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

[Chicago: Bow-Knot Publishing Co., ca. 1893-1894]. Wrappers spotted and sunned, with some damp-staining; a lttle chipped at the head and foot of the spine; cheap pulp paper stock toned but supple; in good condition. Original pictorial pink wrappers (7.38 x 5.25 inches), 334 pages. First edition.

"I was now a veritable madman. A sexual maniac."

Dedicated to a warden at the Joliet prison from one of his former inmates, a sensationalist novel of Chicago that opens with a couple sitting on a bench in Lincoln Park, a tale of seduction, sex and murder--as well as a lengthy prefatory account from Knott detailing his arrest in 1891 and imprisonment in 1892 for sending circulars advertising obscene matter through the mails in promotion of his novel Stolen Sweets.

(His supposedly innocent excuse would have appeared to rest with his professed difficulties of navigating the postal regulations around second-class matter, this dodge likely something of a fig leaf.)

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New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 57 Rose Street, 1905. First edition.

Wrappers spotted and soiled and lightly creased, with a small chip at the foot of the spine; cheap pulp paper browned, but supple; in good to very good condition.

Original color pictorial wrappers (7 x 4.75 inches), 192 pages. Frontis, three plates.

A pot-boiler set in Mexico with a mysterious orphan, an assortment of robbers and bandits, disguises worthy of a cut-rate Shakespearean comedy, a kindly friar, and a villain who meets his fate between the jaws of a hungry shark.

Issued in a series published by Ogilvie of cheap novelizations of popular plays, with ads on the rear wrapper for 68 titles in that series, "for sale by Newsdealers and Booksellers everywhere, or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, to any address for 25 cents each, or any five books for $1.00."