Our latest list contains twenty-five items freshly catalogued. Highlights include an archive from the Spanish-American War; several interesting pieces of African Americana; a bracero narrative; an unusual manuscript cook book from Mexico; a massive missionary scrapbook; works from Cuba and Mexico; and more. Enjoy!
Our list for RBSF includes a variety of items and formats with an emphasis on California and the West. Highlights include a handsome poster advertising the Gold Rush; a manuscript petition for Cuban slaves to celebrate their native holidays; several works on the Japanese diaspora to South America; a large photograph recording the last survivors of the Texan Revolution; important and unusual works of African Americana, Latin Americana, and more. Enjoy!
This year's list for Bibliography Week comprises thirty items on a wide range of topics, illustrative of our specialties. Highlights include a substantial collection of song sheets illustrated by Posada; a rare Native American brand book; foundational works of African-American literature; editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin; and a work from a German POW camp in Colorado. Enjoy!
Our list for the Boston Book Fair this year contains a wide array of interesting items. Highlights include a photographic collection documenting a Black community in Western Massachusetts; a wonderful work on songs by Cuban farmers; a Spanish manuscript on cockfighting; a Japanese internment archive; a rare Louisiana directory; an amazing photographic report about railroads in the Yucatan; an Obama campaign sign, and more. Enjoy!
We're pleased to be back at Rare Books L.A. in fabulous downtown Union Station. Our list for the fair has fifty items with a slight emphasis on California and Western Americana. Highlights include a Mexican work celebrating the creation of the Republic; a 19th-century cabinet card of a young Chinese man in California; a rare run of a Cuban revolutionary periodical; a handful of interesting U.S. Spanish-language imprints; African Americana; and more. Enjoy!
McBRB is pleased to announce our inaugural appearance at the Empire State Rare Book and Print Fair in uptown Manhattan. Our list includes a selection of fifty items, some of them NYC-centric, but most focusing on our usual areas of interest. Highlights include a set of images from the Philippine-American War; the New Testament in phonetics; works by missionaries in far-flung lands; a rare Louisiana imprint; a Mississippi civil rights newspaper, and more. Enjoy!
Our fourth printed catalogue offers seventy-five items from a wide array of genres and formats. Highlights include a photographically illustrated report on the first railroad in the Yucatan; an archive of letters from a Montana mining family; rare lithographs of Antigua; choice pieces of African Americana; archives from America's time in the Philippines, and more.
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 handy guide for New Jersey policemen on how to speak Spanish, Western American materials, Texana, some Mexican poetry, and much more. Enjoy!