Search Results: Americana from Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA)

Buffalo: Oliver G. Steele, 1836. Stated third edition.. Spine and board edges somewhat sunned; lightly foxed throughout; a very good copy.. 12mo, original embossed deep purple or brown cloth, gilt lettering, 111, [1] pages. Folding map tipped in before the title page, approx. 12.5 x 14 inches, A discursive guidebook to the falls, evidently expanded over the 96-page edition of 1835, and first published anonymously in 1834 under the title A guide to travelers visiting the falls of Niagara. Includes travel distances and various measurements of the falls. Howes P-106: "Said to be the first guide to this resort; but see Ingraham, Joseph W., for another of same date.

St. Louis: Published at the Office of "Edwards's Monthly," a Journal of Progress, (1860). First edition. Cloth somewhat rubbed, a few plates just a trifle shaken; a very good copy.. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped gilt pictorial blue cloth, [49]-604, [32] pages, a.e.g. Frontispiece, plates, illustrations in the text. Midland Notes 82: "Recounts the activities of the fur-trader, Joseph Philbert (p 298 to 302), and the important Ashley-O'Fallon letters (p 333-336)," the latter of which concern the Arikara war. An extensive and interesting subscription doorstop history of St. Louis, with much information on early settlers and events. Howes E-69; Sabin 21987. This copy with the Gleason Library bookplate on the front pastedown and the characteristic small ink accession number on the verso of the title page, but no other evident library marks. With the publisher's presentation inscription to a Miss Annie Deved of Phillips Port, N. Y. on the form on the verso of the frontispiece, signed… Read More

Marion, Illinois: n. p., 1876. First edition.

Some small spots of abrasion to the cloth; some light browning in the endpapers from the binder's glue; in very good condition, quite tight and bright.

Small 8vo (6.63 x 4.63 inches), original blind-stamped black cloth, gilt lettering, viii, 286 pages.

"Here 'Big Jep,' 'Yaller Bill,' and Samuel R. were arrested. The Sherifff then went with a few men to 'Black Bill's,' and arrested him."

This county history "is especially important because of its account of the 'bloody vendetta' which throws a strong light on social conditions in 'Egypt' " (Buck 262).

Though in the broad outlines of its early chapters this would seem to be something of a standard county history, Erwin's work is remembered as the first contemporary account of "Bloody Williamson"--from an author who was himself the defense attorney for several suspects in the assassinations.

Howes E173; Buck 1143.

New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. Spine and board edges sunned and faded; a trifle worn, some light foxing; a very good copy. 12mo (7.38 x 5 inches), original gilt pictorial blind-stamped lilac cloth, gilt lettering, 304 pages. Frontispiece view of the new mission building. Women's mission work in the Five Points neighborhood of Manhattan, with some background on the brutal conditions of life there for the poor. The Old Brewery of the title had long been a notorious tenement and headquarters for gangs (cf. Scorsese); the Methodist mission erected a new building on the site in 1850 and began their work in the area to provide jobs, schooling, and medical care in addition to their preaching. This account, from several women who give only their initials, includes the expected tales of conversion--but also provides some glimpse of the lives of urban poor blacks and Irish immigrants, including a disapproving account of an Irish wake: "I succeeded at last, much to my joy, in breaking up… Read More

Hartford, Conn.: Published by Subscription Only, Hartford Publishing Co., 1869. First edition. Light damp-stain to the lower corners of the leaves in the latter quarter of the book, some light soiling; in very good condition. 8vo (9 x 6 inches), recent half leather and marbled sides, 524 pages. Frontis, 13 plates (including a map). An account of travel in the West subsequent to the opening of the Transcontinental Railroad from the editor of the Springfield Republican, an expanded follow-up to his 1865 Across the Continent. Flake-Draper 768: "Devotes several chapters to Mormonism." Nice early ink stencil on a front blank for C. Parsons, a Saline, Mich., dry goods and clothing store.

Hartford: Printed by by Hudson and Goodwin, for the Author, 1787. First edition.
Fragile binding somewhat rubbed; frontis a bit browned and stained, with some light scattered foxing throughought; in very good condition.
8vo (8 x 5 inches), original sheep, red leather label, gilt rules and lettering, 258, [12] pages, all edges stained green. Frontispiece portrait.
The early American epic that helped shape the Columbus "discovery" story into part of the evolving national identity, as well as a vision of the new nation's achievements and growth in both commerce and the arts.
The subscription list boasts at its head King Louis XVI of France, Washington, and Lafayette. This copy with leaf K4 excised by the publisher, as seen in a number of copies.
BAL 865; Stoddard & Whitesell 369; Evans 20220.

New York: Huntington Press, (1933). First edition.
Some foxing and light wear; in very good condition.. 8vo, original pictorial buckram, 204 pages. Illus. by Paul Honore. No dust jacket.
A presentation copy, with a characteristic ink drawing by Lee, signed both by Lee and his wife (with a sentiment) on the front free endpaper.
A collection of much cowboy verse; as Courtney Riley Cooper notes in the preface, "With his wife, Kittie Lee, strumming a chorded obligato to their original songs of the West, 'Powder River' Jack is an integral part of every rodeo and stampede where the 'Cow Gang' gathers."