Search Results: Healing and Alternative Medicine from Robert McDowell Antiquarian Books

Norwalk, Conn.: The Hour Publishing Co., 1902. Third edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. 204p. With frontispiece of the author. Bound in red publisher’s cloth. No dust jacket. Binding contains rubbing and wear to the extremities; spine caps are fraying; spine is lightly faded. Inner joints are neatly and professionally strengthened. Some creasing is present to the upper corner of the first five leaves and to page 129. Interior pages are otherwise clean. A spiritual and metaphysical approach to health. In the "Forward" the author refers to a law of suggestion and states: "If I have succeeded in showing you how, without hypnotic control, the involuntary mind can be influenced, and so co-ordinated as to insure a proper rebuilding of the cells which compose the organs of the body, thus practically making you a new creature, and so restoring you to perfect health, I shall have fulfilled all my desire…

New York / Boston / Philadelphia: William Radde and J.T.S. Smith / Otis Clapp / C.L. Rademacher, 1846. Hardcover. See Description. First U.S. Edition. Three tracts together - pp. 154, [2]; pp. 58, [2 blank]; pp. 66. Bound in period blind-stamped brown publisher’s cloth – rubbed. Neatly re-backed preserving the original spine. The corner tips and outer edges of the boards are professionally repaired; some cloth discoloration is visible on the bottom corner of each board. The interior contains occasional mild scattered foxing. Damp staining is present on the lower corner edges of the pages. A penciled inscription is lightly marked on the front free fly-leaf. Page 54 of Forbes’s tract contains a marginal corner crease and a lightly penciled note. The corner tip of the rear fly-leaf is chipped. William Henderson (1810-1872) was a distinguished British doctor and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He created a scandal by adopting the practice of homoeopathy.… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932. Hardcover. See Description. 11th printing. 8vo. (206mm). 158pp. Bound in maroon cloth with paper titles on the spine and on the front cover. No dust jacket. The binding is generally tight and clean but shows some minor wear to the rear cover. Fore-edges of the book block are a bit foxed and spotted. Interior pages are clean. Vash Young was a popular motivational speaker and an author during the Great Depression. His paternal great grandfather was a brother of Brigham Young [Wiki].Vash’s first book "A fortune to share" (first printed in August, 1931) became a best-seller in its day.