Brooklyn: Bunny Studio, 1960. Seventeen leaves, with thirty-four black-and-white photographs, each 8 x 10 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary off-white pebbled leather, gilt stamping on front cover reading, "Our Wedding Anne and Earl April 17, 1960." Photographs individually inserted into cloth picture window sleeves, then mounted into corners of album leaves..... More
New York: 1979-1983. 129 photographs, mostly color but also some black-and-white images, organized in laminated sleeves, most images 3.5 x 5 inches, but with five images measuring 5 x 7 inches, and three images measuring 8 x 10 inches. Contemporary plain blue vinyl three-ring binder, with handwritten label affixed to..... More
[Buffalo: 1937]. Photo-illustrated broadside, approximately 12 x 9 inches. Tanned, darker around the edges, with minor creasing. Small manuscript note at bottom, reading "Buffalo, 1937." A striking and seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising a speech by James W. Ford, the "Outstanding Negro Leader - twice Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist..... More
Sandy Creek, N.Y. 1895. Broadside, 12.25 x 5.5 inches. Uniformly tanned, old folds, moderate marginal chipping. Mounted to slightly larger cardboard backing. A seemingly-unrecorded broadside advertising a performance by an African-American singing troupe while on the road in New York. Somewhat incongruously, the Original and Famous New Orleans Jubilee Singers..... More
[Mainly Cleveland, Oh.; New York, NY; Atlanta, Ga. 1927-2008]. Three photograph albums, some loose photographs, various programs and pamphlets, a matted printed illustration, three framed photographs, plus assorted ephemera. General wear throughout, with some covers of albums and various leaves detached. General overall wear to photographs, commensurate with long survival..... 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
[Albany: NAACP Northeastern Region, ca. 1965]. Four-color broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Soft central horizontal crease, minor adhesive remnants on verso from former mounting. A striking four-color broadside produced by the New York State Conference of the NAACP in Albany to encourage African American men and women to exercise their..... More
[Various locations: ca. 1930s to 1970s]. [48] leaves, illustrated with 260 mounted photographs, most black-and-white but some in color, between 1.5 x 1.5 to 8 x 10 inches, and a few ephemeral items. Full brown pebbled leather photograph album, screw-bound. Moderate edge wear and some chipping, front joint split but..... More
Nueva York: A.B. Allen & Co., 1849. [4],114,[2]pp. Profusely illustrated with in-text illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter black calf and green cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Light wear and dust-soiling to boards. Some discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing to rear wrapper. Small typed name label added..... More
[New York? ca. 1820s]. Narrow folio broadside, 20.25 x 8.75 inches, printed in two columns. Old folds, moderate foxing and staining, a few tiny areas of loss at crossfolds. A lovely letterpress broadside printing a narrative poem of forty-two four-line stanzas, arranged in two columns inside simple typographical borders comprised..... More
[New York? 1831?]. Broadsheet, 18 x 9.5 inches. Moderate foxing and soiling, dampstaining to one edge. Roughly cut along each side. A rare broadsheet of American verse, containing several ballads that recount tales of religious faith, both good and bad, and of tragic death. The verso contains two songs that..... More
Novo York: 1839. Original mottled calf, spine gilt ruled, leather label. Boards scuffed, calf somewhat worn at edges and along spine. Pastedowns detaching from boards. A scarce Portuguese New York imprint, comprising the Catholic New Testament. The translator, Antonio Pereira de Figueiredo, was a Portuguese monk who completed his vernacular..... More
Troy, N.Y. L.R. Burleigh, 1890. Lithograph, 16 x 25 inches. Lightly but evenly tanned. Some light scattered soiling, primarily to caption area. Rare and early view of Cleveland, New York, located on the northern shore of Oneida Lake just north of Syracuse. At the time, the village of Cleveland had..... More
![Item #3550 Paul Robeson as Othello [cover title]. Broadway, Paul Robeson](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3550.jpg?v=1667402626)
New York: 1943. 20pp. Profusely illustrated. Original self wrappers printed in red, stapled. Minor dust-soiling, some edge wear to wrappers. Minor dampstain to bottom edge throughout. The scarce souvenir booklet for the Theater Guild's 1943 production of Shakespeare's Othello, starring the noted African-American thespian, Paul Robeson. The opening of the..... More
[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine..... More
New York: 1877. 31,[1]pp. Folio. Original orange pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling, some minor loss to wrappers. Text toned, slight biopredation to final leaf. A lovely catalogue of patterns for clothing of all types issued by E. Butterick & Co. The catalogue opens with styles for ladies' coats and..... More
New York: 1854. Letterpress broadside, 14.5 x 9.25 inches, printed in three columns. Old folds, minor toning along fold lines, small loss just below center horizontal fold costing a few words, expertly repaired on verso, a couple of tiny areas of loss along center horizontal fold just touching a few..... More
Nueva York: Por Don Jorge W. Halsey, y Hermanos, 1838. ix,14pp., plus thirty-five engraved plates. Oblong quarto. Original half calf and patterned cloth, spine and front board gilt. Hinges cracking, with some separation at head of front joint; foot of spine chipped. Light wear and soiling to boards. Moderate toning..... More
Tokyo: Seikyosha, 1914. [2],3,1,18,498,[1]pp., plus forty-six plates (two folding). Text in Japanese. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt titles stamped on front cover and spine, top edge gilt. Minor shelf wear to boards. Binding a bit cracked at page 80, scattered, mostly minor foxing. An acerbic memoir by Japanese author Toichiro..... More
New York: Southwick & Pelsue, 1810. 385,[7]pp. Handsome modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather spine labels. Considerable foxing and some spotting to text, but otherwise a nice copy. Second American edition of this scarce account of one of the most tragic incidents in colonial New York, which unfortunately..... More
![Item #3705 Hokubei Inshoki [Impressions of North America]. Hakuson Kuriyagawa, Tatsuo Kuriyagawa](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3705_01.jpg?v=1672924803)
Tokyo: 1920. [4],4,375,[1]pp., plus three photographic plates. 16mo. Original limp black cloth, stamped in gilt, printed spine label. Moderate rubbing and creasing to boards, minor chipping to spine ends. A few leaves partially detached, but text block clean. A pocket-sized and abridged version of Kuriyagawa's popular Inshoki, a collection of..... More
[Various locations around New York City: Chester Studios and others, 1950-1960]. Eighty-eight black-and-white photographs, most approximately 8 x 10 inches, with five in slightly smaller format. Minor wear, some with adhesive remnants on versos, a few with editorial markings in the image area, most with photo credits and other information..... More
New York: 1902. [4],58pp. plus five plates (three folding). Folio. Original black publisher's cloth, cover gilt. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. "Prepared by the committee representing property owners of Park Avenue and Vicinity." Report stemming from several incidents of detrimental blasting and tunnel collapse in the subway..... More
Watervliet, NY: Century Printing Co., [1917]. Broadside, 8.5 x 6 inches. Evenly toned, a couple of shallow edge chips. A rare surviving flyer advertising a series of speeches at "The Final Mass Meeting" of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party before voting takes place for "Woman Suffrage Amendment No..... More
New York: [ca. 1860?]. Broadside, 15.75 x 9.75 inches. Old folds, some minor loss and chipping. Rare broadside prospectus for the New Universal Index Advertiser, a business newspaper in New York. The Universal Index Advertiser promoted itself as a paper that focused on the interests of business above all else..... More