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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The miser and enthusiast : a novel
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Autograph letter signed. Moral advice to his son, aged 10. (1 page and addressed cover)
mssShapiro
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Manuscripts
1 item: 15-pp. transcript of interview with Dale Armstrong, whose father worked at Los Angeles Times on the political beat, while Dale was a press agent, later a radio broadcaster at KHJ, employed by Los Angeles Times for about four years. Some material relates to the motion picture industry and Los Angeles Times coverage of it, plus the Hays Office (moral watchdogs).
mssLAT
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Rare Books
"Famous Dr. Barnard's latest operation is to transplant himself from surgeon to storyteller--and the prognosis is not nearly as ghastly as one might have feared. During the first half of this well-intentioned book, as ethical hero Dr. Charles de la Porte faces a malpractice suit and rampant ostracism because he decided not to tell patient Janice Case (a fellow M.D.) that she has inoperable cancer, events move along professionally enough in the South African urban setting--albeit with rather too much ponderous pondering ("Why did the background to his own agony have to be the sounds of riots in which children were made the victims of two sets of intransigence?"). Unfortunately, when a flashback takes over to reveal Charles' secret past involvement with Janice, so do the cliches: Janice, young rebel reed-student type, lured stodgy but infatuated Charles into helping her hide a black fugitive from the pigs--and Charles' jealous wife died in a car crash, maybe suicidally. Back in the present, Barnard stitches in his second Big Moral-Medicine Question--euthanasia--as dying Janice silently begs Charles to pull her plug (he does so, then changes his mind, too late). The familiar issues here--South-African political as well as medical--are handled with careful balance, but Dr. Barnard has nothing remarkable to add; perhaps he should have applied his modicum of narrative ability to the moral ramifications of heart transplants, about which less has been written and about which he probably knows something we don't."--Kirkus
655510
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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
priHEL
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Manuscripts
A treatise against the practice of imprisoning debtors, arguing from religious, moral,economic, and historical grounds, citing both natural and civil law, and framed in the conceit of a petition to Queen Anne and Parliament for legislative redress. Argued chiefly from the perspective of those imprisoned in the Marshalsea prison.
mssHM 72022