![This Is a Response to Adkins' Campaign of Hate [caption title]. Arkansas](/pictures/thumb/McBRB518.JPG?v=1552571968)
Little Rock: [1944]. Printed broadside, 22.5 x 17 inches. Light, even tanning. An unrecorded political broadside from the 1944 Arkansas Senate race between Homer Adkins and William Fulbright. Adkins was a member of the Klan, who financed his early political victories, and their unsavory views remained a hallmark of his..... More
San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co., 1893. 90pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, a bit chipped. Light toning to first and last leaves. Minor scattered foxing. "This annotation of the General Street Law, as amended in 1889, 1891 and 1893, attempts only to clarify the text where that..... More
![Extra Globe [caption title]. Campaign Newspaper, Democratic Party](/pictures/thumb/McBRB166_01.JPG?v=1550754302)
[Washington, D.C.]: Blair & Rives, 1840-1841. 423pp. Volume 6, Numbers 1:27, paginated continuously. Folio. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. Boards detached, with tape repairs. Light dampstaining at upper corner; light tanning and foxing. A complete run of this 1840 Democratic campaign newspaper, published weekly as an extra to the..... More
Mexico City: Imprenta Moderna Pintel, 1972. 121pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Very minor soiling to wraps; light wear at edges and spine ends. Internally clean. Unusual anti-Vietnam fiction with a Chicano protagonist. The main character, Eduardo O'Reilly Menendez, states that he was born "in the south of a state that used..... More
San Francisco: Bunker & Hiester, 1877. xxiii,[1],184pp. plus three maps (one folding). Original yellow printed wrappers. Some light wear and soiling, minor chipping to spine ends. Internally clean. Work on the election law of California, covering a broad range of material from the Constitution of the United States to information..... More
Kansas City, Mo. [ca. 1921]. Ten items, most single sheets plus one larger folding poster. Stapled at top edge. Poster with separations at folds, one closed tear. Moderate tanning. Interesting group of advertising and testimonial materials for the C.T. Ludwig Detective Training Correspondence School in Kansas City, Missouri. These include..... More
New York: Edmonson Economic Service, 1934-1940. Approximately 375 broadsheets and handbills. Folio. Minor wear and soiling. An extensive archive of approximately 375 propaganda handbills, broadsides, flyers, and newsletters primarily written by Robert Edmonson and published in New York that promote an anti-Semitic, anti-New Deal, “America First” agenda during the 1930s..... More
![Protection to American Labor and to American Industry [caption title]. Election of 1888](/pictures/thumb/McBRB34.JPG?v=1541277159)
New York: Ballin & Berman, 1888. Large silk handkerchief, approximately 18.5 x 21.5 inches. Printed in red and blue. Quarter-inch tear at lower right corner, one small pinhole at upper right. A few very small patches of staining, light dust soiling. A rare piece of ephemera from the U.S. Presidential..... More
![Archive of a Police Patrolman's Logs from WWII-Era Cincinnati, Ohio]. Elmer W. Eubanks](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1379_01.JPG?v=1594045628)
Cincinnati: 1943-1946. Twelve notebooks, [358]pp. total. 12mo. Stapled sheets, stapled at top edge. No covers. Some light wear and soiling, but generally clean and in a legible hand. World War II-era manuscript log books kept by Cincinnati, Ohio police officer Elmer Winder Eubanks (1913-2012). Eubanks began his career in law..... More
Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1882. [2],[19-]111,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. A few small chips and some dampstaining to wraps. Light wear along top edge of text block. Moderate dampstaining to initial leaves; light, even tanning throughout. A well illustrated and scarce iteration of the many sensational Guiteau biographies and trial accounts..... More
Washington, D.C. 1838. 120pp., plus map. 20th-century half calf and cloth boards, spine gilt. Minor wear at corners and edges. Some tanning and light foxing. "This pamphlet written and published by Manuel Gorostiza, special envoy of Mexico to the United States, with its 21-page introduction attacking the good faith of..... More
Mexico City; New York: 1875; 1882. Five volumes in one, varying paginations. Later quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered. Light wear to raised spine bands and edges, minor scuffing to boards. Manuscript contents list on front free endpaper. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Mexico and Guatemala quarreled over..... More
![The Currency Question. In the Supreme Court of the State of California [cover title]. Henry H....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1181.JPG?v=1579207467)
