For this virtual fair, we have gathered together eighteen pieces of Americana, many of them California or Western related. Highlights include a photo album of businessmen traveling around the West at the turn of the century; a rare Mexican proclamation on the Santa Fe Trail; an Arizona cattle promo with beaten copper wrappers; a rare San Francisco street guide with map, and more. Enjoy!
Our second end-of-summer list featuring thirty items priced $300 or less. It comprises a broad and varied selection of items in Western Americana, Latin Americana, and more. Enjoy!
We offer you a list of 30 items priced $300 or less. Most of these items have not been previously advertised in a list or book fair. They encompass a wide variety of formats and subjects, including manuscripts, African-Americana, Latin Americana, Western Americana, and a handsome photo-illustrated book. There is something for everyone. Enjoy!
This fair marks the two year anniversary of the start of our business, and we’ve pulled together an outstanding selection of materials in all price ranges in honor of the occasion. These include a rare Japanese directory produced at the Manzanar internment camp; the roll book for an African-American unit in the Civil War; the earliest surviving Brooklyn telephone directories; an intricate bird’s eye view of Hackensack; an eccentric assemblage of spiritualist art on cabinet cards by a California photographer; several archives; as well as numerous other choice pieces of Latin Americana, Western Americana, photography, and more. Enjoy!
Our latest list offers up thirty-five items new to inventory and freshly catalogued, in a wide array of formats and subject areas. Highlights include a rare and unrecorded African-American women’s lodge item from Missouri; a rare work on Cuban railroads published in Cienfuegos; stereoviews of an industrial manufacturer in Chicago; an archive of a Cincinnati policeman’s beat in the 1940s; a photo album of a woman missionary in Bolivia in the 1930s; an enormous oil plat map from Texas; a scarce account of crime and villainy published in rural Tennessee in the 1830s; and much more. Enjoy!
Another joint effort with Tschanz Rare Books and Johnson Rare Books & Archives, this catalogue takes the place of our RBMS trip, journeying geographically from Los Angeles to Indiana. McBRB highlights include a Nevada railroad freight log book, several pieces related to rail travel across the plains, a rare map of the Alton & Terre Haute Railway, and a manuscript volume of an Indiana railroad union. Enjoy!
A list of twelve items appearing in our first virtual book fair booth! Highlights include a large archive of photos from post-war Okinawa, a Mexican military manual, a turn-of-the-century Texas photo album kept by two young women in Houston, a rare guide to Havana from 1899, and more. Enjoy!
Our second collaboration with Tschanz Rare Books and Johnson Rare Books & Archives. McBRB highlights include a handsome photo album depicting life at the Grand Canyon Lime & Cement Co. mines in Arizona; a rare lithograph of the largest mass execution in U.S. history (of Native Americans, of course); a rare Colorado soil conservation pamphlet from the 1930s; and a wax museum broadside advertisement from San Francisco. Enjoy!