Category Archives: catalogues

Obscure Objects Explained.

Posted on March 2, 2014 by Garrett

Below you will find the description of this cheese grater, which was sold out of my recent illustrated online-only catalog, Occasional List 12. Bear with me. 12. [Obscure Object]. Stainless steel Inox-brand cheese grater rescued from the recycling cart of … Continue reading →

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Some preliminary notes on the aesthetic merits of interesting catalogues.

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Garrett

I am willing to break my silence when I receive several immensely pleasing bookseller’s catalogues in my post office box in one fell swoop, as I did this morning. Stuart Bennett’s fiftieth catalogue, Unique? A Catalogue of Apparently Unrecorded or … Continue reading →

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The Modern American Muse.

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Garrett

I am pleased to announce the availability of a new catalogue, “Sweet Singers (American Verse, 1806-1964),” a miscellany of 183 items available as a PDF via email. (I do not plan to offer a paper version of this catalogue.) The … Continue reading →

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Garrett Scott, Bookseller: Catalogue 19

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Garrett

One reason for the sporadic posting on this ersatz weblog (aside from sloth) has been the preparation and publication of my Catalogue 19, American Itinerant Ministers, Evangelists & Missionaries, Including Conversion Narratives and Controversial Works (with an additional section of … Continue reading →

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Marc Selvaggio, Bookseller, Catalogue Number 123: World’s Fairs & Expositions, 1851-1940.

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Garrett

517 items, from London in 1851 to Brussels in 1958. Though Selvaggio pretty much covers the waterfront (or perhaps the Midway), there is much here on the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and several of the later fairs (San … Continue reading →

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Bookworm & Silverfish, Catalog 582.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

206 items, in the Bookworm & Silverfish broadsheet format. Much of Mr. Presgraves’ usual assortment of old sheet music (including a lot of 13 pieces of ante-fire Chicago sheet music, 1857-1869, priced $650 for the batch), as well as miscellaneous … Continue reading →

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Peter L. Masi – Books, Catalog 187.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

443 items, with the usual emphasis on ephemeral material and a further emphasis in this catalogue on Business & Industry. Peter’s material tends to be interesting and attractively priced, though necesarily sparingly described; when he does grow discursive (the eye … Continue reading →

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John Michael Lang Fine Books, Recent Acquisitions List 21.

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Garrett

Amid much gnashing of teeth over the graying of the antiquarian book world, there comes in my post office box this morning another reminder that there in fact exist booksellers of a younger sort (where by younger sort one means … Continue reading →

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Brian Cassidy, Bookseller, Catalog No. One.

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Garrett

40 items, from a New York School anthology to Louis Zukofsky, with a number of interesting association items. The catalog includes a well-researched batch of material (a typed letter and a typed manuscript from William Burroughs sent to Allen Ginsberg … Continue reading →

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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books, Catalogue 98.

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Garrett

124 items, the usual interesting mix of Americana and American imprints. In one instance, an abolitionist pamphlet writer excommunicates the First Church in Newbury, Mass. (Henry Clark Wright’s Duty of Abolitionist’s to Pro-Slavery Ministers and Churches, Concord N.H., 1841, $250); … Continue reading →

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