[Various locations in California: ca. 1920-1940]. [159] leaves, rectos only. Light wear, some chipping at edges. Some manuscript corrections and annotations. A collection of twelve typescripts by actor and gunslinger Jack Ganzhorn. Ganzhorn (1878-1956) was an Arizona cowboy, soldier, and silent film actor; he also wrote articles and short stories..... More
[Raleigh, N.C. 1922]. 32pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Uniformly toned, minor chipping, faint marginal stain to lower corner throughout. A scarce autobiographical account of Evangelist Moses Laflaver Cummings (1876-1963), beginning with his life of crime in Florida through his conversion to Christianity. Cummings served as a Free Will Baptist..... More
Bayamon, P.R. 1944. 35pp. Original silver wrappers, rear cover lacking. Light wear to covers, ink stamp on front and inside. Text clean and crisp. Scarce biography of Puerto Rican composer and musician Braulio Dueño Colon (1854-1934), and a victim of the New York Public Library's microfilming project. An expanded second..... More
![Item #4570 Reinhold Forkel's Autobiography [caption title]. Reinhold Forkel](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4570_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699648586)
[N.p., but probably New York: ca. 1935]. [118] leaves of typescript printed on rectos only, plus a photographic frontispiece, three plates (one folding), and color manuscript map. Contemporary stiff card covers, tan leather backstrip, with a cyanotype of the author laid under a chipped clear acetate dust jacket. One other..... More
[San Antonio?]: Impreso por la Libreria Quiroga, 1915. 96pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear and and scattered staining. Moderate, even toning. An unusual "memoir" of Victoriano Huerta -- in fact an anonymous attack on his conduct during the Revolution from his coup against Madero, his presidency, his betrayal of other..... 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
Fresno, CA, but printed in Japan: Maha Maya Society, 1954. [2],[8],265,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original tan boards stamped in silver, original printed dust jacket. Minor wear. A scarce biography of a Japanese-American priest, the title of which roughly translates to "Brilliant Buddhism: From American to Japanese Buddhists." Kyogoku was..... More
![Item #5940 Shiroi Tsue ni Tayoritsutsu [Relying on a White Cane]. Japanese Americana, Tokinobu...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5940.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745933222)
San Francisco / Osaka: Oriental Culture Book Co., 1962. [2],158,[1]pp., plus photographic frontispiece portrait. Original green cloth, gilt spine titles. Minor wear. A rare autobiography by the blind Japanese American author; Mihara's photo shows him reading a Braille bible with his fingertips. When Mihara was interned at Heart Mountain (where..... More
Mexico: Juan de Ribera, 1684. [12], 62, [2] leaves. Quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript spine title, edges sprinkled red. Marca de fuego on top edge. Minor worming to initial leaves, slightly affecting text. Light tanning and scattered light foxing. The rare biography of Father Diego Rivera (ca. 1616-1680), who was..... 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
Auburn; Buffalo; London: Derby and Miller; Derby, Orton, and Mulligan, 1853. [4],336pp., plus frontispiece portrait and six plates. 12mo. Original publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners worn, cloth rubbed; patches of discoloration to rear board. Slightly later, pencil ownership inscription and annotation on front free endpaper recto. Scattered..... More
[N.p., likely Constantinople: 1891]. 38pp. Original printed wrappers. Dampstaining to front wrapper, some dust-soiling to wrappers, moderate edge wear, a few small chips. Mild, even toning to text, but otherwise clean. A personal memoir, written for his four children, by Elias Riggs, missionary and director of the American Board of..... More
Worcester, Ma. 1856. vi,[13]-143,[1]pp. 12mo. Original brown publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Chipping to head of spine, corners lightly bumped. Gift inscription on front flyleaf. Minor toning and foxing. First edition. "Thompson was one of seven children born into slavery on the Wagar plantation in Maryland in 1812..... More
![Item #5681 Executoria de Nobleca de Don Xpoual de Villalobos y Lara [manuscript cover title]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5681.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773330796)
Lima: [1626]. 62 [i.e. 61] leaves. Folio. Limp vellum, ruled and lettered in ink; edges sprinkled red and black. Some creasing and staining to vellum. Small tissue repair to first leaf of text. Occasional dampstaining and foxing. Accomplished in a highly legible hand. An outstanding and minutely-detailed colonial Spanish patent..... More