Catalogues

Bibliography Week 2026

Bibliography Week 2026

Our list for Bibliography Week contains twenty-five items on a wide array of subjects, many with interesting  printing or publishing details.  Highlights include an unusual private press production with manuscript illustrations; a panoramic photo of Native American students at the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson; a mimeographed yearbook from a Japanese internment camp; a children's book printed on linen; a work printed in the printshop of a hospital for the poor; and more.  Enjoy!

List #65 - PRBM, Part I

List #65 - PRBM, Part I

As we first started McBRB in 2018, we had no inventory and no plan. David and Cynthy of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts were the first people on the phone to us to ask how they could help our fledgling business. When David passed away, we lost a mentor and a friend in the book trade, and we wanted to do whatever we could to help Cynthy grapple with such a life-altering loss. Over the course of several months, we made visits to Philadelphia to select a group of materials from PRBM’s inventory. These were primarily Latin Americana, the main area of overlap between our two firms, and included a substantial amount of uncatalogued backlog. We have now fully catalogued those items and present the first group of them in the present list, which is dedicated to David Szewczyk.

Boston Book Fair 2025

Boston Book Fair 2025

For this fair, we've pulled together seventy-five items on a wide array of subjects.  Highlights include a large photographic archive of the Dominican Republic, an annotated work on the revolution on Saint Domingue, the archive of an admiral in the Spanish American War, broadsides illustrated by Posada, and more. Enjoy!

Rare Books LAX 2025

Rare Books LAX 2025

Our list for Union Station contains a wide array of materials from Antarctica to California to Japan.  Highlights include medical manuscripts; a large group of Posada prints; a handsome collection of Native American photos; works on the Japanese in California; Mexican cook books; a few colorful posters; and more. Enjoy!

Catalogue Five

Catalogue Five

Our fifth printed catalogue offers seventy-five items from a wide array of genres and formats. Highlights include a splendid letter from Malcolm X to a biographer; a trio of rare broadsides on Spain's final attempt at Mexican reconquest; an important early Oregon promotional work; a rare Cuban cookbook; an unrecorded broadside raising funds to manumit a man's enslaved family; handsome photographs of Jamaica; and more.

List #63 - Fifty Under $500

List #63 - Fifty Under $500

Our latest list is comprised of a wide array of inventory - some older, some brand new like the above image - all priced at $500 or less.  We invite you to explore Posada broadsides, select pieces of African Americana, a map of New Orleans, Western American materials, Texana, a work on Mexican women, and much more.  Enjoy!