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  • 98 REASONS FOR BEING. by Dudman, Clare.
    Dudman, Clare.
    98 REASONS FOR BEING.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: Sceptre, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning author based on the life of "progressive nineteenth-century psychiatrist Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann, longtime superintendent of a Frankfurt insane asylum who is best remembered today as the author of 'Struwwelpeter', a set of cautionary tales for children published 160 years ago. . . A beautifully written, emotionally powerful biographical novel. " (ALA) Author's note, bibliography. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-340823062.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 92576
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  • THE LOONY BIN TRIP. by Millett, Kate.
    Millett, Kate.
    THE LOONY BIN TRIP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "the gripping personal account of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as a manic-depressive. Shockingly honest and compulsively readable,..[Millett] has the courage to show us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. A damning indictment of our system of mental institutions from the patient's perspective." A moving book by the author of 'Sexual Politics.' 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671679309.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39538
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  • Rogers, Rita S., M.D. and Mack, John E., M.D.
    THE ALCHEMY OF SURVIVAL: One Woman's Journey.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Addison-Wesley, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Both a biography and an autobiography, this collaboration tells the story of Rogers, who during the Holocaust was sent by the Nazis to a transport camp in the Ukraine, but managed to save her family from the death camps by posing as a foundry worker. Illustrated with photographs, index., notes. 238 pages. A title in the Radcliffe Biography series. ISBN: 0-201-126826.

    Condition: INSCRIBED by Rogers. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 21799
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  • BLACK ANGER. by Sachs, Wulf.
    Sachs, Wulf.
    BLACK ANGER.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Hardcover - A study of a South African medicine man, whom he called John Chavafambira -originally intended to be a psychoanalytic study, but one which became much more. Frontispiece drawing. 324 pp.

    Condition: Very good in black cloth.

    Book ID: 54671
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