From the shop that scours the globe for collectible Harriet Lane Handbooks, this is among the earliest volumes I have found.
Condition Notes:
Superior vintage condition. As photographed: some expected cover scuffs and soiling, bent corners, including one wrinkle. Inked inside the front cover and on the title page: “Mina Wang 1970.” In marker, on the text block: “WANG.” A few dogears. Else, excellent. Free from notes or highlights. No tears. Very clean for its age.
Volume Notes:
Ice blue softcover. 264 pages. Prepared by The Harriet Lane Service and the Community Pediatric Service of the Children’s Medical and Surgical Center of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Yearbook Medical Publishers, Chicago, 1969. Edited by Jerry A. Winkelstein, M.D., and Herbert M. Swick, M.D. Image of the Singer-Hastings Nomogram present. Fold-out Denver Developmental Screening Chart present.
ISBN: 0815149107 / 9780815149101
~5.25x4in
The following is an excerpt from “Pocket ‘Pearls’” by Karen Blum, Hopkins Medicine – Fall 2020: “By the late 1960s, Robert Cooke, then the director of pediatrics, decided the book should be commercially published in a softcover format. The fifth edition from 1969 (and subsequent ones) included drawings by Baltimore illustrator Aaron Sopher, who was often seen sketching throughout the former Harriet Lane Home and children’s hospital.”
source: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2020/09/pocket-pearls
