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

8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 61 pages (plus integral leaves mounted on the versos of the wrappers). Illus. Popular lectures on the orders of classical columns from this architect and instructor at the School of Decorative Arts in Vienna. OCLC notes four locations (MiU + four in Germany).... more information

Padova:: Coi Tipi della Minerva,, 1836. First edition thus.. Wrappers spotted and dust-soiled; slightly edge-worn, some scattered foxing; a very good copy. Not found in the NUC under the title.. 8vo, original pictorial tan wrappers, 31 pages. A poem published to celebrate a couple's wedding. ... more information

[Mexico City]:: Impreso en Madrid, y reimpreso en Mejico oficia de D. Mariano Ontiveros,, 1821. First Mexican edition.. Damp-stained throughout, with some evidence of a couple spots of bloom; a good, sound copy. OCLC notes four locations.. 8vo, recent green buckram, [4], 27 pages. Andrade Catalogue 3265; Medina 12049. ... more information

[Philadelphia:: n. p.,, 1867].. First edition thus.. A trifle soiled; a fine copy.. 8vo, original printed salmon wrappers, [727]-732 pages. An offprint of an essay on juries, arguing against the need for unanimous jury decisions, addressed to the New York Constitutional Convention. This edition incorporates the holograph corrections made to the text in the broadsheet edition of earlier in 1867. Small ink library duplicate stamp on the rear wrapper. ... more information

(Hornellsville, N. Y.):: Published for the Author,, 1895. First edition.. Somewhat rubbed and shaken; evidence of slight damp-staining to the upper edge of the upper board; a very good copy. NUC notes copies at DLC & NBuG.. 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering. Frontis portrait. Poems in the persona of "Uncle Alvin," a gruff, aging upstate New York resident of stern Christian values Includes lengthy narrative poems on visits to Kansas and to Niagara Falls; he also attacks the Columbian... more information

Boston:: Little, Brown,, 1914. First American edition.. Decoration a little dulled; a fine copy.. 8vo, white-decorated red cloth, white lettering. Frontis, three plates. A crime thriller adapted from the play by Megrue. Martyn wrote a number of crime novels through the 1920s and '30s. Hubin, Crime Fiction, page 278. ... more information

Chicago:: Bible Institute Colportage Association,, (1901).. Evidently a later printing of Gibbud's work on open air preaching, likely dating from sometime before 1925.. A trifle soiled; a fine copy.. Slim 12mo, original red cloth, 83 pages. Published without illustrations. ... more information

Chicago:: Charles H. Kerr & Co.,, 1893. A later printing (or perhaps a reissue of remaindered sheets with a new title page) of a work that first appeared with a Colegrove Book Co. imprint in 1883.. Wrappers chipped and a bit worn; rear wrapper quite damp-stained, other light staining throughout; a fair copy only of an ephemeral Kerr imprint.. 16mo, original printed wrappers, 111 pages. All now, as of old, come by natural growth, by evolution; but are not the less creations of that mysterious organizin... more information

Pittsburgh, Pa.:: Printed by Johnston & Stockton,, 1843.. First edition.. Light damp-stain to the wrappers and a small portion of the fore-edge of the title page; some dust soiling; a very good copy.. 8vo, contemporary (original?) blue wrappers, twine stitching, 48 pages. The former Unitarian clergyman, a native of England who had of late been the head of the Pittsburgh Unitarian society, outlines at length his reasons for leaving his church for the Church of England. Bakewell seems less concerned wit... more information

York:: Printed by Thomas Wilson and Sons, Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, [et al.],, 1824. First edition.. Some minor browning and wear; light stain to the lower outer corner of the title page; a very good copy. OCLC notes three locations only (two in the US).. 8vo, unbound, stitched, [iv], 38, [2] pages, untrimmed. A presentation copy with the ink inscription at the head of the title, "With the author's respects," and the contemporary ownership signature of W. ... 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

Elkhart, Ind.:: Geo. W. Butler, Publisher,, 1889. First edition.. Cheap paper browning throughout; a very good copy.. 8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, 280 pages. Frontis, 23 plates. A European travel account, taken from letters originally supplied to an Elkhart daily newspaper, and what must be an early instance of what seems a peculiarly American undertaking: the organized educational leisure trip. "It is now some months since there came into the writer's hands, a circular, announcing... more information

Berkeley [etc.]:: University of California Press / Sotheby Publications,, 1984. First edition.. Jacket a trifle soiled, spine a bit darkened; a little dust-soiling; a fine copy in a like jacket.. Small folio, coarse linen stamped in black, original printed dust jacket, 615, [1] pages. Illus. An attractive (and comprehensive) guide, designed by Ernest Born. ... more information

New York:: Great American Engraving and Printing Co., 31 Beekman Street,, [ca. 1870-1885?].. A trifle foxed and soiled; in very good condition.. Broadside, approx. 24 x 9-1/4 inches, with a number of display types, date and location blanks unused. A fine example of the 19th century art of thespian rodomontade, giving great detail of wonder to be derived from paying to see the allegedly French magician's various sleights and shifts--from"The Chinese Paradox! Asserted by Spiritualists to be accompl... more information

Annan, Scotland:: n. p.,, [ca. 1920-1930?].. A few light spots on the verso; in fine condition.. Approx. 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 inches. With a contemporary ink annotation on the verso, "First wooden Tabernacle in the British Isles erected at Annan Scotland by H. E. Storrs." The view shows locals in front of the nearly-completed tabernacle; the building bears a fine large sign for the evangelistic campaign. ... more information

(Topeka:: F. M. Steves & Son,, 1909).. Expanded from the 201-page first edition of 1904, evidently a later printing of the 1905 edition of 414 pages.. Some slight rubbing and soiling; a very good copy.. 8vo, original green cloth printed in black, 414 pages. Frontis portrait, illus. An entertaining discursive memoir of the colorful life of the anti-saloon activist, with plenty of attacks on such malefactors as Christian Scientists and political conspirators. ... more information

[Washington, D.C.:: n. p.,, 1913].. Rather stained, soiled and worn, with some spotting; in good, sound condition.. Real photo postcard, postmarked Terminal Station, Washington D.C., March 12, 1913 (stamp neatly removed), 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. A nice view of Wilson reading from notes, taken near the stand on the Capitol grounds facing south-east. The ink message on the postcard, "From Zora," is addressed to Mrs. John Hazlitt of Judson, Indiana: "Suppose you're busy in the sugar camp. . ... more information

(Providence, R.I.:: Rumford Chemical Works),, [ca. 1900?].. Wrappers somewhat soiled and worn; a good, sound copy. OCLC notes two locations.. Thin 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. Quick-rise baking recipes. Haxworth, a Gold Medalist and Graduate of National Training School of Cooking (London), advocates the use of Rumford baking powder in fulfilling the three watchwords of the intelligent housekeeper: purity, economy, and utility. ... more information

New York:: Rinehart & Company, Inc.,, (1955).. First edition.. A little staining to the lower margins; jacket shows signs of some light loving juvenile penciling at an early date, with a three-inch closed tear and some additional light wear and soiling; a very good copy in a good, sound dust jacket.. 8vo, original black cloth spine, cream boards, white lettering, [viii], 305 pages. Original printed dust jacket. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, "Saul -- who if he a... more information

New York:: D. Appleton and Company,, 1891. First edition.. Rubbed and bumped; a very good copy.. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, 334, [2] pages. Evidently a presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, "Mary T. Coles from M.C.H." One of the American Gothic author's daring late novels with undercurrents of sexuality and divorce. Wright III, 2498. ... more information