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First and only edition. Rare Texana and history of medicine/psychiatry. Brown cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 7 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches, 234 pp., b/w illustrations (frontispiece protected by tissue leaf; plus four others). About good (edgewear, with focal erosion of cloth with exposure of board at upper tips and upper edges; focal staining of front board and bottom edges with white paint; front and back gutters cracked, and the front is fragile; previous owner's ink-stamped name and address, Tyler, Texas, on front endpapers --- attractive antique font; mild uniform browning of pages). A fascinating look at life in the North Texas Hospital for the Insane from the point of view of a patient, at the height of the Asylum Movement. Rare in any condition. (3214033).