Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co., 1903. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor..... More

Boise: Statesman Print, [1899]. 48pp. plus folding map, 12 x 17.75 inches. 16mo. Original yellow printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, closed tear to rear cover. Two leaves loose, minor internal soiling. Small guide providing details of the route to the gold fields at Thunder Mountain, Idaho, together with..... More

[New York: 1925]. Folding brochure, 9.25 x 15 inches, folded into four panels. Light wear and soiling, particularly ti lower edge; signed by Anderson at top of first panel. Brochure printing reviews of the play "Appearances," the first full-length play written by an African-American to be produced on Broadway. Garland..... More

[Burlington, Ia. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, ca. 1872]. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort..... More

Topeka: 1900. 112pp. plus two leaves of ads and folding map. 12mo. Original blue wrappers printed in silver, stapled. Light wear and soiling, upper corner of front cover torn away. Small closed tear at gutter margin of map. Light wear and soiling to text. A handbook produced for use at..... More

[Various places: 1863]. [20]pp., in small diary. Original sheep, wallet-style, gilt lettered. Light wear to covers. Writing is light, but neat and legible. Travel diary of Austin E. Lyon, who journeyed from his hometown of Tecumseh, Michigan, to San Francisco in 1863, at the height of the Civil War. Lyon..... More

Columbus, Ne. Columbus Printing & Specialty House, 1910. 16pp. plus two leaves of ads. Original beige wrappers, printed in red, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. "This, the first issue of 'The Sandburr,' will undoubtedly mark the beginning of a new era in the history of the Columbus High School. For..... More

Denver: Clason Map Co., 1914. 48pp. plus folding map, 14.5 x 27.5 inches. 12mo. Green printed card cover. Light wear, moderate dampstaining to covers and text. Map with slight separations at some folds. Faintly musty. An early issue of Clason's Guide for Nebraska, copyright dated 1914. With some brief facts..... More

St. Paul: Brown & Treacy, 1883. [2],96pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Light chipping and wear, some light soiling. Minor wear and soiling internally. A celebratory promotional work for the Northern Pacific Railway and the city of St. Paul "the Metropolis of the Northwest." Handsomely illustrated throughout with woodcuts of local..... More

[Various places]: 1930-1931. 277 photographs on forty-four leaves, most 2.5 x 3.5 inches, a few larger. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth, string tied, cover gilt. Wear to covers, some chipping. Images with corner mounts, many captioned. Internally clean, some light chipping to a few leaves. A lovely vernacular album --..... More

Washington, D.C. 1838. 120pp., plus map. 20th-century half calf and cloth boards, spine gilt. Minor wear at corners and edges. Some tanning and light foxing. "This pamphlet written and published by Manuel Gorostiza, special envoy of Mexico to the United States, with its 21-page introduction attacking the good faith of..... More

[Various locations in California]: 1906-1908. 110 silver gelatin photographs on forty-nine leaves. Most images 4 x 5 inches, a few 3 x 4 inches. Oblong octavo album. Original black cloth. Wear and soiling to spine, light wear to corners. First and last leaf loose. Several photos loose, a few creased..... More

Santa Cruz: Imprenta Guadalupana, 1898. 80pp. Original green printed wrappers; front cover detached. Light soiling and wear to wrappers, spine chipped. Text lightly toned. An apparently unrecorded treatise on the cultivation of silk worms written by Professor J.M. Perez Campos of Mexico. Beginning with the basics of silkworms and mulberries..... More