Search Results: Poetry from 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.

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.

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: Printed by by Hudson and Goodwin, for the Author, 1787. First edition.
Fragile binding somewhat rubbed; frontis a bit browned and stained, with some light scattered foxing throughought; in very good condition.
8vo (8 x 5 inches), original sheep, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 258, [12] pages, all edges stained green. Frontispiece portrait.
The early American epic that helped shape the Columbus "discovery" story into part of the evolving national identity, as well as a vision of the new nation's achievements and growth in both commerce and the arts.
The subscription list boasts at its head King Louis XVI of France, Washington, and Lafayette. This copy with leaf K4 excised by the publisher, as seen in a number of copies.
BAL 865; Stoddard & Whitesell 369; Evans 20220.

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."