Twenty-five recent acquisitions including archives, photography, rare Western American imprints, and more. Highlights include a complete set of Civil War muster rolls for the 39th Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, unrecorded auction catalogues of Oklahoma Indian land, the first pamphlet printed in the Dakota Territory, an early Cincinnati directory with a "colored" section, utopias, and the archive of a Texas woman in the late-19th century.
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Washington, D.C. 1939. [5],238pp. Folio. Original dark green printed covers. Light wear to covers. Internally clean. A rare typed and extensively illustrated manual for automobile mechanics belonging to the Civilian Conservation Corps. This work, according to the title page, was revised and corrected from an edition originally published in 1937..... 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
![Item #526 The Texas Stamp. A Monthly Journal Devoted to Philately [caption title]. Texas](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB526.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1553198515)
Fort Worth: T.P. Martin, Jr. & Co., 1886. Vol. 1, No. 1. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Light wear, a few small chips at edges. The first issue of this short-lived Texas periodical on stamps and stamp collecting, edited by B.G. Chaney. The feature article is titled “Advice of a...... More