Titles starting with E from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

New York and London:: Harper & Brothers,, 1898. First edition.. Just a slight touch of rubbing at the head and foot of the spines; offset to endpapers from old (no longer present) jacket. A fine copy.. 8vo, original red- and gilt-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering. Unopened. Letters from the Harper's editor Curtis to his teacher at Brook Farm. ... more information

The short life and early death of a young Ohio Methodist, intended no doubt for a younger audience; Althea Hannah Williams was born in Geauga county, Ohio, on November 20, 1847, moved with her family to Chagrin Falls at an early age, and died in March, 1857. To judge from this account, Althea was of course preternaturally gifted both intellectually and morally, but amid the didactic pious content one finds much detail of the daily life of a bright young girl of the period, including a list of a number of th... more information

8vo, unbound stitched pamphlet (no wrappers), 20 pages. A perhaps surprisingly affectionate sermon delivered against suicide. Also includes an extract from Fleetwood against suicide, as well as Montgomery's poem "The Grave." Per the catalogue entry at the AAS, "Attributed to Thaddeus Mason Harris in Sprague, William B., Annals of the American pulpit, v. 8, p. 220." American Imprints 25312.... more information

[Boston:: n. p.,, ca. 1901-1910].. First edition.. Wrappers detached and chipped (rear wrapper split in half); somewhat chipped and worn; a fair copy of an ephemeral item.. Approx. 12-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches, original printed pink wrappers, [12] pages. Raising funds for a charity home for Protestant women, with numerous ads for local businesses; the pamphlet includes a detailed history of the home drawn largely from the late Miss Burnap's journals. Stored folded for a number of years, with a horizontal cre... more information

Boston:: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press,, (1918).. Stated second edition, greatly expanded from Brown's earlier Indian Legendary Poems (New York 1912), which included only four Indian-related legends.. Some occasional browning and offset from laid-in clippings; a fine copy.. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 264 pages. Frontis portrait. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper and signed by Brown, dated 1927. Some twenty-five poems based on Indian legends, based o... more information

Benton Harbor, Mich.:: House of David,, 1915.. First edition of Book II of this two-part series. . Wrappers somewhat sunned and soiled and a bit loosened from the text block; some general light wear and soiling; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers, [2], 33, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of Benjamin. An argument that political alcohol prohibition and the temperance movement does away with individual choice, which is inimical to personal self conscience and self judgment. Benjamin closes ... more information

Manchester:: George Sims,, 1853. First edition. (The copy at the British Library catalogued as 1852 and attributed to John Robertson appears miscatalogued.). A little browned; stitching a trifle loose; a very good copy.. 8vo, removed, 16 pages. On educational reform and the need for a national educational system. Attribution taken from the entry for the surgeon and social reformer Roberton in the DNB; Roberton did not help future bibliographers by publishing a pamphlet of the same title under the pseudony... more information

8vo, original self wrappers, 7 pages. Utica antiquarian Darling here produces a poem in the voice of the Egyptian obelisk that had been mounted--with full Masonic ceremony in late 1880--in Central Park as a token of esteem from Egypt's Khedive. While the poem itself is not without merit, the true wonder of the pamphlet is Darling's scrupulous listing of his membership in 29 learned societies.... more information

St. Louis:: Printed at St. Louis for private circulation by an old friend of Dr. Francis Lieber,, 1872. First edition.. In fine condition.. 8vo, one sheet folded to make four pages, unbound, 3 pages of text. Collects two of Lieber's poems written in German, one written in 1843, the other in 1842. Small library duplicate stamp on the rear blank. ... more information

Wilson, Alberta:: Hutterischen Brüdern,, 1953.. Cloth somewhat spotted; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary navy blue spine, black cloth sides, ruled ledger-paper endpapers, 189 pages. An early and important Hutterite tract, first published in 1652 and republished only sporadically by the Hutterites after their emigration to North America in the late 19th century, and one of the best statements of this Anabaptist communal society's principles (including the ideas of simplicity and a commun... more information

