Los Angeles: 1950. 198pp., plus a folding panoramic photographic plate. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, worn, and detached, with about a fourth of the spine perished. Minor thumb-soiling to first several leaves, but otherwise clean. A rare edition of the annual meeting minutes and other proceedings of the..... More
[Oakland, Ca. 1958]. 20pp. Quarto. Original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Top corner of one leaf torn away, just touching one letter. A seemingly unrecorded program for the biennial meeting of an African American Masonic group at the Most Worshipful Golden West Lodge..... More
Denton, Tx. 1920-1938. [131]pp. Typescript on rectos only. Folio sheets, loose. Light wear and soiling, primarily at edges. Manuscript corrections and notations throughout. An apparently unpublished typescript of a story about ranch life in Texas at the turn of the century. There is substantial detail about ranch life, farming practices..... More
![Item #685 Los Angeles: The Gateway to Southern California [cover title]. California, Railroads](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB685_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1563022134)
[Chicago? 1916?]. [12]pp. Original pictorial self-wrappers, stapled. Small contemporary publisher's notice affixed to front wrap. Light wear and dust soiling. Rare promotional for the Salt Lake Route by rail to Los Angeles, and for the attractions of the city itself, published circa 1916. The text touts the population and commercial..... More
[San Francisco? 1919]. Folded map, 21 x 28 inches. Promotional text printed on verso. Minor wear. Map highlighting lots in the city Pacific Grove, on the Monterey peninsula, owned by the Del Monte Properties Co. and to be sold by auctioneers Barry & Austin with no reserve. The text printed..... More
Chicago: Geo. F. Cram, 1885. Large folding pamphlet, approximately 20 x 41.5 inches. A few small chips and short closed tears at edges; several short separations and very minor losses along folds. Contemporary agent's ink stamp on cover panel. Tape repair across portion of horizontal fold; one panel with patches..... More
![Item #4005 The New Japanese American News 1949 Year Book [cover title]. Japanese Americana](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4005_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680637201)
Los Angeles: 1949. [220],34,[16],934,[26],20pp., plus numerous additional interleaved advertisements on colored paper. Original red cloth, gilt printed. Covers rubbed, some wear and soiling. Minor soiling to contents. Scarce postwar directory for Japanese emigrants living across the Americas. The focus is California and the American West, but there are also dedicated..... More
Hutchinson, Ks. The Hutchinson Gazette, [1920]. 32pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Slight wear along spine. Minor dust soiling and toning. Scarce, post-World War I promotional for Southwest Kansas and the town of Hutchinson, the seat of Reno County. This substantial, magazine-style publication prints enthusiastic endorsements of agriculture, stock raising..... More
Mexico City: January 9, 1836. Broadside, 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Old fold lines, minor creasing. An exceedingly rare Mexican decree concerned with financing the Mexican Army during the early months of the Texas Revolution. Essentially, the decree called for slashing the budgets of other departments (or states) within the Mexican..... More
![Item #1265 Williams "The Gem of the Project" [caption title]. Montana](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1265_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591448200)
Williams, Mt. Western Office, [ca. 1920]. 8pp. Two loose folio sheets. Previously folded, with several separations repaired with tape along old folds. Even tanning. An unrecorded promotional for the town of Williams, Montana. In its post-World War I heyday, it thrived as a result of its proximity to the Valier..... More
Brownville, Ne. [1870]. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling. Faint tanning and foxing. A brief instructional pamphlet on the transplant and cultivation of fruit trees from Furnas Nurseries of Brownville, Nebraska. Robert W. Furnas was one of the early territorial pioneers who came to Nebraska from Ohio..... More
Eureka, Nv. July 3, 1871. [4]pp., on a single large folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor toning. A large-format mining report on the Eureka District of Nevada by noted mining and mechanical engineer Joshua E. Clayton. Joshua Elliott Clayton (1820-1889) was regarded as one of the nation's foremost mining engineers..... More
Washington DC: A. & G. Way, 1809. 19,[1]pp. Disbound. Soiling to top margin of first few leaves, minor foxing and toning, small inked number on title page, bottom corner of first text leaf clipped. A scarce early entry in the landmark Federal-era Louisiana legal battle known later as the New..... More
![Item #562 North Dakota [cover title]. Northern Pacific Railway](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB562_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1562074923)
[St. Paul. ca. 1916]. 64pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. A scarce North Dakota promotional published by the Northern Pacific Railway, focused on the agriculture of the state. The extensive text consists consists of detailed, county-by-county descriptions of farming opportunities in North Dakota, accompanied by numerous photographic images, as well..... More
Montana and South Dakota: [ca. 1900]. Fifteen silver prints, 4.5” x 7.5” to 8.25” x 6.25”. All photos matted. Occasional fading or uneven tones to some images; one image printed from a cracked plate. A rare and captivating set of photographs by a little-documented western photographer who worked among the..... More
Gainesville, Tx. W.W. Howeth Co., [ca. 1920s]. Blueline map, 27 x 29 inches. Old folds, very short separations to some fold lines, most reinforced with archival repairs on verso. Extensive hand coloring and some pencil notations. A rare and seemingly unrecorded cadastral map showing land ownership and mineral rights along..... More