[Havana: Cuba-American Jockey Club Company, 1916]. Orange-yellow printed silk. 16 1/4 x 9 in. Portraits of starters, stewards and judges. List of officers of the company. List of horses in five races. Very good. No listing found in OCLC. Wikipedia refers to it as the Havana-American Jockey Club Company perhaps... More
[Randolph, NE ? np, 1888]. 22 1/2 x 10 3/8 in. 72 lines of text, plat map illus. Approximately 750 words. Ragged on right side leaving small piece of border missing, two taped tears of no than 1 1/2 in.. It writes of railroad lines passing and those that will... More
[Chicago, IL ? np, 1890]. Darkened paper. 12 x 4 1/2 in. approximately 40 lines of text, 200 words, illustrated 2 portraits. "Known to his family as Belmont and to the public as Chief Rolling Thunder, Louis Belmont Newell was born around 1858 to Thomas Newell and Marie Parsons of... More
Philadelphia, [PA]: Quaker City Publishing House, 725 Sansom Street, ca.1878. Prospectus broadside. 24 by 18 3/4 in. Approximately 50 lines of text of 500 words. Three illustrations across top Fight with natives, Henry Stanley, Elephants, toward each bottom corner Native attack, Navigating the rapids. At the bottom promotional pumping of... More
Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839. First edition. 8vo. viii, 412pp., errata slip. Original black cloth, minor edgewear. Some pages uncut, a lovely copy. Tucker was the consumate political economist, he cultivated the science because it could "excert a great influence on the public prosperity, in teaching governments... More
[Birmingham, Ala: the author, Dec. 5, 1906]. Rose colored stiff wrappers, stapled. 7 1/2 by 6 1/4 in. 16pp., 2 photo illustrations. Gilt lettering and border on front wrapper. Signed by the author, 'Bettie Lou Clarke' [Pyrnelle] on the dedication page. The author notes that she wishes all proceeds from... More
[Jacksonville, FL]: [1949?]. Broadside, 18 x 12 in. Approximately 800 words. Text enclosed in a patterned border. Old fold lines, a closed tear of two along the fold lines. Overall a nice image. Morgan F. Jones was a lawyer in Jacksonville according to Cutler's "History of Florida," his biography states... More
[Colgate, Okla. np, ca. 1910s]. Small broadside, 10 1/2 by 5 5/16 in. Green paper some shallow chipping to edges. No OCLC. Rough English translation: ITALIANS !! NOTICE to all compatriots that I, Photographer, Painter, I will hold back for some time in _____ and I'll be at their disposal... More
[Greenwood, AR ? np, ca. 1893]. Small broadside, 6 x 8 1/2 in. Old fold lines, short split along one fold. R. W. McFarlane became manager of the Greenwood Coal Mine after a bankruptcy, which some previous stockholders felt might have been an inside deal, as he held a mortgage... More
New York City: Julius Schmid, Inc. 423 West 55th Street, (ca. 1940-50s?). Broadside, 11 x 8 1/2 in. Julius Schmid came to this country as an impoverished German-Jewish immigrant. He got a job in a sausage factory and began making condoms from the leftover intestine membranes which had been done... More
Batesville, AR: The White River Chamber of Commerce, 1924. White printed wrappers. 10 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. 16 pp. Illus. Covers with speckling. "The White River Chamber of Commerce Devoted to Upbuilding, Development and Advancement of Its Home Field- The White River Country." No OCLC. More
Cincinnati: Published for the editors by Robinson & Jones, 109 Main Street. Guilford & Russell, Printers, Third Street, 1844. Printed brown wrappers darkened, with chipping along edges. 9 3/4 x 6 5/8 in. 64 pp. "Lucius A. Hine, a young lawyer who had been endoctrinated with the new social ideas... More
New York: NAACP, 69 Fifth Avenue, 1940. Buff printed wrappers. 6 x 3 1/2 in. 21 pp. Stapled in on pages 13 & 14 are amendments made in 1943. In 1911 Albert Pillsbury drafted the first constitution, the typescript is at the Library of Congress. We find a single printed... More
Philadelphia: Wm F. Murphy's Sons, Printers & Stationers, 509 Chestnut St., Philada. August 22, 1874. Single sheet, folded to 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in., 3 pp. of text. Albumen photo of Charlie laid down at the top of the first page. One paper tear repaired no lettering affected. This... More
Des Moines, Iowa: John Teesdale, State Printer, 1860. Original printed green wrappers. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. First edition. 15 pp. Barclay Coppoc [spelled this way in the text] and his brother particpated in the raid on Harper Ferry with John Brown. Coppoc's brother was hanged in Virginia, he... More
Mobile: Published by F. H. Brooks, Wholesale Bookseller, 1845. Disbound pamphlet. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. 27pp. Some staining to upper eighth of title page apparently attempt to remove a signature or library markings. Reinforced with Japanese paper on spine and over stained area. Not uncommon institutionally... More
[Nashville, TN: W.R. Stewart, 1943]. Printed beige wrappers stapled. First edition. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in., 42 pp. Portrait photo of the author. Evangelist W. Roy Stewart. Soiled, with some separation along spine, previous owner's signature at head of title page. A widow and her brother-in-law hire a killer... More
New York: A. Rumpf, Publisher 175 Broadway. Agent for John Bachmann's Publications, 1861. Color lithograph, drawn from nature, 34 x 50 cm. image on a 45 x 60 cm. sheet. The image shows an aerial view of the terrain looking south from Baltimore down the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, with... More
School notebook (front cover lacking), 8vo. utilizing 22pp. of the lined paper, to record through newspaper stories and candid and school photos, the winning season for the Subiaco Academy football team. Laid down in the notebook are numerous news articles, as well as 14 photos of the team, most 2... More
8vo. 9pp. total, approx. 2500 words. All folded for mailing, addressed on an outer integral leaf, with "Tallahassee, Fla." postmarks. Splitting along some folds, affecting a few words, but all legible. Hixon writes to Miss. Ellin J. Harris of Waterford, Virginia and asks to be remembered to all their mutual... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1861. Second edition (reprint of the first edition, issued anonymously, the previous year). 8vo. 47 pp. Kennedy (1795-1870), novelist, author of Swallow Barn and other works of Southern setting, and statesman, once Secretary of the Navy, "strove, by writing and speaking, to prevent secession. When this proved... More
NP: np, 1864. Broadside, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 in., printed in two columns. Some toning and scattered foxing and uneven edges with shallow chipping, not affecting text. The platforms of the Union (Democratic) Party and the Republicans for what would become Lincoln's re-election. Some of the resolutions in his... More
Philadelphia: April 19th, 1861. Printed letter, single sheet, 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 in., signed in type by Charles S. Smith, Chairman of the Meeting. The text: "Resolved, That in view of the impending danger to our homes and liberties, it is indispensable that a body of not less than ten... More
[Princeton, NJ?]: 1907 (?). 4to (28 cm.). 10 pages [typed rectos only], approximately 2850 words, each leaf mounted along the left edge to a larger, heavier sheet, each page double-spaced, with 29 separate ink corrections, deletions, and additions by Cleveland in his characteristic hand (44 words added, 19 deleted, 20... More
1902. Two folio sheets, 35 x 22 cm., containing the signatures of many of the men deported to Guam in January and February 1901, by orders of the U.S. Army Headquarters Division of the Philippines in Manila. All the prisoners signed boldly, 35 on the first page, 5 on the... More
