ARTIFICIAL HEART., Cooley, Denton; Michael DeBakey; William DeVries; Robert Jarvik; Lyle Joyce; Willem Kolff; and others.

ARTIFICIAL HEART.
Cooley, Denton; Michael DeBakey; William DeVries; Robert Jarvik; Lyle Joyce; Willem Kolff; and others. Archive of 35 items relating to the development of an artificial heart and its implantation in humans, including 16 offprints, 5 books, 3 signed photographs, and other items. 1) The Texas tornado [cover title is Toward an artificial heart, with a painted cover portrait of Michael DeBakey], 1965, pp. 46-55, IN TIME magazine (issue of May 28, 1965); 2) Willem Kolff, An artificial heart inside the body, 1965, offprint; 3) Denton Cooley, First implantation of cardiac prosthesis for staged total replacement of the heart. April 1969, pp. 252-263, IN: Transactions. American Society for Artificial Organs. April 21-22, 1969. Volume 15, 1969. Original stiff printed wrappers (front wrapper creased with a short tear in the outer margin, small library stamp on front wrapper), 512pp. Overall very good. First edition; 4) Michael DeBakey et al., Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis: Preliminary experiments in animals with biventricular artificial heart, [May] 1969, offprint; 5) R. J. Hegyeli, ed. Artificial Heart Program Conference: National Heart Institute Artificial Heart Program. Proceedings, June 9-13, 1969. Washington 1969, 1129pp. Corners bumped. Otherwise fine. First edition; 6) Willem Kolff, The artificial heart: Research, development or invention, [October] 1969, offprint; 7) Denton Cooley, Domingo Liotta et al., Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement, [November] 1969, offprint. SIGNED BY COOLEY; 8) Thomas Thompson, The Texas tornado vs. Dr. Wonderful [cover title is A Bitter Feud: Two great surgeons at war over the human heart, with cover photo of the two surgeons' faces], pp. 62B-74, IN: LIFE (issue of April 10, 1969). Fine; 9) Willem Kolff, Artificial Organs. New York and Jerusalem 1976, 180pp. Three private firm stamps on endpapers and boards slightly bowed. Good. First edition; 10) Robert Jarvik, The total artificial heart, 1981, extract from Scientific American; 11) William C. DeVries and Lyle D. Joyce [illustrated by Frank Netter], The Artificial Heart. [CIBA] Clinical Symposia (vol. 35, no. 6), 1983, stiff wrappers, 32pp. Netter writes in the foreword, "I was thrilled when Dr. William DeVries asked me to portray this pioneering procedure graphically for posterity. As I became ever more deeply involved in the project, I was impressed by the years of persistent effort by which Dr. Kolff, Jarvik, DeVries and Joyce and their many associates had pursued this vision." Very fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOYCE; 12) William DeVries, Jeffrey Anderson, Lyle Joyce, Fred Anderson, Elizabeth Hammond, Robert Jarvik, and Willem Kolff, Clinical use of the artificial heart, 1984, pp. 273-278, IN: New England Journal of Medicine (February 2, 1984), whole issue in original printed wrappers (the overseas edition printed in England). Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOYCE; 13) DeVries, Anderson, Joyce, Anderson, Hammond, Jarvik, and Kolff, Clinical use of the artificial heart, 1984, offprint (from NEJM, item 8 above). Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOYCE; 14) Pierre Galletti, Replacement of the heart with a mechanical device: The case of Dr. Barney Clark, 1984, offprint; 15) Ross Wooley, Ethical issues in the implantation of the total artificial heart, 1984, offprint; 16) Fred Anderson, William DeVries, Jeffrey Anderson, and Lyle Joyce, Evaluation of total artificial heart performance, 1984, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOYCE; 17) Nathan Pace, Morris Matthews, and Theodore Stanley, Anesthetic management of the first permanent, orthotopic, prosthetic cardiac replacement (total artificial heart) in man, 1984, offprint. SIGNED BY PACE; 18) Jack Kolff et al., The artificial heart in human subjects, 1984, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JACK KOLFF; 19) O. Friedrick. One miracle, many