(Alhambra, California:: El Molino Mills,, 1953.). First edition.. A few marginal ink notations; some light soiling; in very good condition.. Small publisher's pictorial blue cloth ring binder (approx. 7 x 5 inches), illus. With intact publisher's postcard mailer and carob candy ad. A relatively early California health food cookbook from these millers of whole grains; includes directions on making your own bean sprouts, cooking vegetarian dishes with gluten or soy, whole grain bread recipes, the pr... more information

(Alhambra, California:: El Molino Mills,, 1953.). First edition?. A trifle rubbed and soiled; in very good condition.. Small publisher's pictorial blue cloth ring binder (approx. 7 x 5 inches), illus., printed on tan paper. With the publisher's carob candy ad and list of distributors. A relatively early California health food cookbook from these millers of whole grains; includes directions on making your own bean sprouts, cooking vegetarian dishes with gluten or soy, whole grain bread recipes, the... more information

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1912).. First separate edition.. Cloth a trifle sunned; a fine copy.. Small 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 31 pages. Suffrage activism handled in a not unkindly manner, a light dialect story on a woman running for mayor--and expecting what she hopes will be a daughter. Smith, American Fiction 1901-1925, D-98. ... more information

London:: Printed by G. Scott for J. Robson and B. Law,, 1770. First edition in English of Bielfeld's Les premiers traits de l'erudition universelle, first published in French in Leyden in 1767.. Somewhat rubbed and worn, with a few of the joints cracked (but cords holding); foxed; a good, sound set.. 3 vols, 8vo, contemporary calf, red morocco labels, gilt lettering, [xvi], 445; [2], ii, 443, [2] plus folding plate of music; [2], ii, 444 pages. Intended as an encyclopedic treatment of learning, w... more information

Boston:: Published by Cummings and Hilliard,, 1818. Stated second edition; the first appeared in 1816.. Some rubbing; some internal browning; a very good copy.. 12mo, contemporary (likely original) tree calf, black leather label, gilt lettering, 202 pages. An early edition of this standard American text on logic from the Harvard professor (and father of the Transcendenalist Frederic Hedge). Rear free endpaper neatly excised. ... more information

Cincinnati:: Chronicle Office, Print.,, 1840.. First edition.. Wrappers somewhat soiled and a bit worn, some light splitting along the spine; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 31 pages. Inserted fold-out chart. A comprehensive report on the state of the Common Schools in Cincinnati, including a look at the choice of text books. With mention of the impending problem of finding enough German-language teachers to deal with the influx of German-speaking immigrants. The fold-out chart i... more information

London:: Printed for John Joseph Stockdale,, 1807. First edition.. Title page a bit soiled; a trifle worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, disbound, 13 pages + 2 pages of ads. A poem written to commemorate Pitt, who had died in 1806; this title was erroneously attributed to Canning. ... more information

[Greenwich, Mass.:: John Howe, Printer?,, 1803?].. First edition.. Some light foxing and dust-soiling; a fine copy.. 12mo, unbound sheets stitched, [12] pages, untrimmed. Unopened. Three melancholy poems from an early 19th century American woman author and some measure of the contemporary toll of child mortality: "On the Death of Mr. Ranslure Clark who Died of the Putred fever Oct. 26, 1802. in the eighteenth year of his age," "On the Death of Daniel Clark who died Feb. 4th 1803. In the Nin... more information

16mo, original printed orange wrappers, [29] pages. Here, that first sublime Drama of the Progress of Humanity has reached the last scene of its fifth Act on the Pacific coast." An address from the American positivist and a scarce relic of an ambitious Western free-thought experiment. The noted free-though editor and activist Wakeman took a position as a professor at Liberal University and would eventually become president of this short-lived radical college in Silverton; the institution, which folded ... more information

Mulhouse, Alsace:: [Dollfus-Mieg & Cie.],, [n.d., ca. 1920-1930?].. Stated third issue of the English edition.. Boards somewhat rubbed and soiled; title page a bit soiled; a good, sound copy.. Oblong 16mo, original printed yellow boards, [2], 1-82, [2], 83-92, [10 leaves of glassine patterns], [34] pages. Illus. A popular pattern book for embroidery, with ads for Dollfus-Meig threads, this issued in a Marshall, Field & Co. binding. One glassine pattern detached along its perforation (but laid in).... more information