![Item #4504 Demos. A Journal of Democratic Socialism [May 1944 / June-July 1944]. Socialists,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
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
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
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
[Boston: 1848]. Broadside, 24 x 19.25 inches, main text in two columns. Old folds, minor wear, light foxing. Docketed on verso. A bold and visually-interesting broadside printing the Thanksgiving Proclamation of Massachusetts Governor George N. Briggs for the year 1848. Governor Briggs' religiously-tinged proclamation called for rest, fellowship, and thanks..... More
[San Antonio Zoyatzingo: 1807-1818]. [95] leaves. Small folio sheets, likely disbound. Lacking three disparate, internal leaves. Scattered light foxing and dust soiling, slightly heavier to outer leaves. Accomplished several highly legible secretarial hands. A fascinating and lengthy manuscript that documents hundreds of indigenous marriages in a parish southeast of Mexico..... More
Bogota: Tipografia de Bruno Espinosa, 1832. [8],lvii,[1]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary calf, manuscript paper label on front cover. Spine perished, corners heavily worn, slight worming. Contents clean with some slight worming. Official printing of the first Colombian constitution, published after the dissolution of the Republic of Gran Colombia and the two..... More
[N.p. ca. 1866-1868]. Broadside, 25.5 x 18.5 inches, printed in eight columns. Old folds, a bit frayed at the edges, short closed tear at bottom affecting a few words, minor loss in five columns along one fold line. An unrecorded broadside printing of Indiana Senator Oliver P. Morton's speech on..... More
New York: People's Voice, 1944. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor soiling and wear. A 1944 campaign brochure issued by the Board of Directors of the New York African American newspaper, The People's Voice. The board, headed by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., here "calls upon the Negro people of..... More
![Item #2783 Is Race Prejudice Innate or Acquired? [caption title]. African Americana, Kelly Miller](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2783a.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695748153)
[N.p. n.d., ca. 1927]. 9pp. Gathered signatures, stapled. Minor rusting to staples, light soiling to margins of outer leaves. A rare pamphlet printing an interesting essay on the nature of race prejudice by one of the foremost African American minds of the early-20th century. Kelly Miller, a noted African American..... More
![Item #4337 Election 1960 [cover title]. Presidents, Election of 1960](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4337_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695221828)
[Various locations in and around Chicago, Il. likely early November, 1960]. Title leaf, plus [25] leaves, illustrated with forty-seven silver gelatin photographs, pasted one per leaf or page, all about 5.5 x 7.5 inches, plus five loose images (two duplicates and three other images not pasted in). Square quarto. Contemporary..... More
Washington, D.C. Gales & Seaton, December 4, 1828. 4pp., folio, in bound volume of forty-seven issues, all 4pp., dated between August 13 and December 30, 1823. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Front board detached, spine mostly perished, rear board holding by one stitch. Occasional toning, spotting, and edge wear..... More
[N.p., but probably Lawrence County, Al. before 1820, but executed December 13, 1824]. [2]pp., partially printed and completed in manuscript, folio. Old folds, some toning, minor edge wear. With official seal affixed to verso. An interesting, partially-printed Alabama territorial imprint that was completed after statehood was achieved on December 14..... More
Montgomery, Al. Montgomery Post Book and Job Office, 1860. 8pp., with a secretarial manuscript certification covering inside rear wrapper, with affixed state seal. Original tan printed wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling to wrappers, soft vertical crease throughout. One pencil correction to text, minor even toning. A seemingly unrecorded Alabama imprint, being..... More
Lexington, Ky. August 16, 1884. [1]p., on Southern Exposition pictorial letterhead. Quarto. Very minor edge wear. A unique manuscript letter written by the fifth Bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, Isaac Lane (1834-1937). The main thrust of Lane's letter, written while he was attending the 1884 Southern Exposition in..... More
[Mostly Washington, D.C. 1936-1937]. Signed photograph, plus three printed items described below. A small but notable collection of materials relating to Arthur Wergs Mitchell, an Alabama-born-and-raised legislator from Illinois. Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1883-1968) was born near Lafayette, Alabama. He attended Tuskegee Institute, and also studied at Harvard and Columbia. Mitchell..... More
[New York: 1945-1956]. 89 items, including several duplicates. Scattered toning and light wear. Occasional small chips and short closed tears. A fascinating collection of nearly ninety printed and typed documents that ably demonstrate the range of causes and activities undertaken by the War Resisters League, the oldest pacifist organization in..... More
[New York: 1935-1945]. 105 items, mostly broadsides, broadsheets, and small pamphlets, with a few lengthier documents and including several duplicates. Occasional staples. Some minor chipping and short closed tears throughout, otherwise light edge wear and toning. A sizable collection of over one hundred items produced and distributed by the War..... More
Chapel Hill: Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, 1947. [32]pp. With in-text drawings by Walt Reed. Original pictorial self wrappers. Three-line list of prices adjusted in blue ink on back cover, otherwise a clean and bright copy. An informative pamphlet on the history and legal realities of segregated transportation in the United..... More