![Item #3937 Get a Head Start at the Library...[caption title]. African Americana, American Library...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3937.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681757042)
[N.p.]: American Library Association / Padgett & Walsh, 1985. Two color-printed, photographically-illustrated posters, each 34 x 22 inches. Minor edge and surface wear, one poster with two small gouges at center of the image area. A vibrant pair. A pair of promotional posters advertising the American Library Association's 1985 campaign..... More
Nashville: State Department of Education, 1935. 22pp. Original gray printed wrappers, stapled. Light discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing. Internally clean. A scarce state publication designed to guide teachers and librarians in segregated Tennessee in assembling a collection of works related to the African American experience. The Foreword reads, in..... More
[Nashville: 1937]. 16pp. Original self wrappers, stapled. Light soiling to outer wrappers. Internally clean. A very rare souvenir program issued by the Sunday School Publishing Board, an African American publisher located in Nashville, relating the organization's history, key figures, and describing in detail (floor by floor) the board's headquarters at..... More
[Various locations: 1919-1930]. Twenty-nine letters, signed, totaling thirty-six pages, all with original transmittal envelopes. Original mailing folds, general overall wear, and typical signs of age. Altogether a nice group. An entertaining archive of manuscript and typed letters sent to one of the more infamous figures in the history of New..... More
New York: July 6, 1878. [1]p., on G.P. Putnam's Sons letterhead. Original mailing folds, pencil notation on verso. A short but informative letter sent by Irving Putnam of G.P. Putnam's Sons regarding a potential book order by Mr. L.B. Hildreth. Irving Putnam was one of three sons of George Palmer..... More
Boston: Combination Publishing Company, [1886]. Broadsheet, 11.75 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, a few slight losses not affecting text. Lightly soiling and moderate wear. Ephemeral broadsheet advertising a new book, "A True Romance of the Rebellion" by Cyrus S. Haldeman, a veteran of the Civil War. "The story is unusually..... More
![Item #4448 [Promotional Poster for John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar]. Japanese Americana](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4448.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699648520)
[New York]: Times Books, [1988]. Photographically-illustrated poster, 19 x 24 inches. Minor wear. A promotional poster for the publication of John Armor and Peter Wright's Manzanar, a 1988 book that combined Ansel Adams' photographs with a powerful original essay by John Hersey entitled "A Mistake of Terrifically Horrible Proportions," along..... More
![Item #1699 [Small Archive of Ephemera from Crane & Co., Publishers in Topeka]. Kansas](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1699.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622221763)
Topeka: [ca. 1895]. Four pieces, detailed below. Old folds, some minor wear and soiling. Four pieces of ephemera from Crane & Co., "Printers, binders, and stationers, Topeka, Kansas." The earliest is an eight-page pamphlet printing sample pages from the General Statues of Kansas, 1889. The second piece is printed on..... More
![Item #3866 Shea's Library of American Linguistics [caption title]. Native American Linguistics](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3866.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680132122)
[New York: ca. 1862-1865]. 3pp., on a single folded sheet. Old soft vertical crease, slight discoloration along spine fold, tiny chip at bottom of spine fold. A rare prospectus detailing the publications offered by John G. Shea as part of his Shea's Library of American Linguistics (a more accurate description..... More
Sinsinati: Elias Longley, 1861. 343pp. plus [4]pp. of ads. Original green publisher's cloth, spine gilt. Corners heavily worn, top of spine partially perished and frayed, cloth moderately soiled. Text lightly toned, ad leaves moderately foxed, some light soiling. A quirky Midwestern publication -- the New Testament in phonetic spelling. The..... More
New York: [New York Protestant Episcopal Press], 1829. Broadside, 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds, foxing, creasing, and toning, with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press (NYPEP) and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New..... More
![Item #5393 The Story of the Philippines [salesman's sample]. Philippines, Murat Halstead,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Chicago: The Dominion Company, [1898]. Irregularly paginated, as issued, plus forty-eight pages of plates, mostly full-page monotone photographic plates. Quarto. Original pictorial cloth stamped in red, blue, and gilt. Minor wear to extremities, corners bumped. Text somewhat toned. A handsome salesman's dummy for Murat Halstead's history of the Philippines, written..... More
Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, 1913. [100]pp. Extensively illustrated. Original orange publisher’s cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Lightly sunned, corners bumped and lightly worn, lightly soiled. Light soiling and wear internally. Subscribers’ lists torn away at rear. Salesman’s sample of this work on doomsday calamities endured by various..... More
[Chicago? 1906]. [88]pp. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt stamped, front board with black-and-white illustration. Light wear and scuffing to boards. Light tanning internally. A salesman's dummy for a lurid and extremely popular contemporary history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This copy exemplifies the "fine cloth" version of the book..... More
New York: Street & Smith, 1903. 277,[9]pp. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached neatly along spine, minor soiling, chipping, and edge wear. Contents somewhat toned. An unusual issue of an obscure Upton Sinclair work published pseudonymously in 1903 under the pen name Lieutenant Frederick Garrison. The work is part of..... More
St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1926. [2],246pp. Original red cloth stamped in black. Minor scuffing and edge wear to boards. Hinges a bit over-opened, but very clean internally. A handsome pocket dictionary from the early-20th century produced as a promotional item for a shoe store in rural Texas. The front..... More
![Item #5434 Uncle Tom Learns to Write [caption title]. Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB5434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1732120173)
[London: Edward Lloyd, ca. 1852]. Lithographic broadside, 22 x 17 inches, printed on cheap, light orange paper. Minor wear, a few short closed edge tears, moderate toning. A tender but striking poster. A rare poster advertising an early British edition of Harriet Beecher Stowe's seminal novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The..... More
[Mexico: En la Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767]. 4 [of 10]pp. of preliminaries, 84 [of 128]pp. of text. Quarto. Late-19th-century quarter Mexican green sheep and marbled-paper covered boards, gilt spine titles. Spine faded, some abrading to the edges, small library label on front cover. Occasional minor foxing to text..... More