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

New York:: John W. Lovell,, (1888).. First edition.. A few gatherings rather shaken; cloth a little spotted; a very good copy.. 8vo, pictorial terra-cotta cloth, gilt lettering. Illus. A tangled tale of diamond smuggling, bigamy, and local color around the mines of South Africa, with an almost obsessive fascination with miscegenation running as an undercurrent throughout. The "I. D. B." is an illicit diamond buyer, a class of traders upon whom the novel hinges. Hubin, Crime Fiction, page 362; Wr... more information

[Los Angeles?:: n. p.,, ca. 1930].. First edition.. Stained, somewhat creased and a bit soiled; a good, sound copy only of an ephemeral pamphlet. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 6 x 3-1/2 inches, [4] pages. All too soon, my entire body was helpless; all my joints became stiff and as hard as stones. This trouble caused my hair to fall out and, in addition, I was forced to wear glasses since I had lost the sight of one of my eyes." The wheelchair-bound widow is of course given a copy of Science and Health an... more information

[N. p.]:: Published by the Author; Available at Book Stores or Notre Dame Book Store, Winnipeg,, (1949).. Stated later edition of this fairly popular Protestant work, evidently first published in Toronto by the Canadian Protestant League.. Some discoloration to the front wrapper, a little wear and soiling; a very good copy.. 8vo, original pictorial drab wrappers, 143 pages. An anti-Catholic tract from a former priest, warning against Rome's undue influence in Canadian politics. With much on the conver... more information

8vo, original pictorial brown cloth, 213, [1] pages. Seven stories from this Finnish-born author (resident for a time in America), including the novella "Amerikaan," published at the fairly prolific "Workman's Press" in Hancock, Michigan. There was an edition of this title also published in Helsinki the same year. Tähtelä was executed in late 1919 by the White Army after being shot down as a Red Army pilot during the Russian Revolution. Early Seattle pencil ownership inscr... more information

Chicago:: Triple Link Mutual Indemnity Assocation,, [ca. 1896].. First edition.. Small stain to the title page; a little dust soiled; a very good copy.. 8vo, original self wrappers, 16 pages. Illus. On the orphanage in Lincoln, Illinois, dedicated in 1892 to the service of orphans of Odd Fellows. With a 4-page leaflet on insurance from the Triple Link Mutual Indemnity Association of Chicago laid in. ... more information

St. Clair, Michigan:: Published by the St. Clair Mineral Spring Co. (Limited),, 1882. First edition.. Cloth a bit rubbed; a very good copy.. 8vo, original elaborately gilt pictorial blue cloth over flexible boards, 82, [4] pages. Frontis, illus. Inserted folding engraved bird's-eye view (by the Calvert Lith. Co. of Detroit) of rail and water routes to St. Clair. An attractive promotional piece for this resort hotel, which had opened in 1881, and the entire St. Clair community. With a number of fine f... more information

London:: Illustrated London Library,, [ca. 1850-1862].. First edition, with later titles in this series noted in the ads as "in preparation.. Joints, corners and head and foot of spine a bit rubbed; a trifle shaken; a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary gilt-stamped red prize morocco, a.e.g., 324, [3] pages. Frontis, illus. With a prize presentation label on the front paste-down from Clapham Grammar School, with the signature in type of astronomer Charles Pritchard, who was headmaster there until 1862... more information

New York:: Liveright Publishing Corporation,, (1938).. First edition.. Spine sunned; a very good copy.. 8vo, original red cloth, 412 pages. Frontis portrait. Lacks dust jacket. ... more information

London:: Printed for R. Baldwyn,, 1681. First edition.. Stitching perished, with the gatherings loose; some soiling and wear; a good copy.. 4to, unbound, 40 pages. A pamphlet that deplores, among other things, the Popish drift of a number of recent publications. If this pamphlet was indeed written by Shaftesbury, political foe to Halifax and champion of the Exclusion Bill, it was no doubt published shortly before his arrest in July of 1681. He here attacks Charles on a number of points. With printed shoul... more information

Chicago:: Morrill, Higgins & Co.,, 1892. First edition.. Front free endpaper starting; cheap paper browning a little; a fine copy.. 8vo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, purple lettering. One of Saltus's more popular novels, a look at the Roman emperors, and one that perhaps best exemplifies his fin de siecle sensibilities and exotic eroticism. BAL 17147, printing 1 (sheets bulk 3/4 of an inch); Wright III, 4748... more information

