Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, (2008). First edition - When she was denied a visa to remain in the United States, Qanta Ahmed, a young British Muslim doctor, accepted a position in Saudi Arabia. She saw this as more than a new job, but also a chance at adventure in an exotic land she thinks she understands, a place she hopes she will belong. Instead she discovers that The Kingdom is a world apart - she finds rejection and scorn in the places she believed would most embrace her, but also humor, honesty, loyalty and love - and she finds a life-changing pilgrimage back to her Muslim faith. Endnotes. ix, 444 pp plus a reading group guide.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized biography written for older children about the rebellious youth of Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a Spanish boy in a small town in 1886, who resisted his strict doctor father and wanted to become an artist, but grew up to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the nervous system. Illustrated by Arvis Stewart. ISBN: 0-395-194911.

Philadelphia: Inquirer Printing, Office, 1856. Hardcover first edition - Includes a description of the outbreak, suggestions for avoiding similar outbreaks in the future, a detailed accounting of all funds, and an appendix with selected letters to and from the committee. Frontispiece engraving of the monument built to honor the Philadelphia volunteers who devoted themselves to the assistance of the plague stricken communities. 136 pp.

San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Co., (1961.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of an early 20th century medical doctor, born in Ohio, and who, after serving overseas during World War I, went to medical school and practiced medicine both in Columbus, Ohio and then in Modesto, California. He was also very active in the community - especially with the Boy Scouts. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "To some very wonderful people, wholesome and patient and thoughtful" (not personalized.) Fronstispiece. 327 pp.

New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. dj. Hardcover - 'A mesmerizing novel of suspense and supernatural horror-set in the recent past and a near future grislier than anyone could possibly imagine-in which the caduceus, the winged, serpentine emblem of the physician's healing art, becomes the ultimate instrument of corruption and death.' Finalist for the 1992 Bram Stoker Award for best novel. Dustjacket praise from Dean Koontz and Stephen King (who says 'The M.D. is simply one of the best novels of horror-fantasy I've ever read.') 401 pp. ISBN: 0-394-58662X.

New York: The Guilford Press, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the survival, adaptation and utilization of traditional medical systems in a rapidly modernizing country and suggests that a collaboration between traditional and Western biomedicine would advance the goals of community health. Photographs, references, index. xxi, 354 pp. ISBN: 0-89862-7796.

New York: William Wood & Company, 1887. Hardcover first edition - Translated by Frederick B. Power from the second and completely revised (and expanded) edition of 'Grundlagen der Pharmaceutischen Waarenkunde,' originally published in Germany in 1873. Includes 186 illustrations in the text. Index. xiv, 294 pp.

New York & London: Grune & Stratton, (1968). Hardcover first edition - A look at the human side of psychiatrists - the first section focuses on psychiatrists as critics of pyschiatry, while others look at the discovers, the theorists, the dynasties. Includes a detailed look at two Philadelphia clinicians - Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813, and S. Weir Mitchell, 1829-1913. Photographs, index. x, 293 pp.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir of this immigrant from Mexico who becomes well known pathologist, essayist and natural history author - covers the story of his mother, who was brought by her widowed mother to the barrio of Mexico City in 1913 when she was just a year old, and his early years of poverty and ends with his arrival in the United States as a young physician . 209 pp. ISBN: 1-573221171.

London: Sphere, (2011.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Seventeenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge in 1358 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. Historical note. 389 pp. ISBN: 9781847442970.

London: Time Warner, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Eleventh Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge in 1355 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. Historical note. 469 pp. ISBN: 0-316-726400.

London: Little Brown, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Tenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge in 1355 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. ISBN: 0-316-861855.

London: Time Warner, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Twelfth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Lincoln in the winter of 1356 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-316-726419.

London: Sphere, (2007.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Thirteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge in 1357 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. Historical note. 436 pp. ISBN: 0-316-726419.

