St. Louis: 1961-1962. Fifty-two issues, [736]pp. Large folio. Green buckram, cover gilt. Light wear, upper board lightly warped by damp. Some faint dampstaining to upper edge of text block. Minor creasing at center fold, a few leaves with closed tears repaired. A few scattered ink underlinings. A bound volume of..... More
St. Louis: [1894]. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Light toning and dust soiling. Scarce advertisements for anti-Catholic lectures by Margaret Shepherd, a nativist speaker who impersonated an ex-nun to stoke anti-immigrant sentiment in the late 19th century. Shepherd headlined extensive national speaking tours, and authored a fictitious autobiography about her sordid..... More
![Item #5150 [Group of Ten Small Mugshot Photographs or Studio Shots of Criminals in Kansas]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5150.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724848511)
[Kansas City, Mo. 1895-1899]. Ten carte-de-visite photographs, 4 x 2.5 inches or slightly smaller, on thick cardboard mounts, four with partially-printed "rap sheets" on verso, completed in manuscript. Occasional edge and surface wear, as well as generally light dust-soiling. A nice group. A group of ten fabulous mugshot photographs or..... More
Kansas City, Mo. June, 1895. Title leaf, plus twenty-four leaves of cardstock illustrated with forty-nine sepia-toned photographs of varying sizes, each captioned in manuscript below the image. Cardstock leaves hinged on cloth. Oblong folio. Contemporary crimson three-quarter leather and matching textured cloth, "Photographs" stamped in gilt on front cover. Moderate..... More
[Emporia, Ks. & Avalon, Mo.]: 1886-1888. [90]pp. Primarily folio, with some smaller leaves. Light soiling and wear, some edge tears and chipping. Lightly soiled and toned. Highly legible. A small archive of notes and essays written by student Emil Pelz during his time at Avalon College in Missouri and subsequently..... More
St. Louis: 1877. [2],39pp. Original limp cloth covers, gilt. Light fading and wear. Library ink stamp on title page. Minor wear to contents. Memorial submitted to Congress by the members of the River Improvement Convention held in St. Paul, advocating for an allocation of government funds to improve the flow..... More
St. Louis: [ca. 1890]. Folding map, 16.75 x 16.5 inches; folded to 8.5 x 4 inches. Moderate wear, separation at some folds. Contemporary manuscript notations. Promotional brochure issued by the Missouri Land and Live Stock Company, advertising tracts of prime agricultural land in McDonald County. The interior is a map..... More
![Item #4234 Picturesque Marshall, Missouri [wrapper title]. Missouri](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4234.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716910328)
[N.p. J.W. McChesney, ca. 1900]. [38]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light dampstain in upper left corner, with some minor attendant damage. Scarce, early 20th-century photographic promotional for the town of Marshall, Missouri. The small town, located in Saline County midway between Kansas City and Columbia, was "third in the mule..... 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
Cape Girardeau, Mo. 1875-1892. [138]pp. of manuscript content. Folio. Contemporary preprinted record book, with some pages partially-printed and completed in manuscript and some pages with wholly manuscript content, bound in three-quarter calf and brown pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles. Some abrasions and wear to spine and edges, minor rubbing and..... More
[West Plains, Mo. West Plains Journal, ca. 1915]. Printed broadsheet, 10 x 5.5 inches, plus separate "Map of Howell County, Mo.," 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Even tanning and old folds to broadsheet; minor wear to map, old folds, a few manuscript additions to the area of the map, two contemporary..... More
![Item #3720 Photographs River des Peres Drainage Works Section J [cover title]. Missouri, River...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3720_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1669821616)
St. Louis: 1926-1931. Cover letter, plus 109 photographs, all 8 x 10 inches, including about thirty duplicate prints. Contemporary brad-bound wrappers, typed title label on front cover. Moderate soiling and significant edge wear and tearing to wrappers. Varying levels of marginal chipping to cover letter, first two photographs, and top..... More
[Various locations in Missouri]: May to June, 1891. [54]pp., rectos only. Small quarto. Contemporary limp dark brown leather, thin gilt borders and gilt lining on spine. Minor wear, spine head a bit tender. Clean internally. An interesting collection of observations on American business, politics, and more from the standpoint of..... More
Flat Woods, Va. December 10, 1855. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor wear. A detailed record of one man's travels upriver and overland to Missouri in search of a place to resettle. Jonathan Koiner (1820-1889) of Flatwoods, West Virginia, went on a western tour in 1855..... More