Hollyouth Exercise Guide To Longer Youth With Instructive Inscription
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“Forty minutes! How many persons do you imagine would work by themselves for forty minutes daily at any form of exercise, even to save their lives?” — Bradford Dorr’s doctor responding to his pitch for the Hollyouth exercise program.
Longer Youth and Four Who Won It by Bradford Dorr. Hollyouth Publishing Company. 1946.
An unusual health and medical guide purporting to offer longer youth through the author’s Hollyouth exercise program. Taken from the words Hollywood and Youth, Bradford Dorr — former president of Investment Trust Analyst, Inc — claimed that his routine started as a set of exercises practiced by California actors which he subsequently refined through private scientific research and stolen selections from “the Yogi cult”.
Although the Hollyouth exercises are described, most of the book is devoted to Dorr’s research and theories on aging. In addition to providing biographical sketches of four long lived historical figures, Dorr claims to have defied medical experts with his own recovery from various stress induced ailments. Though Dorr clearly intended to place himself in the same company as Thomas Parr, the purported 152-year-old Englishman who died in 1635, he did himself and his program the disservice of dying 12 years after its publication at age 77.
This copy, inscribed to one Dr. and Mrs. Walton, includes a personal dedication and three pages of instructive notes concerning the exercises youth and effectiveness written by Dorr’s widow. She has also seen fit to cover over all publishing information with a sticker of her mailing address.
8vo, 391pp + 2 errata, green cloth boards with title and author gilt to spine. Shelfcocked, small bruise to lower front board edge, wear to corners and spine ends, small scratch to mid spine face. Four page presentation inscription dated 1970 from Mrs. Lucile Dorr to Dr. and Mrs. Walton running from first free endpaper to opposite half-title. Annotations to table of contents indicating important chapters as well as which of the photographs were taken by Mrs. Dorr herself. Publishers information similarly pasted over with Mrs. Dorr’s mailing address stickers. Pages toned but clean. Printed pictorial dustjacket, price clipped, with wear to edges. Small chips missing from top wrap edge at spine and front and back faces. Very good in a good condition.
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