[Lake Forest, Il. The Author, 1910]. 44pp. Original plain black cloth. Minor wear and light soiling. Ink ownership inscription on inside front cover, "Purchased August 1910 Mr. Pickard Kennedy." Occasional spotting, minor toning, a few leaves creased. An uncommon book of poetry by an obscure African American author named Paul..... More
[Havana: 1938-1946]. All in original wrappers, all spines guillotined for use as microfilm copies at the New York Public Library. Some chipping with occasional loss, text blocks largely tanned and somewhat brittle. Some front wrappers stamped, "Microfilmed" and/or with a small institutional ink stamp. Should be seen to be properly..... More
Harrison County, Republic of Texas: January 21, 1842. [2]pp. Original folds, minor wear at crossfolds. An informative letter written by Mary Wall in Harrison County in the Republic of Texas, to her sister Lucy Stiles. Wall reports: "I take this opportunity of writing being the first since November 6, 1840..... More
North Fork, Ca. 1944. Two issues, 7pp. & 9pp., respectively. Stapled. Printed mailing self-wrappers on verso of final page, addressed, stamped, and cancelled. Previously folded. Minor wear and dust soiling. Two issues of an extremely scarce pacifist, socialist newsletter, printed and distributed by inmates at Civilian Public Service Camp #35..... More
Champaign, Il. 1900. Fifteen thick card leaves, including title leaf, and illustrated with thirty-three original photographs, some 3.5 x 4.5 inches but most 4.5 x 6.5 inches, each with accompanying manuscript caption. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth, "Photographs" stamped in gilt on front cover, string tied. Spine chipped, boards a...... More
Havana: 1911-1913. Approximately 135 letters, most at least three pages though many longer. Most with original transmittal envelopes. Light wear, a few letters and envelopes with evidence of biopredation, affecting content on a few pages. Some minor soiling. With three original portrait photographs. An interesting archive of letters written from..... More
[Mostly Cebu: 1899-1902]. 218 silver gelatin photographs, most measuring 6.5 x 4.5 inches, including forty-one panoramic photographs measuring 12 x 3.5 inches, all captioned in manuscript or with typed captions in a few instances. All photos housed in three matching oblong octavo green cloth photograph albums and one slightly larger..... More
[Various locations near Ontario, Canada]: 1907. [22] leaves, illustrated with 178 black-and-white photographs, most between 2.25 x 3.25 inches and 3.25 x 5.5 inches, with some slightly smaller images cut into ovals, but also including twenty-one panoramic images measuring 3.25 x 11.5 inches, plus a thirty-seven-page typed narrative of the..... More
Rivers, Az. Associated Students of Butte High School, 1943-1945. Three yearbooks, plus five photographs, two printed documents, and a printed dance invitation. A nice set of annotated yearbooks documenting the high school years of Japanese American students attending Butte High School in Rivers, Arizona, during their internment at the Gila..... More
[Livingston, Guatemala: 1910]. [106]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Contemporary "Lett's No. 31 Indian and Colonial Rough Diary" bound in tan paper-covered boards printed in brown, red cloth backstrip. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards, some staining, spine ends chipped and frayed. Text block detached along hinges except holding by one..... More
Beach Spring, Blountville, Tn. 1829-1839. [24]pp. Tall, thin folio. Contemporary drab wrappers, manuscript title on front cover reading, "1829 1830 Day Book." Wrappers stained, toned, chipped, and with a horizontal tear across the front cover and up about half of the spine. Manuscript label affixed to rear cover reading, "Abram..... More
[New Jersey, New York, and various locations in Puerto Rico: 1939-1952]. [27] leaves, illustrated with 190 photographs between 2.75 x 2 inches and 7 x 9 inches, mostly mounted but a handful loose. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black patterned cloth photograph album, string tied. Moderate edge wear and dust-soiling to album..... More
Kildare, Tx. 1959-1972. Ledger I: [132]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Text block only, no binding. Occasional thumbsoiling and spotting to text, small areas of biopredation to first two text leaves affecting one or two words on a few lines, minor marginal chipping to last few leaves not affecting text. [with:]..... More
