![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
Ciudad Victoria: [Samuel Bangs], 1828. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously bound, with stab holes at gutter margin. Moderate wear at edges, with a few losses and separation along fold, not affecting text. Light dust soiling and foxing. A scarce proposal to address budgetary deficits through tax policy in the Mexican..... 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
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? 1890]. Twelve handbills, each approximately 9 x 6 inches, plus 7pp. pamphlet and three small promotional cards. Mounted to card backings. Several chips and short closed tears at edges. Tanned. An interesting series of twelve small broadsides or handbills relating to the 1890 California state elections, in which..... 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
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
Ogdensburgh, N.Y. Hitchcock, Tillotson & Stillwell's Steam Presses, 1857. 130pp. Original pictorial wraps. Remnants of plain overwraps on spine and gutter margins of wrappers. Some wear at edges, particularly to initial leaves. Light tanning and dust soiling; occasional patches of light dampstaining. A lengthy and scarce account of a trial..... 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
Indianapolis: Central Printing Co., 1880. 16pp. Original blue printed wrappers. Moderate soiling and wear, heavier to lower edge and outer leaves. Evenly toned. Scarce first edition of this pamphlet regarding the circumstances of the murder of John R. Goodwin in Brookville, Indiana, published under the auspices of the Women's Christian..... 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
Berkeley, Ca. 1907. 133pp. Original printed wraps. Corners and spine ends chipped; minor fading to spine and wrapper edges. Contemporary ownership inscription on title page. Minor toning. An extensive treatment of institutional and social racism against Japanese immigrants in California during the early 20th century. The author, Herbert Johnson, had..... More
Mexico City: Ignacio Cumplido, 1861. [iii-]xxvii,612pp. Original quarter calf and pebbled paper boards, spine gilt. Boards rubbed, edges and spine somewhat worn. Small shelf label at foot of spine. Light toning, scattered light foxing. A scarce, 1861 Mexican imprint, comprising translations into Spanish of speeches by the great French poet-politician..... More
Washington, D.C. 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
Mexico City: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1847. 12pp. 12mo. Dbd. Trimmed somewhat close at fore-edge. Closed tears from bottom edge of final three leaves near gutter margin. Light tanning. Amidst the Mexican-American War and rising unrest within the country, the Mexican government sought to pacify protests and create a sense..... More
Mexico City: 1844. [3]pp., on a small bifolium. Light wear at edges. Small wormhole through center, not affecting text. Light dust soiling. A scarce decree of Mexican interim president Valentin Canalizo, printed and published by the Ministry of Foreign Relations on December 2, 1844, which attempted to dissolve the government..... More
Guanajuato: Impresos por Felix Conejo, 1851. 196,[201]-204,[2],[205]-219; 186; 200; 99pp. Four volumes in one. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with leather label. Extremities lightly rubbed, boards lightly scuffed; older paper label on spine. Internally clean. Extremely scarce printings of decrees by the Guanajuato state legislature passed prior to..... More
Mexico City: 1884. [4],354pp. Quarto. Original red leather, gilt and elaborately embossed with the eagle of Mexico on the front cover and initials on the rear; gilt endpapers, edges stained red, white, and green. Light wear and soiling to spine, corners rubbed. Internally clean. The 1884 "Edicion Oficial" of the..... 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
![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