Resultados de búsqueda: Libros de Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

Hillsdale, Mich.: Published by the Author, 1871. Second edition; the first appeared in 1869. Front free endpaper excised. Light foxing throughout, cloth a bit bumped and rubbed; a very good copy. 8vo (8 x 5.5 inches), original green cloth, gilt lettering, 216 pages. This edition printed in Lansing by W. S. George & Co. Generally verses of piety and sentiment, with several on rural life and a few in general terms on the Civil War. Cf. Davis & Joyce 4662.

Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim, 1856 First edition.. Spine sunned, with a spot of fading or staining to the rear board and some light sunning and bumping to the edges and corners; a couple of gatherings just a bit sprung, some light soiling and spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue-green cloth, gilt spine, 300, 12, 48 pages. Frontis, five plates by Frederick M. Coffin. A satirical novel poking fun at abolitionists and suffragists, with digressive attacks on progressive authors, spiritualists, and domestic upheaval of all stripes. Wright II, 2020, this copy including the 48-page promotional excerpt of the Wanzer, McKim novel The Montgomerys (including its separate title page) at the end. Front blank excised.

Chicago Open Court Publishing 1894 First edition.. Slight scratch to the front board; coated endpapers a trifle spotted; a fine copy.. 8vo, original purple cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. With Trumbull's pseudonym "Wheelbarrow" at the head of the title. Arguments on questions of national economics from the man who had worked as a railroad laborer before becoming a lawyer and state legislator: "While aspiring to more intellectual and higher work, his sympathies with the laboring classes never waned." This copy with a cancel title.

Philadelphia: Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1836. First edition. Cloth sunned and a bit spotted, label somewhat rubbed; some light foxing; in good to very good condition. 12mo (7.38 x 4.75 inches), original patterned rose cloth, gilt lettered leather spine label, 153, [1] pages. Many of these examples of youthful verses were written while the author was a student at West Point (including an anecdote of a classmate with a dislocated jaw), where he graduated in 1831.

Hartford, Conn.: Published by Subscription Only, Hartford Publishing Co., 1869. First edition. Light damp-stain to the lower corners of the leaves in the latter quarter of the book, some light soiling; in very good condition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), recent half leather and marbled sides, 524 pages. Frontis, 13 plates (including a map). An account of travel in the West subsequent to the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad from the editor of the Springfield Republican, an expanded follow-up to his 1865 Across the Continent. Flake-Draper 768: "Devotes several chapters to Mormonism." Nice early ink stencil on a front blank for C. Parsons, a Saline, Mich., dry goods and clothing store.

New York: n. p., 1833. First edition. Cloth somewhat sunned, boards a little bumped; cloth frayed at the head of the spine; some light dust-soiling; in good condition. 12mo (8 x 5 inches), original cloth, spine stamped in gilt, [viii], 172 pages.


A private publication of short literary pieces (criticism, an account of a dream, imaginary dialogues) and verses, collected for the friends and family of a New York lawyer who died in April, 1833 at the age of 25. Printed by Sleight & Van Norden, who are also noted as copyright holders. American Imprints 19699.

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; Toronto: Cooper & Beatty, (1967). First edition in English. Jacket a little soiled and worn; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Original blue cloth (9.5 x 5.88 inches), 94 pages. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations throughout. Original printed white dust jacket. "Around the campfires of typographers Typographische Gestaltung has become the underground book of the century." The first appearance in English of the landmark 1935 book from the German designer, first published in German in Basel, this translation with a brief added prefatory note in English from Tschichold.

New York: Huntington Press, (1933). First edition.
Some foxing and light wear; in very good condition.. 8vo, original pictorial buckram, 204 pages. Illus. by Paul Honore. No dust jacket.
A presentation copy, with a characteristic ink drawing by Lee, signed both by Lee and his wife (with a sentiment) on the front free endpaper.
A collection of much cowboy verse; as Courtney Riley Cooper notes in the preface, "With his wife, Kittie Lee, strumming a chorded obligato to their original songs of the West, 'Powder River' Jack is an integral part of every rodeo and stampede where the 'Cow Gang' gathers."

