![Item #3396 A Young Girl's Diary [manuscript cover title]. California, Rosy Thomas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3396.JPG?v=1658332938)
Rio Bravo, Ca. 1914. [18],30pp. of manuscript on lined paper. Contemporary handmade plain wrappers, stitched. Minor edge wear and light staining to wrappers. A holographic diary and short story written by in 1914 by Rosy Thomas, a young California woman in Rio Bravo, a former settlement in Kern County along..... More
[Chicago? ca. 1920]. [4],132pp. plus chromolithographic plate. Original light grey cloth, cover printed in black. Extremities rubbed, minor soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Text moderately but evenly tanned, some minor wear. A scarce community cook book compiled by the East End Circle Woman's Guild for the benefit of..... More
Philadelphia: M. Thomas, 1818. [4],198pp. Contemporary red morocco, ornately tooled in gilt with owner's name on front cover; sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down. Front hinge cracked, corners lightly worn. Light scattered foxing. First edition of James Kirke Paulding's romance of the frontier in a handsome early American bespoke..... More
![Item #156 [Small Archive of Eighteen Glass Plates with Images of Life in South Dakota]. Western...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB156_01.JPG?v=1544361044)
[South Dakota? ca. 1910?]. Eighteen glass plates, eight measuring 3 x 4 inches (four colored) and ten of them 4 x 5 inches. With photographs printed from the plates. No cracking, minimal chipping at edges. Two small sets of images depicting life in South Dakota at the turn of the..... More