[San Francisco]: B.F. Sterett, [1864]. 101pp. Original printed wrappers. Light vertical crease. Light chipping to spine ends and corners, light foxing and soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on rear cover. A few pencil notes to text. Legal argument by a future governor of California in an important case relating to the..... More
New York: G. & R. Waite, 1804. 78pp. Dbd. Trimmed close at lower edge, occasionally affecting last line of text; light damage at lower edge of initial two leaves. Light tanning and foxing. An important record of speeches before an upstate New York court in a landmark First Amendment case..... More
![Archive of Ephemera from Judson Harmon's 1912 Presidential Campaign]. Judson Harmon, Election of...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB371.JPG?v=1551727907)
[Columbus, Oh. 1912]. Eight pieces, including one 12pp. pamphlet and seven broadsides and bifolia. Old folds, light wear. Several items evenly tanned. An informative group of eight extremely scarce or unrecorded pieces promoting the presidential campaign of Ohio Governor, and former U.S. Attorney General, Judson Harmon in 1912. Harmon eventually..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. 189pp. 24mo. Original red printed pictorial card covers. Minor wear. Signed on the title page by Ladybird Johnson. In a custom clamshell box. Fourth printing of this work, a parody on Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, filled instead with pithy, down-home quotes from President..... More
![Printed Union Loyalty Oath for Eastern Louisiana and New Orleans, Completed in Manuscript]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB213.JPG?v=1550980172)
[New Orleans]: January 12, 1864. Broadside, 10.5 x 13.5 inches. Old folds. Repaired with tape on verso at central fold and once on either edge. Printed loyalty oath certificate, completed in manuscript, from the Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. It reads, with..... More
Washington DC: 1879. 9pp. Stitched; stitching perished, leaves loose. Lightly soiled, some chipping and wear to first leaf. A rare speech given by the Senator from Ohio, Stanley Matthews, arguing against a bill restricting Chinese immigration to the United States. These debates were part of the political outcry against the..... More
Mexico City: 1866. 13pp. Folio. Original plain wrappers, stitched as issued. Wraps split along lower half of spine. Previously folded, with light wear and minor creasing. Contemporary pencil ownership inscription Light tanning and scattered foxing. A rare bilingual imprint in Spanish and Nahuatl that publishes the text of several decrees..... More
![New Northwest -- Supplement. Constitution of the State of Montana [caption title]. Montana](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1442_01.jpg?v=1594045555)
[Deer Lodge, Mt.]: 1889. Large broadsheet, 26 x 20.5 inches. Old folds. Separation at some folds with slight losses affecting several words in six lines of text. Light toning and soiling. A rare supplemental issue of the New Northwest printing the newly-passed Montana State Constitution. Montana held its constitutional convention..... More
1914. [5]pp. typescript, signed in manuscript. Minor wear and soiling. Five copies of a letter addressed to “the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Miles City Mont.”, each signed by a different labor union and embossed with its seal, encouraging the abolishment of the chain gang and a cessation of..... More
![A Vindication of President H.O. Ladd [cover title]. New Mexico, Horatio O. Ladd](/pictures/thumb/McBRB792.JPG?v=1565781368)
Santa Fe: 1889. 17pp. Printed in two columns. Original beige printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling; top half of spine reinforced with tape. Minor creasing and wear. A rare pamphlet published to defend the reputation of the first University of New Mexico president, Horatio O. Ladd, who had been accused..... More
![Who Is Responsible for the Colorado Trouble [cover title]. Joseph Shatz Shatzke](/pictures/thumb/McBRB130.jpg?v=1544361036)
Colorado Springs: Argus Job Print, 1904. 12pp. Drab self-wrappers, stapled. A few small ink stains. In a custom cloth slipcase and chemise. Rare pamphlet defending the strikes of unionized miners in Colorado during 1903 and 1904. The author principally addresses events surrounding the strikes at Cripple Creek, Telluride, Idaho Springs..... More
[Stanford, Ky. 1805]. Two autograph documents, [2]pp. total, with docketing on verso. Previously folded. Some creasing and light wear. Moderate tanning. Two documents signed by Joel Atkinson as Justice of the Peace of Lincoln County, Kentucky concerning a slave case there in the summer of 1805. The first, dated July..... More
Waco: 1858. 40 manuscript leaves, on rectos only of legal-sized sheets. Ribbon tied, affixed with county seal. Light offsetting from seal on first leaf. Light wear and tanning; a few stray ink stains. A certified manuscript record of a civil case adjudicated in Waco, Texas in 1858 that was headed..... More