Boston:: Printed by Crocker & Brewster,, 1826. First edition.. Title pages somewhat dust-soiled and darkened; a very good copy.. 8vo, unbound, stitched as issued, 40 pages, untrimmed. The sermon covers the qualifications needed to serve as a foreign missionary as well as the expected trials; appended are two short charges to the missionaries, from L. Ives Hoadley, from Worcester, Mass., and Isaac Knapp of Westfield, Mass. Small ink number stamped at the head of the title. American Imprints 24511. ... more information

New York:: Cater & Bro.,, 1899. First edition.. Rear hinge cracked, but sound; cloth just a trifle spotted; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, original gilt decorated maroon cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis, seven plates. Members of the upper-middle class come together in St. Louis and, in their efforts to promote social reform, end up reforming themselves. Includes a fair amount of local detail. Wright III, 925. ... more information

Battle Creek, Mich.:: B. Salisbury & Co.,, [ca. 1882-1890].. First edition.. Edges a little browned, a trifle worn and dust-soiled; in good condition.. Broadside handbill, approx. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Vignette. A promotional handbill for this medicinal vibrator, boasting closed-cell battery circuits ("Physicians can carry it from house to house fully charged with no danger of leaking") and a detailed list of its features keyed to the engraved view of the device. Price $10, address all orders to... more information

Indianapolis:: The Hollenbeck Press,, 1899. First edition of the author's only book. Frontis, five plates.. A couple small spots of rubbing; a fine copy.. 8vo, original black cloth, gilt lettering, 90, [2] pages. Verses from a resident of this small Indiana town on the National Road west of Indianapolis. Williamson writes movingly of Christmas in the old home, a brief, moderately uplifting lyric of life on the frontier ("Far out west went Ned and I, To a town so small in size, A man of wealth wou... more information

London:: Morgan and Scott,, 1907. First edition.. Somewhat rubbed; a trifle shaken; some soiling and foxing; a very good copy. Not found in the NUC.. 8vo, original red cloth, gilt lettering. Printed in Dublin, and evidently McCurry's first book, a collection of formal verses in such forms as the triolet, the rondeau, the sonnet, etc. ... more information

Boston:: Lee and Shepard,, 1866. First edition of the author's first book.. Cloth a bit rubbed and worn; some foxing and light staining; a very good copy.. 8vo, original green cloth, gilt lettering, 383 pages. Wright II, 784: "In the vicinity of the Passaic. ... more information

New York:: Welch, Fracker Company,, 1890. First edition.. Somewhat rubbed and soiled; a very good copy.. 8vo, original terra-cotta cloth spine, marbled boards, enameled inlay labels, 252, [4], xi pages. Frontis, illus. Observations on travel through Spain and North Africa. Includes a brief account of a bull-fight, along with an appendix on the antiquity of bull-fighting. ... more information

Madison, Wisconsin:: David T. Dickson, State Printer,, 1850. Some staining and general browning; a little wear; old light vertical crease; a good, sound copy.. 8vo, disbound (lacks front wrapper; plain rear wrapper present), 42 pages, unopened. The first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin delivers his inaugural address on the grand role of the university in the education of the new state, touching in part on the importance of its hybrid mission as a university and a normal school. AII (Wisconsin 18... more information

Des Moines:: F. W. Palmer, State Printer,, 1866.. First edition.. Wrappers edges somewhat browned; some light soiling and wear; a very good copy.. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 17 pages. And by what authority dare we declare that the loyal citizen of African descent, born upon our soil, shall, among 'all men,' be the soliltary exception to this truth [of enfranchisement]. He has worn our uniform, fought our battles, and proved true to the flag. We made him a freeman, an element of national power... more information

London:: Printed for John Stockdale,, 1790. First edition, nominally ex-library with the small HEH Bacon library stamp and withdrawn stamp at the foot of the paste-downs and a couple of leaves but no other library marks. Some general wear and rubbing; occasional light soiling and foxing; a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary tree calf (neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down and retaining the original endpapers), [1081]-1752, [8] pages, a.e.g. The first significant Sakespeare index and concordanc... more information