATURAL WOMAN: The Black Woman's Guide to Alternative Healing.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Kensington, (2001). First edition - "Ziba Kashef, a senior editor and former health writer at ESSENCE "RM" magazine, brings you a comprehensive guide to alternative techniques and therapies that can put you on the road to wellness. Drawing on her interviews with a variety of alternative health practitioners, as well as the time-tested folk remedies of our African ancestors and exciting new methods that address the unique health issues of black women, she gives you the tools you need to cope with everything from PMS, weight problems, and diabetes to hypertension Lupus, and cancer and more." 252 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed yellow wrappers.
Book ID: 61284More details Price: $15.00 -
RELUCTANT FRONTIERSMAN: James Ross Larkin on the Santa Fe Trail, 1856- 57.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diaries of Larkin, a young, properous businessman from St Louis, who travelled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health, edited and annotated by Barbour. with a foreword by Marc Simmons. Larkin travelled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856, and his diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians & New Mexican life. Includes appendices with newspaper accounts, some of his letters from 1866. Photographs, double page route map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-11830.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38728More details Price: $35.00 -
MACFADDEN'S NEW HAIR CULTURE: Rational, Natural Methods for Cultivating Strength and Luxuriance of Hair.
New York: Physical Culture Publishing, c, 1899. Hardcover - Advice on caring for your hair for both men and women from one of the leading proponents of physical fitness of his time. Photographs. 140 pp. A small volume measuring just 4 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth (spine slightly slanted.)
Book ID: 48292More details Price: $18.00 -
WHAT MUST I DO?
Winnipeg, Manitoba: Nutrition Research, nd (ca 1950). A book which essentially claims that all disease is caused by poor diet - and this focuses on how to get more natural nutrients. Includes specific suggestions for longevity, overweight and underweight, eye problems, children's illnesses, etc. Charts and photographs. 128 pp.
Condition: Good overall in green wrappers with silver lettering (some creasing to front cover, previous owner's name)
Book ID: 79973More details Price: $12.00 -
WAKING: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Rodale, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Stanford's philosophical, groundbreaking and honest tales of life as a paralyzed man and his journey in viewing himself as "whole" person. INSCRIBED on dedication page" ----, Wonderful things happen a little at a time. With smiles and hope." xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 1-59486-3024.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages.
Book ID: 59490More details Price: $21.50 -
THE SCHWARZBEIN PRINCIPLE: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Deerfield Beach, Florida Health Communications, Inc (HCI), (1999.). First edition - Advice on a balanced eating plan - high protein, low carbohydrate, moderate fats - and examples of its effect, especially on those with Type II diabetes. Includes recipes, notes, index. 364 pp. ISBN: 1-558746803.
Condition: Very good+.
Book ID: 38305More details Price: $10.00 -
FOOD TO SOME, POISON TO OTHERS: The Food Allergy Detection Program.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Hollywood, FL: Frederick Fell Publishers Inc, (2008). SIGNED first edition - A handbook, an allergy detection book, and a cookbook all in one. What initiated this book was the fact that none of the elimination diets at the time took into account that many individuals could not digest soluble fats. Also, all the diets were in food form, without any instruction on how to include these foods in meals. This book uses the menu method to detect problem foods and includes 175 allergen free recipes. SIGNED by the author on the dedication page. Glossary, bibliography, index. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-88391171X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58788More details Price: $18.00 -
ELOQUENCE IN TROUBLE: The Poetics and Politics of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh.
Edition: First edition.
New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - "The first ethnography of one of the most spoken mother tongues on earth, Bangla, this study represents a new approach to troubles talk, combining the rigor of discourse analysis with the interpretive depth of psychological anthropology." A title in the Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics series. Photographs, list of key characters, notes, references, index and glossary. xix, 300 pp. ISBN: 0-195106873.
Condition: Fine (a new copy) in light tan boards with silver lettering, no dust jacket as issued.
Book ID: 72781More details Price: $25.00 -
PRUNES FOR EPICURES: 20 Intriguing Recipes.
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: United Prune Growers of California, (1932). First edition - A slim brochure with several pages on the health benefits of prunes - "every day in some way." Recipes illustrated with photographs. 16 pp (unpaginated) in a stapled silver foil binding.
Condition: Good overall - some damage to silver foil wrappers, contents clean.
Book ID: 90360More details Price: $10.00