Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, [1951]. 112pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor edge wear. Small ownership ink stamps to front wrapper, title page, last text page, and inside rear wrapper. A seemingly-unrecorded collection of "real life stories" published for the Young People's Department of..... More

[New York: ca. 1940]. 32pp. Original dark gray wrappers stamped in blue. Very minor toning. A very rare autobiographical pamphlet in which Billy Roberts, an African American minister, recounts his life of addiction, alcoholism, and crime and his redemption in 1932 when he opens his "heart's door" to Jesus Christ..... More

Palatka, Fl. 1947. [5]pp., typed on folio sheets, stapled. Old folds, minor wear and creasing, light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hattie Q. Brown Club, asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka, Florida...to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave..... More

[Atlanta, Ga. late 1970s]. Three-color photographic portrait broadside, 11 x 28 inches, respectively. Left edge chipped and stained into the image area, old folds and creases. A campaign broadside touting the candidacy for J.O. Wyatt, Jr. Wyatt attended Morehouse College, earned a law degree from Emory, and worked for the..... More

[Coffeyville: Plaindealer Print, 1910]. 92pp. 16mo. Original gray wrappers printed in black. Minor wear and soiling to wrappers. Bottom corner of a few leaves creased, occasional light spotting to text. A very rare work relating to the Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia..... More

New York: 1863. 48pp. Original printed wrappers. Very minor edge wear. Light foxing on text edges, but clean internally. A tight, square copy. A rare work containing important information on the New York City Draft Riots, including first-hand accounts by African-American victims of the bloody events in mid-July 1863. Between..... More

Boston: February 20, 1862. 4pp. on a single sheet of newsprint. Folded, split along top central vertical fold lines of both leaves with minimal loss, bottom portion of spine fold also split, some edge darkening and minor chipping. A rare surviving issue of The Pine and Palm, an abolitionist newspaper..... More

[N.p., likely Camp Funston, Ks. ca. 1918]. 44pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, some adhesive remnants and small abrasions on rear wrapper, likely resulting from removal from a scrapbook, previous owner's signature on front wrapper, "W.E. Howard." Soft vertical crease throughout. A pocket-sized book of regulations governing the..... More

Mexico City: Imprenta Imperial de D. Alejandro Valdes, 1823. 4,[2]pp. Loose sheets, neatly removed from a sammelband. Uneven left edge. Light dust soiling. An important and scarce document that seeks to ensure public support for the installation of a federal congress as part of a representative government in independent Mexico..... 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

Oakland: Howe Print Company, [ca. 1895]. 43pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps, heaving along spine and at staples points. Paper somewhat browned, but sturdy. A scarce anti-everything screed by late 19th-century Oakland politician and crank, John H. Fones. In the present work, financial policy..... More

Sacramento: 1915. 62pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Minor wear at corners. Light tanning and occasional faint foxing. Scarce and extensive informational pamphlet issued by the California Secretary of State regarding state constitutional amendments and referendum measures being put before voters in a special 1915 election. Two laws passed by the state..... More

San Francisco: Jos. Winterburn & Co., 1886. 14pp., plus advertisement leaf. Original printed wrappers bound into 20th-century black quarter leather and marbled boards. Erased signature and small inked numeral to front wrapper. A rare California entry in the ongoing 19th-century and early-20th century debate over the prohibition of alcoholic beverages..... More