[Zanesville, Oh. and other locations: 1954-1974]. [10] leaves, illustrated with thirteen photographs, assorted newspaper excerpts, and ephemeral items, plus sixty loose photographs, most 8 x 10 inches, removed from a previous album, and a handful of newspaper excerpts and ephemera. Contemporary brown buckram photograph album with self adhesive pages, spiral..... More
Fort Riley, Ks. Sixteenth Infantry Print, 1879. Broadsheet, printed on thin coated paper, approximately 14 x 6.5 inches, recto printed in blue ink with ornamental border enclosing the title portion and decorative ornament on other panel of recto, verso printed in black, with signature line at bottom filled in by..... More
Tucson: Published by the author, 1987. [6],33pp. Original pictorial front wrapper, stapled. Rear wrapper lacking, if issued. Minor fraying to front wrapper around staples, four paper lifts on front cover, likely from removed tape, some creasing. Internally clean. A homespun production, being one of fifty copies produced by modern photocopy..... More
Mexico City: 1849. 35pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Very minor wear, slight discoloration along fore-edge of rear wrapper. The slightest faint dampstain along the extreme outer margin of first two leaves, else internally clean. Untrimmed. One of the most influential works on civil rights in Mexico, setting the basis of..... More
[Various locations in Alabama: 1937-1938]. Eleven postcards, each 3.25 x 5.5 inches. Minor wear. Collection of eleven vintage postcards written to Stepin Fetchit, all from various locations in Alabama. The postcards in the collection are all autograph letters signed, in manuscript pencil and ink, from adult and child fans in..... More
[Casilda, Cuba: January, 1898]. [130]pp. Small folio sheets, mostly manuscript with several typed forms completed in manuscript, string tied. Contemporary ink and blind stamps. Light foxing and staining to outer leaves, otherwise minor edge wear and toning. A fascinating and detailed encapsulation of the situation at the Casilda-Trinidad Spanish military..... More
![Item #4494 L'Oncle Tom et Eva [caption title]. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joseph Félon](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4494.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695748422)
Paris: Auguste Bry, [n.d., but 1853]. Handcolored lithograph, 18.5 x 13.75 inches, highlighted with gum arabic. Minor foxing and light wear, but overall a vibrant and colorful lithograph. An unrecorded, attractive, and large depiction of Uncle Tom and Eva St. Clare by French artist Joseph Félon, a highly regarded Parisian..... More
![Item #4490 Map Showing Toltec Park Lands and Transportation Lines [caption title]. Railroads,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4490.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695748421)
Chicago: Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, 1903. Broadsheet, 15.25 x 9.75 inches. Old fold lines, reinforced with tape at a few spots, a few small edge tears, lightly toned. Promotional broadsheet for land in the southern San Luis Valley in Colorado and northern New Mexico. The first side has a...... More
[Chicago]: Privately Printed, 1930. 75pp., illustrated with thirty-one original photographs. Original orange boards, printed paper labels. Head of spine partially perished, boards bumped, minor wear and soiling. Contents clean and fresh. A privately-printed keepsake volume for this woman-owned dude ranch in Wyoming. The ranch, located in the mountains outside of..... More
Mexico: Imprenta y Fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1912. 518pp., plus large folding map. Contemporary half dyed sheep and marbled boards. Minor wear to edges, board rubbed, spine a bit scuffed. A very interesting report on the colonization of Mexico, of particular interest for containing José Covarrubias’s report on..... More
Mexico: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1881. 120pp. In Spanish. Original printed wrappers, bound into later polished calf, gilt ruled and lettered. Minor toning to text. An unrecorded Mexican governmental report containing a section about the United States, with interesting information about the borderlands. The report begins by stating that the..... More
Guadalajara: Imp. del Orfanatorio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 1892. 472pp. Small quarto. Contemporary half sheep and paper boards, spine gilt. Corners heavily worn, binding rubbed. Contemporary bookseller's stamp on title page; contemporary pencil ownership notation on verso of title page; some old staining and toning to text. Rare cook..... More