London: Sphere, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Fifteenth Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew, set at Michaelhouse at the University of Cambridge in 1357 - a darker series of medieval mysteries than those of Ellis Peters. Map, historical note. 458 pp. ISBN: 9781847441102.

New York: Macmillan, 1963. Hardcover first edition - A book which presents a comprehensive overview of pharmacology from Egyptian and Graeco-Roman Medicine through Byzantine and Arabian Medicine and the school of Salerno in Renaissance Italy up through 1959, from the discovery of effective therapeutics - cinchona bark, ipecac, digitalis - to an age of experimental pharmacology. Included are discussions of anesthetics, psychopharmacology, chemotherapy, vitamins and hormones, antibiotics and more - and of the scientists who worked with these substances. This copy is INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "For Clare, the scholar, with bright admiration" and SIGNED and dated Charles Higgins, 1965. The following year, in 1966, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Medicine. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. x, 395 pp.

London & New York: The Faith Press / Morehouse-Barlow Co., (1960). Hardcover first edition - Anecdotes from years at a hospital in South Africa, including a discussion of the differences between traditional medicine and Western medicine. Illustrated with black and white photographs on glossy paper. Preface, prologue. 127 pp.

Cincinnati, Ohio: J.U. and C.G. LLoyd, 1911. First edition - In addition to the primary article, this includes portraits and brief biographies (printed on the tissue guards for each portrait) of several of those involved in this field - John King, William Stanley Merrill, Alexander Wilder, Grover Coe and others. References. 53 pp

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive monograph on this South America drug used as an arrow-poison from its historical use to modern studies of its effects. Extensive references at the end of each chapter. Map frontispiece, charts and tables. Index. 240 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's unique and highly praised first book, a series of interconnected stories which cover almost five centuries of "peculiar" New York doctors from the 17th century when Dr. Olaf van Schuler emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1664 to today. Each generation applies what was then the current medical wisdom to things like explaining a death by spontaneous combustion, resuscitating a boy's corpse and using phrenology to predict human behavior. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 290 pp. ISBN: 9781565125612.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - The author's unique and highly praised first book, a series of interconnected stories which cover almost five centuries of "peculiar" New York doctors from the 17th century when Dr. Olaf van Schuler emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1664 to today. Each generation applies what was then the current medical wisdom to things like explaining a death by spontaneous combustion, resuscitating a boy's corpse and using phrenology to predict human behavior. Small format. 290 pp.

New York: Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin, (2003). Hardcover - A book for older children which "describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on Philadephia's residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs and practices. . . [He] spotlights the heroic role of Philadelphia's free blacks in combating the disease, and the Constitutional crisis that President Washington faced when he was forced to leave the cityand all his paperswhile escaping the deadly contagion. A Newbery Honor Book and nominated National Book Award Illustrated with fascinating archival prints. Map, sources, index. Slightly over-sized format. 165 pp. ISBN: 0-395776082.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In addition, though, this is a book about the wonders of Antarctica and of the difficulties encountered by the scientists and researchers there. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title by Nielsen. Map, photographs. xvi, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Neilsen was the physician at the Admundsen-Scott South Pole Station when she discovered a lump in her breast after the ice had set in, isolating the station from any help. This is her account of how she treated herself, of the support of the other members, and finally was air-lifted out in a dangerous rescue flight. Illustrated with photograhs. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

Powell Butte, OR: Big Juniper Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - A collection of seven short stories by this doctor who has spent many years working in the Alaskan Arctic and then overseas in third world countries. Includes an introduction by Richard Moss and two prologues and an epilogue by the author. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1995. 117 pp. ISBN: 0-962756938.

Hamburg: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Ethnomedizin, 1973. First edition - Text is in German, English and French. The introductory essay by Ludwig Brandl - "A Short History of Ethnomedicine in Tropical Africa" - is in both English and German. Also includes essays on Les Plantes Magiques Senegalaise (in French) by Joseph Kerharo, The Fundamental Basis of African Traditional Medicine (in English) by Yaw Osei and much more. Bibliographies, photographs. 288 pp.