![Item #3096 [Two Photographs of an African American Teacher and Her Students in Jim Crow Texas]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3096.jpg?v=1659030847)
San Antonio: 1938. Two black-and-white photographs, each 2.75 x 4 inches. Light edge wear. Developer's stamp on verso of each. A pair of contemporary photographs featuring a neatly-dressed young Black woman with eight of her pupils. The first pictures the teacher and her students seated on the steps of a...... More
San Antonio: San Antonio Brewers Association, [ca. 1950s]. Seven-color lithograph including reproduced photographs of Calloway and a bottle of Pearl Beer, measuring 19.25 x 23.75 inches. Minor edge wear, faint dampstain along bottom edge, else a really nice example. Framed. An evocative piece of midcentury advertising art featuring Swing Band..... More
[Houston: 1944]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild toning, punch holes to top margin. A rare program for the commencement exercises for the 1944 midwinter graduating class of Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas. The program prints the lineup of speakers and songs, including "Let My People Go!"..... More
[Tyler, Tx. Texas College, 1937]. Pictorial handbill, 8 x 5 inches. Small marginal losses at top edge and bottom left corner, small puncture not costing any text, minor staining, paper remnants on verso likely from removal from a scrapbook. A seemingly-unrecorded promotional flyer advertising an April 23, 1937 performance by..... More
[Houston: 1935]. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some holes punched into the inner margin, repaired with tissue. A rare program for the end-of-term exercises of Blackshear Elementary School, a segregated primary school in Houston, Texas still in operation today. The program includes a one-act musical comedy, with synopsis and..... More
![Item #3482 Roots. Volume 1, No. 1 [cover title]. African Americana, Texas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3482_01.jpg?v=1661272685)
Houston: Texas Southern University [but printed by Armadillo Press, Austin], 1970]. [6],166,[4]pp. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Moderate soiling to wrappers, spine somewhat darkened, minor edge wear. Internally clean. A collection of over thirty-five poems, essays, short fiction, and more written mostly by the students and faculty of Texas Southern University, an..... More
Houston: 1934. 8pp. Quarto. Some chipping and a few closed tears at edges. Light tanning and dust soiling. Unrecorded pamphlet commemorating an opening ceremony for 1934 Negro History Week taking place at the St. John Baptist Church in Houston. The booklet contains the program, organized by the Negro History Club..... More
Fort Worth: Published for the Author, 1900. 486,xxxvii,[1]pp. plus frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Text clean. A comprehensive work on the Texas angora goat industry, illustrated with numerous handsome halftones of various goats. With discussions on the goat's production for both..... More
Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co., 1935. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front..... More
Denton, Tx. 1920-1938. [131]pp. Typescript on rectos only. Folio sheets, loose. Light wear and soiling, primarily at edges. Manuscript corrections and notations throughout. An apparently unpublished typescript of a story about ranch life in Texas at the turn of the century. There is substantial detail about ranch life, farming practices..... More
[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas: 1862-1866]. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other..... More
New York: 1877. 31,[1]pp. Folio. Original orange pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling, some minor loss to wrappers. Text toned, slight biopredation to final leaf. A lovely catalogue of patterns for clothing of all types issued by E. Butterick & Co. The catalogue opens with styles for ladies' coats and..... More
Paris: Jean, Quai des Augustins, [1818]. Handcolored engraving, 15.25 x 11.5 inches. Hinged to a backing with archival tape and matted. Old horizontal folds, moderate foxing and spotting, minor edge wear. A nicely margined and handsomely colored example. A wonderful handcolored engraving echoing the spirit that led Napoleonic loyalists to..... More
Houston: Gray, Dillaye & Co., 1909. viii, 230pp. Modern half black morocco and black cloth, spine gilt, preserving original gilt cloth label on front cover reading, "A.C. Gray." Title page a bit chipped, diagonal crease in first few text leaves, moderate even toning to text. The printer's copy of one..... More
Houston: Gray, Dillaye & Co., 1909. viii, 230pp. Contemporary black limp leatherette, with gilt titles on front cover and "Alice Gray Sears McGee" stamped at the bottom. Title page a bit chipped, with two brown cello repairs to both title and the first leaf of the Preface, the latter of..... More
[Sedalia, Mo. ca.1907]. [36]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original yellow printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, contemporary pencil notation on front cover. Slight biopredation to upper corner, continuing through text. Contents clean. A catalogue of nineteen horses for sale at the San Antonio fair, each with a half tone illustration and..... More
Austin: E.L. Steck, 1915. [22]pp. Oblong octavo. Original green printed wrappers, string-tied. Light wear and chipping to edges, slightly faded. Internally clean. Handsome promotional work for the city of Austin, Texas, compiled and published by the American National Bank on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The work is extensively..... More
Tokyo: Hokubai kanno doshikai honbu, 1904. Broadside, 21 x 7 inches. Old folds and wrinkles, a few pin holes in the upper margin, with the Hokubei Kanno Doshikai red chop stamp in lower margin. A very rare and seemingly-unrecorded 1904 colonization scheme document issued by Hokubei Kanno Doshikai, promoting investment..... More
Chicago: American Lumberman, 1902. [2],196pp. Quarto. Original red limp cloth, cover gilt. Light soiling and wear to binding. Contemporary ownership pencil markings throughout, text dampstained around the edges, light scattered soiling. Extensively illustrated work on the operations of the Kirby Lumber Company, a division of the Houston Oil Company, originally..... More
New Orleans: Pelican Job Print, 1867. Broadside, 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Broadside circular advertising the services of James W. Price, "merchandise and produce broker" located at No. 34 Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. The text reads: "I will give..... More
New Orleans: The Daily Item, 1899. 600pp. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Extremities worn, covers rubbed and lightly soiled. Some slight worming, heavier at front of text. Light tanning and wear. A rare New Orleans almanac full of facts and figures on a wide array of subjects ranging from Queen Victoria's..... More
Brazos Santiago: February 18, 1847. [2]pp. plus integral blank, second leaf addressed on verso. Old folds. Small hole in address leaf from removed wax seal. An original wartime correspondence from Lieutenant Arthur Lansing, a quartermaster officer recently arrived at the principal Mexican-American War Gulf Coast supply depot and transportation hub..... More
Carmago, Mexico: June 21, 1847. [2]pp., in Spanish, on a single folded sheet, verso of integral leaf addressed on verso. Original mailing folds, mild wrinkling, minor toning to address panel, small chip to outer blank portion of integral leaf. A hand-carried letter from a Mexican merchant or lawyer named Francisco..... More
![Item #3034 Constitucion Politica del Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua [cover title]. Mexico](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3034.jpg?v=1651852390)
El Paso, Tx. 1921. 48pp. Narrow octavo. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Lightly and evenly tanned, paper brittle with several small chips or tears. Ownership ink stamp of Chihuahua newspaper editor Silvestre Terrazas on first and least leaf. A 1921 edition of the 1887 constitution of the state of Chihuahua, published..... More
Mexico City: April 17, 1837. 10pp. Small folio. 20th-century buckram, front board gilt lettered. Minor creasing and occasional offsetting. Rare and extensive decree that sets forth the administration and regulation of agriculture and related taxes by the federal government in the individual states and departments of Mexico, promulgated on April..... More