Pittsburgh: Published by R. Patterson & Lambdin, 1818. An early Pittsburgh edition and a later American edition of this 18th century account of a Scottish surgeon's meditations aboard a British man of war. Small flaw in one leaf, with loss of several letters. Some chipping and cracking at the head of the spine, with some wear to the label and corners; foxing; a very good copy. 12mo, contemporary tree calf, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 254, [8] pages. This appears to be an early publication from the combined efforts of Patterson and Lambdin (the partnership dissolved in bankruptcy in 1823); Patterson had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1810 (indeed, publishing a 266-page edition of the Meikle in 1815), and Lambdin had been publishing in Pittsburgh since 1817. After joining forces in 1818, they appear to have sunk considerable energy into reprinting Meikle, publishing separately that year five of his titles as well as a four volume edition of his works. In any event, Patterson's… Leer más

New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. Light damp-stain along the upper edge of the frontispiece and text block; some general wear and soiling; in good condition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: "He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817, and became closely associated with Benjamin Lundy, in the Union Humane Society; one of the country's first anti-slavery societies; later giving financial support to Lundy's Genuis of Universal Emancipation." The biographical sketch here includes much on Genin's abolitionist efforts. This volume also collects Genin's early poetical work, the Napolead--a blank-verse epic which, in the words of William Cooper Howells (father of the novelist Wm. Dean Howells) was published because Genin "had money enough to spare in printing a book that was never to… Leer más

Boston: William White & Company, 1869. First edition. Cloth sunned, with boards and spine nearly completely turned tan; some light wear, with fraying at the head and foot of the spine; a little light foxing; in very good condition. 8vo (7.5 x 5.13 inches), original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering on the spine, 325, [1], 8 pages. "Moreover, finally, and in short: he found that, by this mysterious and immutable law of phreno-electrotyping, so to call it, which is outwrought on the sensitive surfaces of, and by the means of the psycho-dynamical forces at work within the unborn brain, the offspring could, and absolutely does, mentally inherit a predisposition to particular vices and crimes, as easily as to be born with cross-eyes, red-hair, far-sightedness, stammering, deafness and dumbness, cutaneous diseases, scrofula, and consumption." A crime novel from the clairvoyant free-love mesmerist Davis, using the developing tropes of the detective novel to dramatize his Spiritualist-inflected ideas… Leer más

Manchester [etc.]: Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co., Guardian Printing Works, [ca. 1912]. First edition. Boards somewhat darkened, slightly soiled and rubbed; some light foxing and soiling; a good to very good copy. 8vo (9.75 x 6.5 inches), original decorated brown glazed parchment over beveled boards, 70 pages. Mounted plates included in the pagination. A lovely and elaborate promotional work and specimen for the industrial printing firm, views of the plant and equipment, examples of illustration techniques, decorative borders in use, specimens for typefaces and ornaments, amenities for the union workers, etc.

Boston: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1842. A later printing of this first American translation of the Godfrey (the first appearing in 1841) and the expanded dictionary.. Cloth generally sunned; small chip to the spine, and a bit frayed at the head and foot; label somewhat rubbed; some occasional light foxing; a good copy.. Large 8vo (9.63 x 6 inches), original ribbed brown or perhaps purple cloth, printed paper label on spine, 135, [1]; xc pages. Printed music in the text. A work known perhaps for its superfluity of necessary detail. The appended Universal Dictionary of Musical Terms: Taken in Part from Dr. Weber's Vocabulary of Italian Words and Phrases, but Chiefly Furnished from Other Sources, and Adapted to the Condition and Wants of this Country, by James F. Warner has a separate title page, and includes a new preface dated April 1, 1842, noting that the dictionary "has been enlarged, however, in the proportion of about three to one. . . . The additions made by the American editor are… Leer más

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a notorious tenement and headquarters for gangs (cf. Scorsese); the Methodist mission erected a new building on the site in 1850 and began their work in the area to provide jobs, schooling, and medical care in addition to their preaching. This account, from several women who give only their initials, includes the expected tales of conversion--but also provides some glimpse of the lives of urban poor blacks and Irish immigrants, including a disapproving account of an Irish wake: "I succeeded at last, much to my joy, in breaking up… Leer más

(Hot Springs, Ark.: A. J. Whitworth, M. D.; Press of S. C. Toof & Co., Memphis, 1913). First edition.. Some minor rubbing and wear; some light spotting; a very good copy.. 8vo, original black-stamped red cloth, 189 pages. Two inserted portraits. A collection of receipts for various maladies, including venereal complaints, compiled by two Hot Springs doctors. Whitworth is perhaps best remembered for his published fulminations against the osteopath bathrobe evil. Atwater 3773.1.

