Garrett Scott, Bookseller
Specializing in Early American popular religious movements, popular medicine, unpopular literature, vernacular productions, and Americana. Typography and type design. Books, pamphlets, ephemera and manuscripts bought and sold.
About
Since 1998, the paper residue of the weird, long American 19th century. We also have a specialty in typography. Institutional customers happily accommodated and may be billed to suit their requirements; material may be held for institutions as needed until they can take delivery.Terms of Sale
All items subject to prior sale. All items guaranteed as described and may be returned for any reason (though I ask prior notification). Michigan residents will be charged 6% sales tax. We most major credit cards, Venmo, PayPal, and checks for US Dollars drawn on a US bank. Usual courtesies to the trade. Libraries may be billed to suit their budgetary requirements.
Recently Added Books
Butler's Ghost: or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part. With Reflections upon these Times.
by [D'Urfey, Thomas].
Letterproef Films en Rasters.
by [TYPE SPECIMENS]. Jos. Neve.
![A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij Leiden [wrapper title].](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/872/080/1615080872.0.m.jpg)
A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij Leiden [wrapper title].
by A. W. Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij.
A Selection from the Writings of the Late . . .
by Lawrence, Jonathan, Jr.
The Old Brewery, and the New Mission House at the Five Points.
by Ladies of the Mission.
Printing Old and New.
by Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co.
Recently added catalogues
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34 miscellaneous items, mostly American and most on reform. (We continue to sift the ore of the long tail of the 19th century.)
45 miscellaneous interesting items—and the first in a while to include whatever had lately come to hand in a flurry of cataloging: an early anti-Galileo imprint from Pisa, American reform satire, a type specimen for the print shop at the French naval dockyards in Toulon, some exquisite canvas samples, early American fancy printing on wool, a meditation on personal curation, more private press work from Kentucky, various type specimens, all thrown in together amid the usual Americana, etc.
33 miscellaneous items selected by what covers them.
55 recently-cataloged items reflecting this bookselling concern’s longstanding if perhaps unremunerative affection for minor American literature of the middle to late 19th century—the very sort of stuff that prompted Hawthorne’s dyspeptic plaint. Not all of the authors listed here are women, but certainly none were likely to have earned much in the way of serious literary regard.
47 interesting and unusual items having to do with education, including Emma Willard’s sister turning to the lottery, or a student<br /><br /> at Gettysburg College publishing satirical reviews of the professors of 1882, or an epitome of eccentric free speech on campus.
48 interesting and unusual items that suggest things could be better, either because the material is driven by some utopian intent or springs from some dreadful circumstance.
30 interesting and unusual items relating to sex and exploitation and anxieties.
![Occasional List 30: [The Word]](https://www.abaa.org/assets/catalog_images/OL30_COVER_copy.jpg)
45 interesting obscure items relating to American religion: Child preachers, Religion and Lust, Christocratic Progressive utopias, an Azusa-era Exclusive Brethren tract, etc.
11 recent arrivals. Cheap early pulp prostitution exploitation fiction or quack venereal disease clinic promotional material are but a few of the items here offered. The +1 to such concupiscence might be understood to include the detailed early 19th century manuscript account book of a cooperative lottery association, or perhaps the working archive and original dummy of a mid-century Christian ventriloquist.