Mexico City: Tipografia de Rafael y Vila, 1851. 184pp. One signature misbound. Contemporary quarter black calf and black paper boards, spine gilt. Corners heavily worn, boards a bit scuffed; spine ends rubbed. Text lightly tanned. A series of twelve didactic letters written to "dear sister" outlining the various important types..... More
[Texas: ca. 1900]. Manuscript in pen on nine slim sheets, joined at the top and bottom of each sheet, to create a single sheet measuring approximate 70 x 2.5 inches, folded accordion-style to 1 x 2.5 inches. [with:] A small paper-covered "Acme" box containing approximately forty glass microscope slides of..... More
[Prairie View, Tx. 1973-1974]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 248 photographs, mostly in color but some in black-and-white, ranging from thumbnails to 8 x 10 inches, plus several ephemeral items. Square folio. Contemporary handmade photograph album comprised of self-stick album pages bound in blue velvet with white felt decorations affixed to..... More
[Shreveport, La. 1949-1954]. [35]; 49pp., with a handful of newspaper clippings laid in. Contemporary composition books bound in blue wrappers, black cloth backstrip. Moderate wear, abrading, and creasing to wrappers. A pair of manuscript accounting books recording the personal expenses of Whit H. and Lula Smith Howard of Shreveport, Louisiana..... More
[Shreveport, La. 1928-1930]. [7],88,[1]pp. Folio. Contemporary tan cloth stamped in black. Cloth on spine and boards noticeably chipped and abraded. Minor thumb-soiling to text, a few leaves with tiny chips to margins. A unique manuscript ledger from the Sir Knights & Ladies Friendship Association of America in Shreveport, Louisiana, recording..... More
[Various locations: 1974-1979]. Several dozen documents, letters, pamphlets, and assorted ephemera, constituting about half a linear foot of material. Some folds and creasing, moderate wear. An informative archive of materials documenting the brief Army career of Catherine Pope Burroughs Bentle, an Army brat who spent her late teen years and..... 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
Irvington, Ca. May, 1941. [6],150pp. Original wooden boards decoratively illustrated and lettered in green, gray, and black paint on the front board, reading, "Recipes Irvington P.T.A." and bound by three separate rings. Text uniformly toned, with several leaves detached but present, a few with minor chipping. An exceedingly rare DIY..... More
[Various locations in Texas: ca. 1850s to 1880s]. One daguerreotype, five ambrotypes, two tintypes, two CDVs, and five images mounted on card. Some significant wear and fading to a few of the earliest images, some soiling and surface wear to later images. A significant grouping of images documenting multiple generations..... 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