New-York: Leavitt, Lord & Co. 180 Broadway; Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1836. First edition.. Spine and edges somewhat rubbed, with a little chipping to the label; some light foxing and soiling; a good to very good copy.. 12mo (7.63 x 4.5 inches), original blue-green cloth spine, drab boards, printed paper label, 225, [1] pages. The horse at the cider-mill; the mules in the press-room of the American Tract Society; and the watchman who walks his drowsy round until he falls asleep; are not the only beings that spend their lives in traversing a circle." The tale of a young man from modest circumstances who after a college education decides the world owes him a living; inevitably, he concludes the tale back at his father's wheelwright shop with sweat on his brow from honest labor. The political journalist and sometime novelist Stone does not exactly wear his own learning lightly here, though the occasional satirical jabs are pleasant enough. Wright I, 2510. Pencil ownership signature of A. Almendorf,… Leer más

Philadelphia: Published by Abel C. Thomas, John Richards, Printer, 1835. First edition.. Spine head and corners just a trifle frayed; spine and board edges sunning; some light general soiling; a very good copy.. 12mo (7.13 x 4.38 inches), original watered rose cloth, printed paper spine label, 180 pages. Eddy, Universalism in America, 812; American Imprints 30185.

Leipzig: n. p., 1914. First edition. Titling added to the spine in early ink and pencil autograph. Endpapers a bit browned, parchment binding a trifle soiled; in very good condition.. Small 8vo (6.25 x 5 inches), original embossed parchment over boards, [64] pages on laid paper, untrimmed. A presentation copy, inscribed in autograph ink in a fine hand on the dedication page and signed by Schiller.A collection of examples of types designed by Schiller (1858-1937), the sometime imperial punchcutter, commercial type designer, and instructor at the Akademie für das Buchgewerbe in Leipzig, the examples ranging from his blackletters Borussia and Lyrisch, to the 1903 typeface Germania, and his antique typeface Venetia. Includes borders and ornaments.

New York: William Wood & Co., 1870. Third edition, substantially revised. Spine and portions of the boards slightly sunned, some light bumping at the head and foot of the spine; the slightest hint of cracking to the coated paper along the front hinge, but quite sound; in very good condition. 12mo (7.5 x 5 inches), original purple cloth, gilt lettering, 120 pages, title stamped in gilt on the upper board but no notice of the edition. No evidence of a frontispiece. No copyright notice on the verso of the title page. "The vice of masturbation is undoubtedly the chief cause. The growth of the sexual apparatus at the period of puberty is accompanied by abundant secretion of the seminal fluid, which accumulates in the reservoirs. The sexual instinct, then fully developed, exerts a powerful influence over the mind, whilst the reason is not in a sufficiently matured state to correct the mirages of the imagination. An accidental friction of the erect organ in these moments of delirium makes the unfortunate… Leer más

St. Louis: Published at the Office of "Edwards's Monthly," a Journal of Progress, (1860). First edition. Cloth somewhat rubbed, a few plates just a trifle shaken; a very good copy.. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped gilt pictorial blue cloth, [49]-604, [32] pages, a.e.g. Frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text. Midland Notes 82: "Recounts the activities of the fur-trader, Joseph Philbert (p 298 to 302), and the important Ashley-O'Fallon letters (p 333-336)," the latter of which concern the Arikara war. An extensive and interesting subscription doorstop history of St. Louis, with much information on early settlers and events. Howes E-69; Sabin 21987. This copy with the Gleason Library bookplate on the front pastedown and the characteristic small ink accession number on the verso of the title page, but no other evident library marks. With the publisher's presentation inscription to a Miss Annie Deved of Phillips Port, N. Y. on the form on the verso of the frontispiece, signed… Leer más