San Antonio: 1938. Two black-and-white photographs, each 2.75 x 4 inches. Light edge wear. Developer's stamp on verso of each. A pair of contemporary photographs featuring a neatly-dressed young Black woman with eight of her pupils. The first pictures the teacher and her students seated on the steps of a...... More

[Houston: 1944]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild toning, punch holes to top margin. A rare program for the commencement exercises for the 1944 midwinter graduating class of Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas. The program prints the lineup of speakers and songs, including "Let My People Go!"..... More

San Antonio: Barr Studio, [1880s]. Cabinet card photograph. Light wear and toning, a bit of foxing. Image clear. A handsome studio portrait of an African-American gentleman taken by D.P. Barr in San Antonio. It shows an unidentified man seated against what appears to be a "nature" background. He is in..... More

Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, [ca. 1938]. 8pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers a bit dusty, mild rubbing and edge wear. The rare first edition of Dr. E.H. Borden's impassioned personal history and essay on why he identifies as a Baptist. At the time he wrote the present essay. Dr..... More

Kildare, Tx. 1959-1972. Ledger I: [132]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Text block only, no binding. Occasional thumbsoiling and spotting to text, small areas of biopredation to first two text leaves affecting one or two words on a few lines, minor marginal chipping to last few leaves not affecting text. [with:]..... More

Fort Worth, Tx. 1978. [8],266pp., including six pages of color photographs of the author's family, plus eight blank pages for notes and additional recipes, separately-issued errata leaf laid in. Original orange wrappers, printed in black, with color photograph of the author of the back cover, spiral bound in black plastic..... More

[Various locations, mainly in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas: 1847-1969]. Approximately fifty-five original manuscript letters and documents, plus 150 photographs, most on studio mounts, and several dozen ephemeral items, including newspaper clippings, photocopies of manuscript documents, business cards, and much more. A handful of photographs with minor chipping, but overall..... More

Mexico City: 1842. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling at edges; light tanning. Scarce 1842 addendum to regulations concerning maritime customs and tariffs in Mexico. In the first of four articles contained here, Santa Anna declares that the ports of Galveston and Matagorda will be reopened..... More

Mexico City: April 7, 1843. Small broadsheet, approximately 8.5 x 6 inches. Old vertical fold. Minor dampstain at top edge. Scarce broadsheet decree promulgated on April 7, 1843, in which Santa Anna orders an increase in import tariffs to fund military operations during a rebellion in the Yucatan and renewed..... More

Mexico City: 1836. [8]pp. Small folio. Two sheets, pasted at interior gutter fold. Minor wear at edges; a couple of small wormholes at margins, not affecting text. Patches of light staining; light tanning. A very scarce Mexican decree that created a Legion of Honor for military veterans as a reward..... More

Mexico City: 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Light chipping and wear at corners. A rare broadside that promulgates a decree from the Mexican federal government, ordering that foreign goods be allowed into the port of Matamoros in order to supply the army in the war against Texas. It..... More

Mexico City: December 15, 1835. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Minor creasing and light edge wear. In a custom red leatherette folding chemise. Rare proclamation laying out the constitutional changes that solidified the Centralist system of government in Mexico in late 1835, supplanting the Federalist system established through..... More

Harrison County, Republic of Texas: January 21, 1842. [2]pp. Original folds, minor wear at crossfolds. An informative letter written by Mary Wall in Harrison County in the Republic of Texas, to her sister Lucy Stiles. Wall reports: "I take this opportunity of writing being the first since November 6, 1840..... More