Our latest list features twenty-four items new to inventory, covering a wide array of subjects and genres. Highlights include a large archive of 19th-century Illinois miner and entrepreneur David Seely; a muster roll for Buffalo soldiers in Texas; quack medicine from 19th-century Kansas; a promotional piece from a Montana ghost town; a copy of George Cunningham's Most Beautiful Women in Michigan; a map of Havana from the 1930s; a limited edition work signed by Teddy Roosevelt; Japanese orphans; and more. Enjoy!
Download PDF of List #13 - Americana: Recent Acquisitions![Item #1002 How about the Other "Fella?" Company 755 CCC [cover title]. Civilian Conservation Corps](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1002.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1574705081)
[N.p. ca. 1935]. 16pp. Tall 16mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light oxidization around staples. Light wear and soiling to wraps. Light tanning. A scarce and ephemeral little handbook, published as a guide for the enrollees into Company 755 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, which worked on the McKenzie Bridge over..... More
[Colorado Springs?]: 1897-1899. Twelve photographs mounted on cards. Images approximately 3.75 x 4.75 inches; cards 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Minor wear to cards. Images clean with good contrast. A series of twelve photographs by an unidentified photographer depicting the area in and around Cripple Creek. The cards are almost all..... More
Winnipeg: 1905. 112pp. 12mo. Original green cloth, cover stamped in black. Light wear, corners rubbed. Minor soiling and wear internally. A Lutheran hymnal printed in Icelandic for the immigrant community in and around Manitoba, the title of this work translates as, "Hymns and Other Songs of the Community and Sunday..... More
Chicago: Geographical Publishing Co., [1915]. Folding map, 20.75 x 27.75 inches. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Several short separations along fold lines. Handsome map of Iowa, with each county printed in color, delineating all the automobile roads in green. Also titled "Premier Series Map of..... More
Topeka: Crane & Company, 1907. 46pp. 12mo. Original green cloth, front cover stamped in black. Light soiling and wear, some fraying to top edge. Charming book of medicinal remedies written by a physician in Enid, Oklahoma. Among the "specific cures" listed are those for burns and scalds, boils, cystitis, cancers..... More
Chicago: 1926. Six octavo leaves, typed on recto only. Old folds, some light wear and soiling. Three leaves signed, some dated, other notations. Six manuscript pieces from early in the career of Chicago poet and author Francesca Falk Miller (1888-1969), comprised of five poems and one letter bearing a verse..... More
![Item #1021 A Message from Central South Dakota: Opportunity Land [cover title]. South Dakota](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB1021_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1573312374)
Pierre: [1911]. [18]pp. Original illustrated self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear and a few unrelated pencil annotation to wrappers. Small chip at foot of front wrapper. Light dust soiling and tanning. Rare promotional pamphlet for Pierre, South Dakota, and the surrounding region. This booklet contains numerous photographic reproductions that depict the architecture..... More
Chattanooga: Times Print, 1898. [29]pp. Narrow 12mo. Original red cloth, cover gilt. Spine heavily chipped, corners worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown, contemporary notations to several leaves. Regimental roster for the Second Nebraska Volunteers, mustered into service for the Spanish American War at Lincoln, in May 1898. The regiment..... More
Tokyo: Salesian Orphanage, 1949. 84pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Second edition. Written by a Catholic priest, this work reports on the efforts of the Church and others to assist with the orphans and other wandering persons, particularly children, displaced in the wake of World War..... More