![Item #6463 Afro-American World Almanac: What Do You Know About Your Race? [cover title]. African...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6463.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1779999364)
[Chicago]: 1943. 112pp. Original printed red wrappers, stapled. Light wear at corners and along spine. Even toning internally. The 1943 issue of an irregularly-published almanac aimed at uplifting the African-American community. The author, Rev. Ross D. Brown, writes rather defiantly about a host of issues important to the Black community..... More
[Various places, including Sri Lanka and Los Angeles: ca. 1970-1990]. Approximately [2000]pp., loose and stapled, in various formats, plus album with over 300 art photos, [112]pp. inscribed reproduction art book, four small original art pieces, and several loose photos and negatives. Scattered creasing, chipping, and wear. A few leaves with..... More
Alton: Published by George Holton, 1838. 159pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, copper spine titles. Very minor shelf wear. Small ink notations to front endpapers, minor foxing. An especially nice copy of the first edition of the story of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, the first abolitionist martyr of 19th century America..... More
Chicago: O.C. Blackmer, 1876. 48pp. plus interleaved blanks with seven manuscript illustrations. Original half leather and cloth, edges red. Spine chipped, lower portion separating, corners lightly worn, boards slightly bowed.Minor internal soiling. A charming family press production, otherwise unrecorded. The work was published by Orlando C. Blackmer, with the contents..... More
[Canton, Oh.]: 1866. Broadside, 16 x 12 inches. Printed in two columns within an ornate border. Light wear and toning, a few scuffs to paper not affecting text. First and only printing of this New Year's carrier's address issued by the Ohio Staats-Zeitung in Canton, Ohio. Kaufman & Luft ran..... More
Llanrwst: John Jones, 1840. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Lower half of spine perished; a couple of closed tears to wraps; upper corner chipped. Otherwise, light wear at edges; tanned, some dust soiling, scattered foxing. "An early narrative in Welsh describing travels and experiences all over Ohio but notably in the..... More
Indianapolis: McCormick & Co., 1892. 47pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original cream printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, contents clean. Institutional ink and perforation stamp on title page. Poetry written by this Indiana author while at Heidelberg University in Germany. Cuppy went on to be an author and editor, working at..... More
Grand Rapids: 1910. [16]pp. Original green wrappers, cover gilt, string-tied. Minor wear to wrappers, small ink stamp on rear cover; small ink stamp on verso of title page. Internally clean. Unrecorded work comprised of four poems interspersed with Bible quotations. All four pieces are, unsurprisingly, religious in nature. We find..... More
![Item #5812 Taistelu Osuustoimintarintamalla [Fighting on the Co-operative Front]. Finnish...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5812.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745002540)
Superior, Wi. Central Co-operative Wholesale, 1932. 91,[2]pp. Original illustrated wrappers. Minor wear, creasing, and light soiling to wrappers. Varying levels of toning to text block. A fascinating history of co-operative movements in the United States by George Halonen, a leading Finnish-American Communist who was expelled from the Communist Party of..... More
Duluth: Finnish Daily Publishing Company, 1920. 175,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Wraps heavily chipped and detached, crudely repaired with cello tape. Contemporary ownership inscription to half title. Light chipping to initial and final leaves, otherwise light tanning internally. Scarce history of Finnish individuals, businesses, and organizations based in the Upper Midwest..... More
Duluth: Finnish Daily Publishing Company, 1917. 112pp. Original printed wrappers. Contemporary ownership inscription to title page. Some wear to corners and spine ends. Scattered staining and dust soiling. Evidently a Finnish translation of sections from Iliodor's longer, anti-Rasputin screen published in Moscow the same year. The author, Hieromonk Iliodor, born..... More
Champaign, Il. 1900. Fifteen thick card leaves, including title leaf, and illustrated with thirty-three original photographs, some 3.5 x 4.5 inches but most 4.5 x 6.5 inches, each with accompanying manuscript caption. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth, "Photographs" stamped in gilt on front cover, string tied. Spine chipped, boards a...... More
Terre Haute: July 15, 1835. [4]pp. Quarto, on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, minor wear. Lengthy and interesting letter providing an account of a New Englander's travels across the young state as written to his sister. "I left St. Louis a week ago Saturday, and proceeded to Vincennes on..... More
Bourbon County, Ky. 1824. 6pp., written on two folded folio sheets, docketed on verso of last leaf. Old folds, minor toning and soiling. An interesting manuscript document from early-19th century Kentucky, recording the court proceedings related to the collection of a personal debt. Thomas Roberts of Bourbon County sued in..... More
![Item #5252 [Pair of Letters from a Kentucky Ranch Specializing in Cattle & Sheep Ranching]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5252.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745871055)
Side View, Montgomery County, Ky. 1886/1888. Two manuscript letters: [1]; [2]pp., each on "Thomas Corwin Anderson High Class Short-Horns and Oxford Down Sheep" letterhead. Original mailing folds, minor wear. A pair of letters pertaining to Thomas Corwin Anderson's cattle and sheep ranching business in late-19th century Kentucky. The first letter..... More
Portland, Or. Metropolitan Press, 1909. 46pp. Original green wrappers, printed paper label on front cover. Wrappers lightly chipped. Small ink stamp on verso of title page, letter from Copyright Office paper clipped in. Internally clean and fresh. An odd biographical work, recording the author's life with a heavy dose of..... More
![Item #2306 [Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB2306_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1638221673)
[St. Louis]: 1891. Watercolor, 7.25 x 10 inches. Matted and framed in an early walnut frame with gilt accents. Contemporary notation on verso of image, "H.P. Wicker" of Boston. Image lightly but evenly toned. A charming, impressionistic watercolor scene of paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, painted..... More
Hudson, Mi. 1898. 40pp. Original red printed wrappers; front cover detached. Spine and covers chipped, contemporary library ink stamps on front cover and title page. Internally clean, though a bit fragile, several leaves loosening. Poetry published in the tiny town of Hudson, Michigan, near the Ohio border. One poem, "At..... More
Detroit: 1927. 16pp. plus two return mail forms laid in. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Lengthy brochure advertising a course for women's beauty and improvement offered by Roy J. Horton of Detroit. Horton claims his course of six months can transform a woman into a vital..... More
Columbus: 1914. 33pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, heavier to spine. Internally clean. A report prepared following the enactment of an Ohio constitutional amendment requiring the state to set a minimum wage. This report summarizes responses to a state-wide survey about women's wages in department stores..... More