Authors starting with H from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

London:: n. p.,, 1611 [i.e. 1661].. First edition.. Final leaf detached (but present); a little light foxing and soiling; very good copy.. Small 4to, removed, [2], 13 pages. From early in the Restoration, on the need for religious liberty and toleration of the Roman Catholics. "It is a most false Proposition, and proceeded doubtless from Gall and Spleen, that *Roman Catholicks* are altogether unsociable, and that they cannot live with us, nor any sort of *Protestants,* in one Kingdome or Common-wealt... more information

[Cincinnati]:: Geo. A. Bauer & Co., Prs.,, [1890].. Perhaps a first edition, though the sole copy located on OCLC notes a Cincinnati imprint of Acme Printing Co.. A little soiled and worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 18 pages. A by-way in the infamous Ohio ballot-box hoax, which had been an attempt by one of Governor J. B. Foraker's supporters to tie Democratic challenger James Campbell to a shady financial interest in a ballot-box deal; the relevant document was proved... more information

Berlin:: Verlag von Julius Springer,, 1874.. Fourth edition (the first appeared in 1866), with a new foreword and revisions.. Somewhat rubbed and a bit browned; a little worming (not affecting text); still, a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary half roan, marbled boards, 109, [1] pages. Numerous illus. A manual and handbook for the use of the microscope. Nice early binder's ticket for Courier Book Binder, Ann Arbor, Mich. on the front paste-down. Early ownership signature in ink on the paste-down. ... more information

Boonville [N. Y.]:: n. p.,, 1878.. Old crease; some light wear and soiling; in very good condition.. Unbound bifolium printed on the first page only, approx. 5 x 4 inches. Autograph note in ink, approx. 50 words. An attractive little bit of promotional type and a glimpse into the Victorian ornamental hair business, with the notice printed on the first page reading in part, "Ladies who save their Hair Combings can have them straightened and made into Switches or some other useful and ornamental articl... more information

Geneva, N.Y.:: Printed by Ira Merrell,, 1838.. First edition.. Somewhat foxed; a trifle worn; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 24 pages. The president of Geneva College (later Hobart College) here lectures on education, ethics and law; he includes a footnote quoting from Calvin Stowe's recent report on education in Europe. American Imprints 50669. ... more information

St. Clairsville, O.:: Printed by Heaton and Gressinger,, 1846. First edition.. Calf rather rubbed, with some loss from the spine; scattered foxing and internal wear, including some tears and creasing to the front free endpaper; a good, sound copy.. Large 12mo, contemporary calf, black leather label, gilt lettering, 479, [1] pages. An extensive argument against Universalism from the Ohio-based evangelist, with much in the way of personal testimonies against the pernicious creed. Hall's writing also att... more information

Small 8vo, original printed wrappers, 7 pages. An extended metaphor on serving in God's print shop: "All proof must be corrected before the final 'lock-up' when the columns of our characters are emptied from the 'sticks' of habit into the galleys of our daily lives, and when these are transferred into the 'chases' of life's possbilities it is too late to correct the proof. Death with ponderous mallet drives the 'quoins' until the pulse stops beating and the eyes ... more information

London and New York:: Longmans, Green,, 1895. First edition.. Some scattered foxing; cloth a bit darkened; a very good copy.. 8vo, original gilt-stamped light brown cloth, black lettering. An attractive collection of literary essays from a lecturer in French at Unversity College, Liverpool. The bulk of the pieces cover French literature (Racine, Corneille, De Musset, Paul Bourget), though there are also essays on Swinburne, Keats and a fairly extensive look at the 18th century Jewish philosopher Solomon M... more information

New-York:: Leavitt, Trow and Company,, 1845. First edition.. Foxed; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, removed, 62 pages. On finding a middle ground in publishing (and editing) tracts so as not lead to denominational controversy; the synod of the New School Presbyterian Church had taken issue with the "mutilations" of the Tract Society's edition J. H. Merle D'Aubigne's history of the Reformation (one concern being that it was edited to reflect badly on infant baptism). Hallock becomes strange... more information

Wooster, O.:: Printed by the Wooster Republican,, 1881. First edition.. Stitching loose; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed, 23 pages. A splendidly partisan and lengthy speech from a long-time local resident, who professes to being unschooled but of sound patriotic stock and in favor of the election of Garfield. He also decries the perfidy of the Democrats, both locally and nationally. ... more information

