Search Results: AIDS from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Collins Harvill, London, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Gray coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, being a reproduction of Ricardo Cinalli's work "Premonition II" with red coloured titles to the front panel and red and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of the author and his partner Roger Horwitz to the rear dustwrapper panel. On October 22, 1986, Paul Monette's partner Roger Horwitz died from the complications of AIDS, 19 months and 10 days after his initial diagnosis. This book is a very personal memoir of that initial diagnosis, medical treatments, ailments and hospitalisations of Roger Horwitz until his final blindness and death. As the front panel blurb says "It is a story told quite without sensationalism, a cry from an angry, pained heart that makes it impossible for anyone to go on thinking that this calamity is a matter of "us" against… Read More

Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Foreword by Larry Kramer, introduction by editor and permissions. Photographic paperback binding with gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. "A landmark collection of the most important writing on AIDS and its catastrophic social, cultural, political, and economic implications. No other single volume brings together such a broad range of writing on the pandemic." – from the rear panel blurb. The first article is by Lawrence K. Altman, dated July 3, 1981, detailing 'Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals'; to the last article dated June 25, 2002 by Mark Schoofs titled 'Infected Cells: As HIV Hits Russia, Crux of the Problem Is Jail'. Other authors include Edmund White, Stephen Jay Gould, Fran Leibowitz and Susan Sontag. Minor creasing of the book corners with the front panel just starting to curl. Some rubbing of the book panels. Age toning of… Read More