Los Angeles: 1972. Poster, 17.5 x 11.5 inches. On cream stock, printed in black, red, and green. Two-inch closed tear at top edge, upper corner chipped. Minor wear and soiling else. A striking poster from the Chicano movement in Los Angeles, issued by one of its most prominent publications. La..... More

[San Francisco & Japan: Aoki Taisei-Do, 1929]. [56]pp. In Japanese. Original printed, stiff wrappers, cloth-backed. Minor wear and scattered staining to wraps. Light tanning internally. A fascinating and scarce Japanese-language textbook, intended for use by Japanese-American children in California during the late 1920s. The work was published by Aoki Taisei-Do..... More

Los Angeles: 1902. viii,152pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Remnants of paper spine covering. Light wear to wraps, heavier at corners, spine perishing, but text block solid. Light dust soiling and scattered creasing internally. Scarce, early 20th-century edition of the telephone directory for Los Angeles County, issued by the Pacific States..... More

Baton Rouge: J.M. Taylor, 1861. 7pp. Disbound. Minor edge wear, small dampstains at lower right corner. Minor tanning and faint foxing. Scarce report for the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad, issued in the same month that Louisiana seceded from the United States. This edition details the construction completed up to..... More

Poston, Az. Young Buddhists Asociation, 1943. [16] leaves. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Printed on one or both sides of the leaf, apparently indiscriminately. Light edge wear and minor tanning to wraps. Scattered light offsetting and toning internally. In English and translisterated Japanese. This scarce booklet is the program for the..... More

Richmond, Ky. Cut Rate Printing Co., [1914]. [54]pp. Original printed wrappers, string-tied. Front cover somewhat scuffed, some wear at lower edge, corners bumped. Light tanning and scattered faint foxing internally. First edition of this popular poetry collection. Laine (1870-1955) was a poet and teacher in Kentucky. He founded the Madison..... More

[North Dakota: ca. 1914]. Broadside, 6 x 9 inches. Minor wear. Handbill published by the North Dakota Votes for Women League ahead of the suffrage referendum in that state in 1914. North Dakota had several 19th-century attempts at women's suffrage which all failed to pass. The League was established in..... More

Detroit: 1942. 43pp. Original printed wrappers. Corners heavily chipped, lightly soiled. Pictorial title page with photogravure on verso. Minor soiling and wear to text. Proceedings for this early World War II-era civil rights conference held in Detroit. The March of Washington Movement lasted from 1941 to 1946 under the slogan..... More

[Sacramento: Railway Express Agency, ca. 1910]. Broadside, 10 x 8 inches. Printed in gold. Slight creasing at top edge. In Chinese and English. An ephemeral survival, documenting aspects of Chinese agricultural production and transport in early 20th-century California. This broadside was issued by the Railway Express Agency of Sacramento, and..... More

Rooseveltown, N.Y. Akwesasne Notes, [1970s]. Poster, 22.5 x 17.5 inches. On cream stock, printed in red and green. Minor wear. Handsome Native rights poster produced by the newspaper Akwesasne Notes, a publication of the Mohawk Nation. The paper reproduced several of its centerfold pieces as separate posters in the 1970s..... More

[Argentina & Brazil: 1900]. Three letters, totaling [12]pp., with original mailing envelopes, plus one later photograph. Previously folded, with scattered minor loss at fold points, slightly affecting text. One letter with two-inch closed tear at top edge; another letter with a chip, still present but costing a few words of..... More

Guadalajara: Apud Mariannum Valdez Tellez Giron, [1807-1808]. Three stitched fascicles, totaling [30] manuscript leaves and fifteen printed broadsides and broadsheets, completed both in manuscript and in type. Some folded. Straight, vertical cuts from foot of one fascicle. Some dust soiling and toning; scattered damp staining and foxing. A few separations..... More

Puebla: Imprenta Liberal de Moreno Hermanos, 1821-1822. Forty-one issues plus three supplements, 372pp. Minor, scattered worming, slightly affecting text. Scattered light dampstaining and faint foxing. Untrimmed. A complete run of this early and significant periodical, a "lantern" for the Mexican people, which began publication in Puebla just one month after..... More