[Honolulu: 1943]. [6]pp., typed on carbon paper, with a few pencil annotations and corrections, stapled at corner. Some toning and creasing, edges a bit frayed, first leaf with only minor marginal chipping. Evidently a draft intended to be printed as a pamphlet or leaflet speaking out against the incarceration of..... More
Newa-Orleans: En la Imprenta de Bayon, 1837. 28pp. Original printed wrappers. Moderate foxing, light soiling and creasing to wrappers. Light foxing to first couple of leaves, otherwise clean internally. Untrimmed. A screamingly-rare U.S. Spanish-language imprint concerning the liberal former governor of Santiago, Cuba, produced in New Orleans in 1837. Manuel..... More
January 17, 1844. [3]pp., on a bifolia, with verso of second leaf docketed and addressed, and some manuscript corrections and edit marks. Original mailing folds. Minor soiling, a few instances of original ink smearing or pooling. A fascinating firsthand account of American naval participation in a controversial moment of gunboat..... More
Mexico City: December 15, 1835. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Minor creasing and light edge wear. In a custom red leatherette folding chemise. Rare proclamation laying out the constitutional changes that solidified the Centralist system of government in Mexico in late 1835, supplanting the Federalist system established through..... More
New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between..... More
![Item #3923 Constitution and By-Laws of the National Alliance of Postal Employes [sic] 1923 [cover...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3923_01.jpg?v=1678737365)
[N.p. 1923]. 23pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black, stapled. Very minor edge wear. Clean internally. A seemingly-unrecorded pamphlet containing the governing documents of an important African American trade union, the National Alliance of Postal Employees. According to the Department of Labor's 1926 Handbook of American Trade-Unions: "In 1913 the..... More
![Item #3970 A Declaration of Civil Rights [cover title]. African Americana, Civil Rights](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3970.jpg?v=1678125293)
[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More
Washington, D.C. Powell y Ginck, 1872. [bound with:] Administracion de Justicia en Puebla. Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Mexico: 1875. 71,26pp. Contemporary quarter red calf and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Spine chipped and heavily rubbed, corners and edges noticeably worn, minor rubbing to boards. Faint thin dampstain to margins of..... More
New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina..... More
![Item #3941 [Early Phonograph Recording of Two Women's Suffrage Speeches]. Women's Suffrage,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3941.jpg?v=1678125449)
New York, Paris, London: Pathe Freres Phonograph Co., [1915]. 78 RPM phonograph record, approximately eleven inches in diameter. In plain sleeve, accompanied by later, smaller-format illustrated Pathe brown paper sleeve. Some scratching on both sides, one small edge chip in blank area. A rare phonograph record containing two speeches in..... More
Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, [1951]. 112pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor edge wear. Small ownership ink stamps to front wrapper, title page, last text page, and inside rear wrapper. A seemingly-unrecorded collection of "real life stories" published for the Young People's Department of..... More
[Philadelphia: 1850]. 7pp. Gathered signatures, folded, likely removed from a binding. Partially detached along spines. Moderate foxing. A quite rare pamphlet recording a jingoistic speech given by former Vice President George Mifflin Dallas in front of the Union meeting in November 1850. Supporting the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive..... More
Palatka, Fl. 1947. [5]pp., typed on folio sheets, stapled. Old folds, minor wear and creasing, light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hattie Q. Brown Club, asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka, Florida...to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave..... More
Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co., 1935. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front..... More
St. Paul, Ks. Press of the A.H.T.A. News, 1911. 16,[39]pp., plus photographic frontispiece. Original light pink printed wrappers, stapled. Mild edge wear, rubbing, and light soiling to wrappers. Mild even toning to text. A scarce entry in the annual proceedings of the famed Anti-Horse Thief Association, who met in Newton..... More