Cambridge, Ma. Harvard Society for Minority Rights, [1956]. Printed broadside handbill, 8.5 x 5.75 inches. Uneven toning, else very nice. A very rare handbill advertising a lecture and "Brotherhood Rally" delivered to the Harvard Society for Minority Rights by Dr. T.R.M. Howard, President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership..... More
![Item #1379 [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
[N.p. ca. 1935]. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a...... 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
Puebla: 1892. xii,123,[1]pp., plus twenty plates, of which nine folding. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Moderate wear to spine leather, edges, and corners; some scuffing to boards. Light toning and dust soiling. Borderline phrenological late-19th-century study of Mexican criminals by a pair of Pueblan army doctors, Francisco..... More
[Mineral del Monte: 1775]. [8]pp. Small folio. Stitched. Minor wear at edges. Light toning. Minor darkening and patchy staining at upper corner and along top edge. Fascinating documents of a murder in a colonial Mexican mining town during the late 18th century. Nicolas Gregorio Picazo was killed in the town..... More
Mexico City: Impresa en la Casa de Correccion de Jovenes, 1846. 90,[22]pp. Later marbled wrappers, edges sprinkled blue. A few small patches of staining to title page; otherwise, light, even tanning. An important and scarce book of regulations for the officials and workers in the Mexican tobacco industry just prior..... More
![Item #1949 The Mentor. Vol. V [Nos. 1-12]. Prison Magazines, Massachusetts](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1949_01.jpg?v=1631720585)
[Boston]: Charlestown Prison, 1904-1905. 502pp. Lithographed. Folio. Contemporary tooled calf; spine perished. Corners heavily worn, minor soiling to boards. Light toning and wear to contents, but generally clean. A complete run of the twelve issues comprising Volume 5 of the magazine printed at the Massachusetts State Prison. Content includes fiction..... More
[Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Co.], 1889. Variously paginated, as issued. Contemporary blue cloth, gilt titles. Minor wear to edges, light rubbing to gilt. Text somewhat tanned. A salesman's dummy for a true crime account concerned with an Irish American gang called the Clan-na-Gael. The work includes the relevant front matter..... More
![Item #1484 Corporation Court Docket & Fee Book. City of San Marcos [spine title]. Texas, Law](/pictures/thumb/McBRB1484_01.jpg?v=1607005205)
San Marcos, Tx. 1902-1908. [12],374pp. Large folio. Original half calf and cloth, spine gilt. Light wear and soiling to boards, spine and corners a bit scuffed. Contemporary typescript sheet pasted to front flyleaf. Minor soiling and wear to contents. Extensive, early 20th-century court docket recording book for the city of..... More
[N.p. ca. 1915-1925]. Eight silver gelatin photographs, 5.25 x 2.75 inches, all with pencil annotations on verso. Mild edge wear. An intriguing collection of eight annotated vernacular photographs picturing construction and other work taking place at an unnamed western riverside fort. The manual labor for the project was performed by..... More