doubts: A feat of heart surgery sharpens the debate over benefits and costs. Cover story (with cover portrait of DeVries holding the Jarvik-7 artificial heart) in TIME magazine. December 10, 1984; 20) S. F. Yared, G. S. Johnson, and William DeVries, Results of artificial heart implantation in man, 1986, offprint. SIGNED BY YARED; 21) J. Brent Mays, William DeVries et al., Clinical management of total artificial heart drive systems, 1988, offprint. SIGNED BY MAYS; 22) DeVries, The physician, the media, and the "spectacular" case, 1988, offprint. RUBBER STAMP SIGNATURE OF DEVRIES; 23) Anthony Gristina, William DeVries et al., Biomaterial-centered sepsis and the total artificial heart, 1988, offprint. SIGNED BY GRISTINA; 24) DeVries, The permanent artificial heart: Four case reports, 1988, offprint. RUBBER STAMP SIGNATURE OF DEVRIES; 25) Joanne Dobbins, Stephen Johnson, Calvin Cunin and William DeVries, Postmortem microbiological findings of two total artificial heart recipients, 1988, offprint. SIGNED BY DOBBINS; 26) William DeVries, Surgical technique for implantation of the Jarvik-7-100 total artificial heart, 1988, offprint. RUBBER STAMP SIGNATURE OF DEVRIES; 27) Calvin Cunin, Lyle Joyce, William DeVries et al., Infectious complications in four long-term recipients of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart, 1988, offprint. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CUNIN AND JOYCE; 28) Bill's heart: The troubling story behind a historic experiment [cover title is Bill Schroeder's Artificial Heart, with a color photograph of DeVries with his arm around Schroeder], pp. 33-43, IN: LIFE (issue of May 1985); 29) The Schroeder family with Martha Barnette, The Bill Schroeder Story: An Artificial Heart Patient's Historic Ordeal and the Amazing Family Effort That Supported Him. New York, 1987, dw, 383pp. First printing. Fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BARNETTE; 30) Jack Copeland et al., Early experience with the total artificial heart as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, 1988, offprint. SIGNED BY COPELAND; 31) 5 x 7 black and white photograph of Denton Cooley in a scrub suit looking at the viewer. SIGNED BY COOLEY; 32) 5 x 7 black and white photograph of Michael DeBakey in a business suit. SIGNED BY DEBAKEY; 33) 8 x 10 inch black and white photograph of William DeVries sitting at a desk in his scrub suit. SIGNED BY DEVRIES; 34) Dick Cheney and Jonathan Reiner, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey. New York 2013, dw, 344pp. First printing. Top of final 100 pages damp wrinkled. SIGNED BY CHENEY; 35) Shelley McKellar. Artificial hearts: The allure and ambivalence of a controversial medical technology. Baltimore, 2018. WITH A PRESENTATION CARD TIPPED IN: "Dear Bruce, You were so kind to read an entire draft of the book & provide terrific feedback. Thank you so much! I am lucky to have such generous colleagues. With great appreciation, Shelley."

This unique archive documents several critical steps in the development and implantation of total artificial hearts into humans. The archive includes significant background articles and several of the most important publications documenting various aspects of the earliest human artificial heart operations performed by William DeVries and Lyle Joyce, as well as Cooley's 1969 First implantation of cardiac prosthesis for staged total replacement of the heart, the first published report of an attempt to use an artificial heart in a human. DeBakey's Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis appeared shortly thereafter, reflecting his desire to claim priority for the technology that Cooley deployed without his permission. This tension led to the "feud" between the two Houston surgeons who had collaborated for almost two decades. The key stages in this controversial technological breakthrough are summarized in Westaby and Bosher, Landmarks in Cardiac Surgery (Oxford, 1997), 279-294. See also Shelley McKellar, Artificial Hearts: the Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medial Technology. Baltimore, 2018.