Dayton, Oh. The Otterbein Press, [1923]. 30pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers, stapled, with photographic portrait of Manly on front wrapper. Minor soiling and staining to wrappers. The rare updated second edition after the first of 1919, relating the story of David Jayn Manly's life from Sierra Leone to his college experiences..... More
Ashtabula, Oh. January 29, 1849. [1]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter, somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field, an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula, Ohio..... More
![Item #3512 What Is the Vanguard League? [cover title]. Civil Rights, Vanguard League](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3512.JPG?v=1668771093)
Columbus, Oh. Vanguard League, March 1, 1944. [4]pp., on a single 5.5-x-12-inch sheet of beige paper, folded twice. Minor soiling, creasing, and edge wear, small illegible ink signature on rear blank. A very rare informational leaflet published by the Vanguard League, providing background on the organization's origins and objectives through..... 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
![Item #371 [Archive of Ephemera from Judson Harmon's 1912 Presidential Campaign]. Judson Harmon,...](/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
Dayton, Oh. [1851]. 143,[2]pp. 12mo. Original drab printed wrappers. Light chipping and wear. Text lightly foxed. Fourth edition of this German-American work of songs, the title of which translates loosely as, "A Short Pastime, Consisting of a Few Songs, Useful in Ethics." The title page has a woodcut of two..... More
St. Clairsville, Oh. Horton J. Howard, 1833. 187,xiv,202-204pp. plus folding chart. 12mo. Original printed boards with calf spine. Light wear and soiling, boards rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown. Text lightly tanned, some scattered foxing and soiling. Scarce grammar work printed in a small town in Ohio near the..... More
Pomeroy, Oh. 1901. 15 original photographs, each approximately 3.75 x 4.75 inches, mounted on heavy card. Slight curling to mounts. Detailed manuscript notations on verso of each mount except two. Clean and clear images. A striking group of fifteen mounted photographs that depict the town of Pomeroy, Ohio, before and..... More
Cincinnati: Printed by J.B. & R.P. Donogh, [1839]. 520pp. plus 10 plates. Lacks pp.25-26. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Scattered foxing and soiling to text, outer leaves with some chipping and wear. Top half of pp.43-46 cut away (ads), likewise bottom half of pp.55-56 (also ads). A solid copy..... More
Cincinnati: 1842. Two letterpress broadsides, 16 x 7.25 inches and 17 x 6.25 inches, respectively. Old folds, noticeable foxing, moderate edge wear, two-inch vertical closed tear to bottom edge of one broadside. A handsome pair of patriotic broadsides printed in Cincinnati for two separate celebrations of July 4th by the..... More
Cleveland: Clark-Britton Printing Co., [1890]. [36]pp. Oblong small folio. Embossed and printed wrappers, rivet bound at gutter margin. Light wear to wraps. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Minor dust soiling and dampstaining; occasional faint foxing. An attractive and well-produced photographic promotional for the Short Electric Railway Company of..... More
Cincinnati: [1855-1856]. Five issues and supplements, totaling [72]pp. Spines reinforced. Light tanning and dust soiling; scattered, faint foxing. A lengthy extra issue of the Railroad Record, with four additional eight-page supplements, that together comprise a ringing endorsement from this industry periodical and its editors of the southern route through Texas..... More
Colorado Springs: 1956-1957. Twenty-five scripts, totaling 335 pages, each between seven and twenty-three pages, each with a pictorial title leaf, all stapled, plus two ephemeral items, totaling nine pages. Minor edge wear and light toning. Ephemeral items folded. A complete run of transcripts for all twenty-five episodes of DelVina Wheeldon's..... More
Columbus: 1914. 33pp. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, heavier to spine. Internally clean. A report prepared following the enactment of an Ohio constitutional amendment requiring the state to set a minimum wage. This report summarizes responses to a state-wide survey about women's wages in department stores..... More