[Various locations: mainly 1920s]. [51] leaves, illustrated with 205 sepia-toned photographs in mounting corners, and another handful loose in the album or stored behind other images, about a third captioned in white pencil on the album leaves. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth. Moderate soiling and edge wear. Minor occasional wear..... More
[Various locations in New York: ca. 1960-1971]. Sixty-five photographs, thirteen pieces of ephemera, and one typed letter. Most items with one or more duplicates. Condition strong, with most items near fine; one flyer rather chipped and worn. Archive of materials documenting the fabulous career of dancer, model, actress, writer, real..... More
[N.p., possibly Fresno: ca. 1905]. Broadside, 13 x 5 inches. A few small nicks to edges, minor even toning, old horizontal folds. Lecture location stamp added in bottom margin, reading "Southport Monday Eve. Aug 28th K.P. Hall." An apparently unrecorded broadside advertising a magic lantern presentation aimed at promoting land..... More
![Item #5578 [Collection of Playbills from the Gran Teatro Payret in Cuba]. Cuba, Theatre](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5578.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1739820542)
[Havana]: Moises V. Codina, 1908. Seven broadsides, each approximately 22 x 7.25 inches, plus one double bill, measuring about 22 x 15 inches. One broadside printed in red and black. Previously folded. Scattered , shallow tears from edges, not affecting text, with some tape repairs on blank versos. A group..... 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
[N.p. ca. 1935]. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a...... More
![Item #6292 Flight for Buddhism. Devotional Program [caption title]. Japanese Internment](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6292.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781203935)
Poston, Az. June 25, 1944. [2]pp., on a bifolium. Light wear at bottom edge. Even tanning. The program for the second event of the Young Buddhists Association at the Poston relocation center to bring members of the different camp units together. The units were set apart from each other in..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1898. 30pp. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wraps faded, with light wear to spine and edges; a few short, closed tears, small chips, etc. Scarce "melodrama biblico," which dramatizes the Cain and Abel story into a short play in two acts. The..... More
![Item #5199 Cancionero "Occidental" Numero 63 [& Num. 68] [caption title]. Mexico, Music](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5199.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1754314736)
Guadalajara: B. Carillo, [ca.1940]. Two issues, each [12]pp. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Spines perishing, light chipping and wear at fore-edges. Moderate toning internally. A pair of issues of this scarce and ephemeral, mid-20th-century songster published in Guadalajara. Each issue contains lyrics to upwards of one hundred songs, printed cheek-by-jowl..... More
[Various places in California, New York & Mexico: ca. 1950s-1960s]. Sixty items total, including fifty-five photograps and five posters. Generally light wear. An attractive archive of visual materials, including posters, broadsides, original photographs, and real photo postcards, that promote leading mariachi singers and musicians of the mid-20th century, including Salvador..... More
[Various places in Oklahoma: ca. 1920]. Eight broadsides, measuring from 9.5 x 7 to 15 x 11 inches. Varying degrees of wear, with some scattered chips and closed tears at edges. Even tanning. Eight broadsides, including one duplicate, for professional wrestling matches in Oklahoma and Kansas during the early 1920s..... More
Dallas: Carter & Gibson, 1883. Small silk broadside, 8.5 x 3.5 inches. Frayed at edges, cut from a fabric printing multiple advertisements. Minor soiling and foxing. Scarce silk handbill that advertises a performance of the play “Banker’s Daughter” on, April 6, 1883 at Craddock's Opera House in Dallas. Craddock opened..... More
![Item #5028 Spectacle Lyro-Magique, Boulevard Montmratre [sic] 10, ou Passage Jouffray 16. Tous...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5028.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1737470587)
[Paris: ca. 1980]. Broadside, approximately 18 x 11.5 inches. Old folds, minor wear. An apparently unrecorded late-19th century broadside advertising an evening's entertainment in the Passage Jouffroy, Paris, featuring a performance by the "negro singers" of an unspecified theater from New York ("Données par les Chanteurs Nègres, du Théâtre de..... More
[Merida]: Imprenta Constitucionalista, ca. 1910]. Broadside, approximately 10.5x15 inches. Previously folded. Two short, internal tears, with no loss of text or image. Evenly tanned; faint tide line at left margin. Ephemeral, early 20th-century Mexican broadside for performances of a traveling theater troupe starring Spanish actress Prudencia Grifell at the Teatro..... More
[Various locations: 1927-1928]. [28] leaves, illustrated with seventy-five photographs, and numerous ephemeral items. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black paper-covered boards, string tied. Some chipping, scuffing, and soiling to boards. Contents worn and shaken, with some leaves detached or trimmed, some images detached. Still, a lively collection. A unique vernacular photograph album..... More