Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Lou Marchetti

Title: Terror Stalks the Night Nurse
Author: Blanche Y. Mosler
Publisher: Paperback Library (#51-188)
Published: 1963
Illustrator: Lou Marchetti


This is credited on the Lou Marchetti web site.




Monday, December 26, 2011

Barye Phillips

Title: Special Nurse
Author: Lucy Agnes Hancock
Publisher: Pocket Books (#692)
Published: 1950 (Pocket Books first edition)
Illustrator: Barye Phillips
Review available

He is credited on the back cover. Another cover of this same book can be found here.

"Darling!" A voice from the past greeted her. Pamela Ware spun around, her heart in her throat.
"You! Doctor Allen!" she whispered.
"Pete, to you, Pam. Just Pete."
"But what are you doing here?" she asked.
"Visiting," he smiled. "A guest like you."
"Oh!" was all Pam could say. Why had he come? She was trembling--her heart throbbed with a dull ache. Pamela Ware said she would never marry a doctor. But that was before she went on vacation; before the accident that gave her life into the hands of an unknown doctor. Afterward, nothing was quite the same. Her head still said "no" but her heart would not listen.

Harry Bennett

Title: Roxanne, Company Nurse
Author: Zillah K. Macdonald with Josie Johnson
Publisher: Berkley Highland (F1356)
Copyright: 1966
Illustrator: Harry Bennett
Review available

His signature is in the lower right-hand corner.

When pretty young Roxanne McRae gave up a glamorous post in a large New York hospital to become Assistant Nurse at the Hudson Sugar Refinery--a job with broad responsibility for the welfare of a big company--she did not realized she would be plunged into--
Danger--the hazards of a huge plant wehre safety measures are few and injuries many and terrible...
Romance--with Anthony Polk, young general manager--handsome, charming, and sometimes infuriating...
Intrigue--when the accident rate at the plant rises suddenly, Roxanne decides to play detective and finds herself caught in a mysterious and FRIGHTENING SITUATION...

Saturday, December 24, 2011

D. Rickard

Title: His Wife the Doctor
Author: Joseph McCord
Publisher: Harlequin (#13)
Copyright: 1949
Illustrator: D. Rickard
Review available

The illustrator's signature is on the back of the doctor's clipboard.

Serenity Dale, M.D., was firmly established in the city as a Doctor, with an enviable reputation for her skill and hard work. Married to Maury Parrish, a thus far unsuccessful novelist, Serenity was trying hard to prove her theory that marriage and medicine could be happily and profitably combined. All might have gone well had she not accepted, against her own wishes, a position as head of a private hospital, for it was then that her difficulties really began. Before she realised what was happening, Maury was seeking inspiration elsewhere, and she became involved in profesisonal troubles of her own. Fortunately Serenity was a skillful enough doctor and a good enough wife to make her own prescription work, after she was shocked into a realisation of the problem with which she was confronted.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Fred Pfeiffer

Title: Shoreline Nurse
Author: Jeanne Bowman
Publisher: Pyramid Books (T-2392)
Published: 1971
Illustrator: Fred Pfeiffer
Review available

He is credited as "Pfeiffer" on the back cover.

Boarding the trawler that was to take her to her new home, Lorina Rodgers wondered if she had made the right decision. Was she crazy to leave her safe and hectic job at the mainland hospital to become the only nurse of this isolated, starkly beautiful island? Old Benjamin Jones, the island’s wealthy and crotchety owner, had been curiously intent on persuading the pretty young nurse to take the assignment. Lorina knew the island needed her, but she suspected that the cantankerous old man had another card up his sleeve—finding the right wife for his handsome, blond, and equally stubborn grandson. Before long, Lorina found herself caught in a tangle of island politics and deepening love that forced her to choose between her duty as a nurse—and her life as a woman.

Thanks to The Pfeiffer Pfiles for their help in identifying the illustrator.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Dave Attie

Title: Nurse into Woman
Author: Marguerite Mooers Marshall
Publisher: Bantam (#464)
Published: December 1948
Illustrator: Dave Attie

He is credited inside the book.

“I’m a nurse, not a woman,” said Kristine. “I’ve resolved never to marry—never to have a child. I’m a good nurse—I’ll stay one. I’m not going to be a woman.” But to Captain Jim Dudley, whose life she had saved, and woman to be loved. Which would win—the nurse or the woman?

Tom Miller

Title: When Doctors Marry
Author: Elizabeth Seifert
Publisher: Dell (D428)
Published: June 1961 (first printing)
Illustrator: Tom Miller
Review available

He is credited on the back cover.

When Dr. Cannon Penrod read about the appointment of Dr. Corliss Walker as resident surgeon to the Memorial Hospital staff—the first woman ever to receive such an appointment—he could not believe that a woman exposed to so much pain and suffering could have feelings of her own—womanly feelings. A freak accident was to bring the two doctors together, and Dr. Penrod would learn that Dr. Corliss Walker was truly a woman—a woman almost too pretty to be a doctor, a woman who wanted to love a man, who wanted to have her own baby, even to know her own sorrow and hurt for someone she loved and who belonged to her. Dr. Walker was a woman who wanted to love a man, but not just any man …