![Item #5393 The Story of the Philippines [salesman's sample]. Philippines, Murat Halstead,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Chicago: The Dominion Company, [1898]. Irregularly paginated, as issued, plus forty-eight pages of plates, mostly full-page monotone photographic plates. Quarto. Original pictorial cloth stamped in red, blue, and gilt. Minor wear to extremities, corners bumped. Text somewhat toned. A handsome salesman's dummy for Murat Halstead's history of the Philippines, written..... More
New York: Street & Smith, 1903. 277,[9]pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached neatly along spine, minor soiling, chipping, and edge wear. Contents somewhat toned. An unusual issue of an obscure Upton Sinclair work published pseudonymously in 1903 under the pen name Lieutenant Frederick Garrison. The work is part of..... More
[Chicago? 1906]. [88]pp. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt stamped, front board with black-and-white illustration. Light wear and scuffing to boards. Light tanning internally. A salesman's dummy for a lurid and extremely popular contemporary history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This copy exemplifies the "fine cloth" version of the book..... More
![Item #5434 Uncle Tom Learns to Write [caption title]. Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732120173)
[London: Edward Lloyd, ca. 1852]. Lithographic broadside, 22 x 17 inches, printed on cheap, light orange paper. Minor wear, a few short closed edge tears, moderate toning. A tender but striking poster. A rare poster advertising an early British edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The..... More