El Paso: 1933. 100,[3]pp. Original printed wrappers. Some spotting and soiling to wraps; minor wear to extremities. Contents browning, but sturdy. From the early 18th century, Catholics were prohibited from joining Masonic orders, but the popularity of freemasonry in the United States seems to have generated considerable interest among Spanish..... More

Gatesville, Texas, and other locations: 1895-1901, 1924. Twenty-six letters, totaling 103pp., plus a photograph, associated newspaper clippings, and biographical information. Octavo sheets. Old folds. Minor wear and soiling overall. Archive of sixteen letters written between businessman George Royalty and his wife, Margaret, together with ten further family letters. George William..... More

[Various locations including the Southwest, California, Mexico, and Colorado: ca. 1900]. Forty silver gelatin photographs on thirty-eight leaves. Images 3 x 4 inches (all but three), one per page and captioned. Oblong 12mo album. Original black cloth with black paper leaves. Internally clean, most images with good definition and contrast..... More

San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Co., 1918. 32pp. Narrow folio. Original blue printed wrappers. A few small stains to front cover, minor wear. Ink stamp on first page, contemporary ink notations throughout. Rare directory for the Golconda Telephone & Power Company, possibly the only issue published. This Nevada directory covers exchanges..... More

New York: 1902. [4],58pp. plus five plates (three folding). Folio. Original black publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. "Prepared by the committee representing property owners of Park Avenue and Vicinity." Report stemming from several incidents of detrimental blasting and tunnel collapse in the subway..... More

[California: ca. 1947]. 21pp. typescript, together with maquette illustrated with eighteen photographs. Folio. Typescript stapled, minor soiling and toning. Maquette is large folio, original pictorial printed boards. Photographs pasted in, some loose. Light chipping and wear. A large maquette with original typescript designed as a book proposal for Will Lane's..... More

Omaha: McCoy & Co., 1892. [16]pp. Original stiff dark red wrappers, printed in gilt. Light chipping and wear to corners and edges. Minor soiling to first and least leaf. With a pasted errata slip at the end. A scarce catalogue advertising the cattle and horse breeding farm of the Patrick..... More

Denver: Singer Manufacturing Co., [ca. 1911]. Folding map, 9.5 x 12 inches. Original printed card wrappers, separated along spine. Light wear to wraps, small chip at head of spine. One separation along map fold from center of top edge. Light toning. An unusual promotional piece, comprising a pocket map of..... More

[Pryor Creek, Montana: St. Charles Mission, ca. 1892]. 20pp. Mimeographed from manuscript, printed in purple. Gathered sheets, no wrappers. Minor soiling. A translation of selections from the Old Testament into the Crow language by Father Peter Paul Prando (1845-1906), a Jesuit priest who lived among the Indians of the Northwest..... More

Des Moines: Kenyon Company, 1915. Folding map, 15.5 x 20 inches. Original yellow printed card covers. Covers lightly soiled. Map printed in color with red text overprinting. Closed tear in gutter margin, a few small separations at folds. Minor soiling. A neat promotional item for farm land in Ness County..... More

Mexico City: 1877. 16pp. plus folding plate. Original blue printed wrappers, stitched as issued. Ink notation on front cover, two small puncture wounds to text. Inscribed by the author on the half title. Minor wear and soiling. Report on new artillery pieces invented for use in the mountains, with a...... More

[Tyler? 1872]. Small handbill, approximately 6.75 x 3 inches. Minor wear. Light soiling and tanning. An excellent ephemeral item from the election of 1872 in Texas, comprising the Democratic ticket for the Third Congressional District, then composed of eastern and central portions of the state. The candidate for the Democratic..... More

Fort Worth: 1877. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded. Two very short separations at top edge. Light tanning. This handbill, dated June 4, 1877, announces the closing of the California and Texas Bank and the formation of a new entity, the City National Bank of Fort Worth. The directors..... More