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

Detroit:: Emil Schober,, 1878. Evidently a later printing of the 1877 revised edition, which was in turn greatly expanded from the 1876 collection of the same title.. Spine faded; a bit rubbed and bumped; a very good copy.. 8vo, original gilt-stamped purple cloth, [1], viii, 214 pages. A surprising amount of earnest verse on Christ's birth, the Passion and the Resurrection. Front free endpaper excised. ... more information

[At the foot of the text:] Edinburgh:: Darien Press,, [ca. 1910-1930?].. First edition.. Some minor wear and staining; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers, 44 pages. Mounted portrait. According to the editor's note, proceeds from the sale to be devoted to sending missions to the lepers. ... more information

Paradise, Penna.:: National Progressive Party,, 1932-1933.. First edition.. Browned and a bit damped; a very good copy.. 8vo, original self-wrappers. Third-party "anti-Demopublican" reform propaganda, looking forward to the national campaigns of 1934 and 1936; with much on creating a new monetary system, rooting out the Wall Street fat cats, abolishing usury, payment to the exploited members of the Bonus Army, etc. The relationship of this incarnation of a National Progressive Party to the Roose... more information

New York, etc.:: Fleming H. Revell,, (1924).. First edition.. A little worn; a very good copy.. 8vo, original blue cloth, yellow lettering, 127 pages. Frontis, six plates. With much extraneous matter not relating to her service as a Civil War nurse, though perhaps with insight on what motivated a 19th century woman to become a nurse and later a missionary: "Away down within the boom--boom--boom of the cannonading, close to the Front, what could our party of untrained though willing people do? Surely,... more information

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1904).. First edition.. A trifle rubbed and bumped; a very good copy.. 8vo, original red- and yellow-stamped pictorial blue cloth designed by Margaret Armstrong, gilt lettering. One of Miller's several romances based on Biblical themes. Smith M-799. ... more information

[Philadelphia:: n. p.,, 1882].. Some light creasing, chipping and browning; in very good condition.. Unbound folded leaflet, approx. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, [3] pages. Illus., display types. An attractive ephemeral invitation and preliminary program for a pacifist celebration scheduled for October 23, 1882, at Franklin Institute Hall in Philadelphia. The sessions were to include addresses from the mayor of Philadelphia and delegates ("among them some Indians expected"), announcements on the openin... more information

Akron, Ohio:: Saalfield Publishing,, 1905.. First edition.. A trifle bumped and rubbed; a very good copy.. 8vo,original pictorial green cloth, 261 pages. Frontis, three plates by Ida May Rockwell. A late flowering of the dime novel genre in a more substantial format, a boys' adventure tale from the prolific St. George Rathborne (1854-1938). ... more information

[N. p., but Germany:: n. p.,, 1927].. Wrappers a bit worn, a couple of leaves detached and laid in; in good, sound condition.. Unruled composition book, approx. 8 x 6.5 inches, [60] pages, paper label on the front wrapper (label removed but laid in) reading in pencil "EVI." Numerous illus. Such flights of fancy as a snail-drawn carriage, a pipe-smoking Easter Bunny, and a ladybug woman at the beach, all quite neat and accomplished for what appears to be a mid-elementary age child.... more information

Lowell:: Nathaniel L. Dayton,, 1851.. First edition.. A little foxing to the title page and tissue guard; gilt a trifle dulled; a bit bumped and rubbed; a very good copy.. 8vo, original elaborately gilt-stamped red cloth, gilt lettering, 252 pages, a.e.g. Engraved frontis. A gift book in the expected gift book high style of gilt and sentiment, with extracts and contributions from Emily Chubbuck Judson ("Fanny Forrester"), J. G. Percival, Hannah Flagg Gould, Lydia Maria Child (evidently a reprint... more information

Montreal:: Wm. Drysdale & Co., Publishers,, 1888. First edition.. Some minor soiling and wear; a very good copy.. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers, 200 pages. An ambitious early novel from this long-time fixture on the Montreal political and literary scene, meant to "map out a future for the Canadian nation, which has been hitherto drifting without any plan." Lighthall also attempts "to make some of the atmosphere of French Canada understood by those who speak English." Despite... more information

8vo, original self-wrappers, 64 pages. From this pioneering youth rights group (which later came under fire for its left-leaning leadership). With much on the conditions of youth in America during the Great Depression, including accounts of the C.C.C., transient camps, attempts and labor organization, the role of the New Deal, etc. From the foot of the second page, "Written and Prepared by A. M. Sirkin.... more information