Pittsfield, Mass.:: Press of the Sun Printing Company,, 1900. First edition.. Spine rather soiled and somewhat frayed along the edges of the boards; a little cracked along the gutter of the title page; a very good copy.. 8vo, original green cloth, 141 pages. Frontis portrait. A collection of miscellaneous sketches, poems and tales from a long-time contributor to the Springfield Republican and Godey's. Handselle includes her account of a psychic foreboding which led her to return hope early from a conc... more information

London:: A. & C. Black,, (1927).. First edition thus, illustrations reissued in Black's Popular Series with a revised text.. A trifle rubbed and bumped; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 182 + 2 pages. Frontis, 31 plates. Double-page map. Inman 574: "Most books in these series comprise text and illustrations from earlier colour books, mostly the 20s series. ... more information

Eau Claire, Wisc.:: [n. p.],, [ca. 1900-1910?].. First edition.. Some wear and fading; cloth samples in fine condition; a very good copy.. Trifold pamphlet, approx. 3-3/4 x 8-1/2 inches and heavy salmon stock. Six mounted fabric samples. An illustrated promotional item for men's suits from an Eau Claire clothier, "The Store for Thrifty People." With several cartoons and vignettes. Addressed in ink to a rural Wisconsin address, with a canceled one cent Franklin stamp. ... more information

Grand Rapids:: Zondervan Publishing Co.,, 1942. First edition.. Light damp-staining to the rear wrapper, some browning and light soiling; a very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 57 pages, wire stitched. The Evangelist Harding (author of such titles as Movie Mad America and Roads to Reno) draws on his experiences at Rescue Homes and in his ministry to warn against the dangers of dancing, which awakens the baser passions. "Often the dance furnishes the first step in crime in that some yout... more information

(Berwyn, Penna.:: A. Edward Newton,, 1928).. First edition, one of 950 copies.. Sides of the box lid broken; a fine copy in a good solid box.. 8vo, original blue quarter buckram, blue boards, printed paper label, 32, [8] pages. Illus. plus facsimiles. Original glassine and publisher's box. A presentation copy, fulsomely inscribed by Newton on a front blank. ... more information

(London:: Associated Newspapers,, 1936).. First edition.. Cheap newsprint browning, some fading and wear to the wrappers; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, original printed blue-green wrappers, 80 pages. Illus. The collected articles of a three-year campaign by Lord Rothermere's fascist-leaning popular newspaper to increase the might of Britain's air force. With much on Rothermere's own "Britain First" airplane, which he had constructed as a prototype for British bombers. The mania of conser... more information

8vo, original printed wrappers, [20] pages. Illus. Self-proclaimed anarchist Carl Harp was also known as the Bellvue Sniper and was an inmate at the Washington State Penitentiary; he and two other inmates took ten hostages during a prison uprising in 1979. This pamphlet takes a pro-Harp view, soliciting donations for his defense fund, etc. Harp was found hanged in his cell in 1981. With a brief clarifying note in ballpoint pen (likely editorial) on one page.... more information

New York:: Columbia University Press,, 1939. First edition.. Small line of discoloration to the front board; a trifle rubbed; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blue buckram, 503 pages. The massive and well-regarded Ph.D. thesis of the lawyer and historian Lawrence Harper, made possible in part by research assistants funded by the W.P.A. Neat ink signanture on the front free endpaper. ... more information

Norfolk, Va.:: J. W. Fatherly, Book and Job Printer,, 1872. First edition, ex-library with a small ink stamp at the head of the front wrapper and their withdrawn stamp on the inside rear wrapper.. Some slight sunning, staining and a little chipping; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed purple wrappers, 28 pages. A dissection of the question of a Union in the wake of the Civil War, Harris points out the seeming inconsistencies in the historical record of Massachusetts, alluding to its "states righ... more information

[Pittsburgh, Penna.:: n. p.,, 1846].. First edition.. A little light staining; some evidence on the verso that the broadside had been mounted; in very good condition.. Broadside, approx. 9-3/4 x 7-1/4 inches. A committee of prominent Pittsburgh citizens lauds the efforts of Isaac Harris in circulating the pubications of the American Temperance Union--"to our citizens--youth--families--sabbath schools--temperance societies--emigrants--travellers--boatmen--&c., &c., all over the West." The... more information