This list features twenty-five newly-catalogued items on a wide variety of subjects. Highlights include a vernacular photo album of an African-American family in Texas; a rare Colombian grammar; a rare run of a Cuban newspaper; a large archive of a Mexican-American soldier in the Korean War; a run of scripts from a woman's radio show about the U.S. Air Force; several other pieces of African Americana, Latin Americana, and more. Enjoy!
Download PDF of List #37 - Recently Catalogued![Item #3461 A Problem and a Solution [cover title]. African Americana, Tennessee](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3461_01.JPG?v=1657312084)
[Nashville: Hillcrest School Farm, ca. 1920s]. 16pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Most of spine split but holding by one staple, minor chipping and soiling to covers, ink stamp reading "File Copy Do not remove" on front cover. Internally clean. A seemingly unrecorded promotional pamphlet for the Hillcrest School Farm..... More
![Item #3239 Sunday June 18, in the Year of Our Lord, 1961. Freedom Rally [cover title]. Civil...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3239_01.JPG?v=1652872383)
Los Angeles: Western Christian Leadership Conference, 1961. [16]pp. Quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and rubbing, soft vertical crease throughout. A few passages underlined within text. A rare original program for the June 18, 1961 Freedom Rally led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., which took place in..... More
Bogota: 1826. 208pp. Lacking a significant number of leaves (pp.57-72, 75-78, 91-94, 197-200, 203-208). Contemporary calf. Moderate wear and soiling to binding, some foxing and soiling to text. Rare Spanish grammar for use in the schools of southwestern Colombia. This dense little volume seeks to provide proper grammar and syntax..... More
![Item #3036 Diario del Gobierno Constitucional de la Habana [caption title]. Cuba](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3036.JPG?v=1657293545)
Havana: 1821-1822. Twenty-five issues, each [4]pp., on single folded folio sheets. One issue separated along spine fold, various degrees of toning throughout, occasional foxing, a handful of ink marginal notations or scribblings, minor dampstaining to bottom margins of some issues. A substantial collection of colonial Cuban newspapers published between March..... More
Mexico City: A. Carranza y Cia. 1907. xviii,521,[1]pp. Contemporary pebbled cloth, morocco corners. Corners and spine ends worn; spine sunned; some staining and rubbing to boards. Large, contemporary binder's ticket on front pastedown. Light toning; light dampstaining at fore-edge of initial leaves. Scarce Mexican edition of Willis Alonzo Dewey's Practical..... More
[Numerous locations, including San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Havana: ca. 1920s to 1940s]. Approximately forty individual pieces of printed ephemera, 8.5 x 11 inches or smaller, plus a handful of photographs. Varying levels of wear, tear, and staining. An eclectic collection of ephemera related to the search for love, companionship, and..... More
[Guatemala]: Imprenta de la N.A. de Estudios, 1839. Small broadsheet, approximately 12 x 8 inches. Unevenly trimmed, small piece of upper right corner torn away. Vertical tideline through center of sheet. Beginning in 1838, the Federal Republic of Central America was torn apart by civil wars pitting Liberal against Conservative..... More
[Chiba, Japan: 1957]. Title leaf, plus [18] leaves, illustrated with forty-three large photographs, between 4 x 6 and 8 x 10 inches, including a few small panoramic images, most with typed captions mounted beneath the pictures. Oblong folio. Contemporary light brown leather. Minor scuffing and edge wear. A unique photograph..... More
![Item #2821 The Minidoka Irrigator, Vol. III, No. 31 [caption title]. Japanese Internment, Newspapers](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2821_01.JPG?v=1657370524)
Hunt, Id. 1943. 10pp. Small newpspaper folio. Separated at gutter fold, some shorter separations along horizontal fold. Some chipping at edges, not affecting text. Paper rather browned and brittle. A fascinating issue of the Minidoka Irrigator, the prisoner-produced newspaper of the Hunt, Idaho, concentration camp that held Japanese-Americans from Washington..... More
Vera Cruz: March 29, 1847. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, minor soiling and wear. A triumphant letter filled with patriotic fervor, describing the Battle of Veracruz, written by an American soldier to folks back home in Indiana. Writing on March 29th, the day the siege ended, Corporal..... More
![Item #3462 Baptist Schools in Mexico [cover title]. Mexico, Education](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3462.JPG?v=1657312086)
[New York: Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1932]. 12pp., on a single folded quarto sheet of green paper. Illustrated. Minor wear. A very rare promotional pamphlet issued by the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, touting their missionary work amongst the school-age children in Mexico. The author, Dorothy Detweiler..... More
Mexico City: Impresa en la Casa de Correccion de Jovenes, 1846. 90,[22]pp. Later marbled wrappers, edges sprinkled blue. A few small patches of staining to title page; otherwise, light, even tanning. An important and scarce book of regulations for the officials and workers in the Mexican tobacco industry just prior..... More
Helena: 1897. 506,[2]pp. Thick octavo. Original cloth, spine gilt, board's printed. Spine ends a bit chipped, corners worn, hinges cracked and a bit loose. A couple of tape repairs, light toning and dust soiling. The eighth city directory for Helena, Montana, published by the prolific firm of R.L. Polk &..... More
![Item #3459 [Portrait of a Young Native American Man, Possibly Nez Perce]. Native American...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3459.JPG?v=1657370463)
Lewiston, Id. E.G. Cummings, [ca. 1900]. Mounted photograph, approximately 3.75 x 3 inches, on a card 6 x 4.25 inches. A striking vignette portrait of an American Indian man, likely Nez Perce, in western dress, taken by turn-of-the-century Idaho photographer Everett G. Cummings. Cummings operated a studio with his brother..... More
Washington DC: A. & G. Way, 1809. 19,[1]pp. Disbound. Soiling to top margin of first several leaves, minor foxing and toning, small inked number on title page. A scarce early entry in the landmark Federal-era Louisiana legal battle known later as the New Orleans "batture case." Jean Gravier, a major..... More
[Elk City, Ok., and various locations in California: ca. 1907-1919]. [46] leaves, illustrated with 103 photographs, mostly black and white or sepia-toned, but also including twelve cyanotypes and some photo postcards, almost all mounted but with a few detached or loose, measuring between 1.25 x 1.25 and 7 x 5..... More
Ft. Worth: Standard Blue Print Map Company, [ca. 1928]. Blueline map, 24.75 x 20.75 inches. Old folds, minor toning, extensive manuscript notations and hand coloring. An unrecorded Texas oil map showing the richness of a plot of the oil field in Upton County, Texas that was ostensibly assigned as the..... 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
London: 1823. iv,44,46pp., plus two engraved plates. 20th-century vellum boards, printed front cover. Vellum taut, somewhat bowing boards and stiffening hinges. Light tanning and foxing internally. This scarce military manual was issued shortly after Mexico won its independence in 1821, but still faced efforts by Spain to recapture its lost..... More