![Large Advertising Display for Pearl Beer Featuring Legendary Swing Band Leader, Cab Calloway]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3178.jpg?v=1654353183)
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. An evocative piece of midcentury advertising art featuring Swing Band leader..... More
[Waco, Tx. 1964]. [8]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor staining and rubbing, small area of insect damage to bottom edge of rear wrapper. The official program for a 1964 football game in Jim Crow Texas between two segregated African American high schools - Waco's Moore High Lions and..... 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
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 An apparently unpublished typescript of a story about ranch life in Texas at the turn of the century.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
![Jiri Machovsky Nebo Ze Tmy Ku Svetlu [cover title]. C. A. Chval](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3129_01.JPG?v=1651852623)
[Rosenberg, Tx. Tiskem Narodniho Podniku, 1918]. 74pp. 16mo. Original tan wrappers, printed in blue and red. Light wear and soiling. An interesting piece of Texana: an illustrated novella written in Czech and published in Rosenberg, Texas. The town of Rosenberg, located near Houston, was founded in 1883 with the arrival..... More
Tyler: Published by the Author, 1928. 208pp. Lacks pp.61-62. Original red cloth, cover gilt. Moderate soiling and wear, corners bumped. Minor scattered soiling, but contents generally clean. Community cook book compiled by Mary Davenport Bonner, who solicited recipes from a number of "club women" from across the country. Recipes are..... 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
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
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
Matamoros: May 6, 1847. [3]pp., on a bifolium, addressed on verso of second leaf. Original mailing folds, short closed tear to top edge, minor staining, some discoloration to address leaf. The Mexican-American War was fought in some particularly harsh environments in Texas and throughout Mexico. In the first half of..... More
![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
![Down to Mexico in Your Own Car [cover title]. Mexico, Automobiles](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1811_01.jpg?v=1614345844)
Mexico City: Asociacion Nacional Automovilistica, [1936]. 64pp. Original green pictorial card covers, stapled. Minor soiling and wear. Closed tear to p.19, substantial paper flaw with slight loss of text on p.43. Otherwise, internally clean. Attractive guide to the recently completed section of Pan-American Highway between Laredo and Mexico City, published..... More
![Ayuntam[ien]to de la Villa de Allende. Borradores de la Contestac[io]n del Ayuntam[ien]to con el...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2117_01.JPG?v=1629310203)
[Allende, Mx. 1830-1831]. [40]pp. Mixed folio and quarto sheets, haphazardly stitched. Light wear and dampstaining at edges; even tanning and light foxing throughout. Accomplished in several legible secretarial hands. A fascinating manuscript log of municipal bureaucracy during the early 1830s in the small Mexican village of Allende, southwest of the..... More
Mexico City: 1825. Two volumes in one. [2],xxvi,221,xi,[2]; [2],xviii,190,xviii,iii pp. Contemporary quarter calf and paper boards, spine gilt. Light rubbing and a pair of small perforations to spine leather. Edges worn; corners bumped. Light tanning, scattered foxing. A handsome copy of an early Mexican imprint that Lathrop Harper described succinctly..... More
Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8 inches. Short tear at upper right corner, unobtrusively repaired on blank verso. Minor dust soiling at edges. Rare broadside and first promulgation of this decree promising that the Mexican government will do all within its power to obtain the release..... More
Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, including a couple of small chips at edges. Minor wrinkling and toning at left edge. Contemporary manuscript annotations and docketing. A rare and significant Mexican broadside decree, dated May 20, 1836, promulgated by the Secretary of War..... More
Mexico City: 1836. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Light chipping and wear at corners. A rare broadside that promulgates a decree from the Mexican federal government, ordering that foreign goods be allowed into the port of Matamoros in order to supply the army in the war against Texas. It..... More
Mexico City: January 9, 1836. Broadside, 11.5 x 8.25 inches. Old folds, minor creasing. An exceedingly rare Mexican decree concerned with financing the Mexican Army during the early months of the Texas Revolution. Essentially, the decree called for slashing the budgets of other departments (or states) within the Mexican government..... More
Mexico City: 1841. 40pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine chipped, light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Minor toning. A scarce salvo in a brief Mexican pamphlet war over new tobacco taxes supposedly intended to fund a reinitiation of the war with Texas. Its authors, Joaquin Lebrija and Ignacio de la..... More
![Group of Typed Letters and Promotional Material for the Weepah-Tonopah Gold Mines Company]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB289.JPG?v=1561596272)
Amarillo, Tx. 1927. Six items, totaling [11]pp., plus three transmittal envelopes. Previously folded. A few short separations and light wear. Light tanning. A neat group of promotional material and letters from the Weepah-Tonopah Gold Mines Company, promulgated in the wake of a gold strike that triggered one of the last..... More
Saltillo: Severo Fernandez, 1886. 482,[1]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities moderately worn; contemporary binder's ticket on front pastedown. Title page separating from text block, contemporary ink stamp at head of page. Text lightly and evenly tanned, some faint dampstaining at edges, light scattered foxing..... More