Search Results: Fiction from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, 1905. First edition.

Wrappers spotted and soiled and lightly creased, with a small chip at the foot of the spine; cheap pulp paper browned, but supple; in good to very good condition.

Original color pictorial wrappers (7 x 4.75 inches), 192 pages. Frontis, three plates.

A pot-boiler set in Mexico with a mysterious orphan, an assortment of robbers and bandits, disguises worthy of a cut-rate Shakespearean comedy, a kindly friar, and a villain who meets his fate between the jaws of a hungry shark.

Issued in a series published by Ogilvie of cheap novelizations of popular plays, with ads on the rear wrapper for 68 titles in that series, "for sale by Newsdealers and Booksellers everywhere, or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, to any address for 25 cents each, or any five books for $1.00."

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.

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,… Read More