Search Results: Titles starting with I from McBride Rare Books

Middletown, Ct, 1955. Very good.. 32pp. Spiral bound small folio. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photo reproductions. Minor wear. A remembrance book produced by a group of conscientious objectors (COs) who worked at the Connecticut State Hospital mental hospital instead of joining the armed forces. In the introduction, they wrote: "Though it is true we have not gone out of the battle fronts of war, we sincerely desire that we may have served our God and our nation well by enlisting in the battle against disease and suffering, in the name of Christ." Assistant Superintendent H.S. Whiting, M.D. commented in the booklet that the COs played an important role: "One of the most important, and perhaps least understood, elements in the treatment of mental patients is the role of interpersonal relations in this environment...The group for which this is written has, in my judgement, filled this role unusually well." The booklet includes biographies and photographs of the COs who served as… Read More

[N.p., 1890. Very good.. 16pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor chipping and wear to wraps. Scarce, late 19th-century promotional for five counties in Idaho. The counties represented include Shoshone and Kootenai, which occupy the northernmost Idaho Panhandle; and Blaine, Bannock, and Bear Lake, which range across the center and southwest portions of the state. Each county receives its own section that describes their respective natural resources and business opportunities, concentrated principally around mining, agriculture, and stock raising. Other details include descriptions of major towns, transportation, and other amenities. OCLC locates two copies, at Yale and Utah State.

Aberdeen: Daily News Print, 1894. Very good.. [8]pp. on a folded sheet of pink paper. Minor wear, some light soiling to rear panel. Promotional brochure for South Dakota and the area around Aberdeen, the state's third most populous city. The "Big Five" Counties comprise Brown, Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, and Walworth, sitting along the northeast part of the state, along the border with North Dakota. The work briefly touts the crop yields and fabulous soil quality, as well as stating that "Those seeking homes in this district will not be subject to pioneering," that hard work having already been accomplished in the district. The final panel is a map of the Upper Midwest showing the Chicago & Northwestern Railway lines, all of which lead to Aberdeen. We locate a single copy in OCLC, at Yale.

New Haven: October 31, 1927. Very good.. Photographically-iIlustrated broadside, 16 x 19 inches. Moderate edge wear, a few short, closed edge tears. An advertising broadside for the Illustrated Current News of New Haven, Connecticut, featuring the infamous Muse Brothers of Roanoke, Virginia. In the early-20th century, George and Willie Muse disappeared from the farm in Truevine, Virginia where they lived with their mother, Harriet. The two young men assisted their mother as best they could with her sharecropping duties, though their albinism and nystagmus (a weakening of vision that often accompanies albinism) prevented them from spending much time in the Virginia sun. In 1914, a circus promoter named James Herman "Candy" Shelton was in the Roanoke area and spotted the Muse brothers. He and Harriet struck an agreement that they boys would appear in his circus for a period of a few months and then be returned to their farm. It would be the last time Harriet would see her children for over a decade.… Read More

Philadelphia: Published by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1836. Good.. 24pp. Disbound. Ex-Vermont State Library, with embossed blindstamp and remnants of shelf label on title page and small numbered ink stamp on first page of text. Remnants of original wrappers along outer gutters, mostly minor foxing throughout. A rare Philadelphia edition of an early abolitionist tract by Elizabeth Heyrick, an English Quaker. The work was first published in Great Britain in 1824 and reprinted several times in both England and the United States. The present work is just the second edition published in Philadelphia and the only edition sponsored by the Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, which formed in 1833. The Philadelphia Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society was created in the same year as the American Anti-Slavery Society by a group of Pennsylvania women, both White and Black, including Lucretia Mott. The organization is credited with being among the first and only… Read More

St. Louis: Jno. McKittrick & Co, 1873. About very good.. Broadside, 21 x 7 inches. Upper right corner slightly chipped. Center right edge a bit nibbled. Fading contemporary ink stamp at foot. Small patch of dampstaining at lower left; light tanning. Illustrated broadside advertisement for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway. The railroad completed its line from St. Louis to Little Rock in 1873. The present broadside advertises fares between the two cities and intermediate points, as well to additional cities north and east via connection in Little Rock. The lower portion of the broadside promotes its federal land grants in Missouri and Arkansas. OCLC locates five copies, at Yale, SMU, Michigan, UT Arlington, and Truman State.

San Francisco: Sterett Show Printing Co, 1897. Very good plus.. Broadside, approximately 17.5 x 6 inches. Printed on orange paper. Two short closed tears. Scarce broadside advertisement for the magic and puppet theater of Bowman the Wizard, a performer who toured California at the turn of the 20th century. The poster promotes not only Bowman's "New Marvelous Entertainment of Magic, Mirth, & Mystery," but also his "Cabinet of Wonders," which included such displays as "Enchanted Pyramids" and "Mysterious Production of Flowers," and several other acts of ventriloquy and mind reading. We locate copies at four institutions -- Yale, Smith College, Library of Congress, and the Autry Museum.

[Indianapolis, 1938. Good.. [1],132,iii,[1]pp. plus two leaves of plates. Two volumes in one, paginated continuously. Folio. Original blue card covers printed in gilt, linen spine; stapled. Binding detached from text block. Lightly tanned, minor wear and soiling. Mimeographed work enumerating Indiana women who served in World War I. Entries are alphabetical, listing each woman's name, birth date, enlistment date, and service record. The two leaves of plates at the end (printed on both sides) contain portraits of 128 servicewomen, many of whom were nurses. Though there are twenty copies listed in OCLC, all but two are in Indiana libraries (Temple Public Library in Texas and the Library of Congress).

Richmond, Va: Presses of the Virginia Press, 1908. Very good plus.. 400pp., including scores of photographic plates and illustrations within the text. Publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. Minor wear and rubbing to boards. A profusely-illustrated historical treatment of African American industrial history intended as a textbook for teaching Black youth. The authors, Giles B. Jackson and D. Webster Davis (who are featured in the photographic frontispiece), write in their Preface that "Every rave has its history written by its own members. This, to our mind, is a special reason why the Negro should have a history of himself, written by members of his own race, and that history should be taught in the schools of the youth of the race." They argue that the history of African Americans "can be best gleaned from his industrial progress...showing the strides made by the race along industrial lines." The work is comprised of chapters on the early history of African Americans, the introduction and… Read More

Medellin: Imprenta de Manuel Antonio Balcazar, 1838. About very good.. 24pp. Stitched as issued. Dust soiling and toning. The author of this scarce pamphlet, Francisco Obregon, was the governor of the Colombian province of Antioquia. Here he attempts to justify and to explain the "intervencion i procedimientos de los funcionarios del order ejecutivo en las ultimas elecciones, pasa a verificarlo en los terminos mas claros i precisos que le sea posible." Unusual, early example of printing from Medellín; not in OCLC.

Los Angeles: Wood's" Print, 1912. Very good.. [8]pp. Narrow quarto. Original printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Scarce promotional for an early 20th-century Arizona club community, now fully subsumed by Phoenix. The town and resort were several miles northeast of central Phoenix, under Camelback Mountain. Much of the text centers on the Ingleside Club, where "Social life at Ingleside centers." The Club was the valley's first resort, and operated in the winter months until the early 1940s. Photographic reproductions depict the club grounds, bungalows, orange groves, dairy herds, and, naturally, golf. OCLC locates just four copies -- Pima County Public Library, University of Arizona, SMU, and Yale.

San Francisco: Southern Pacific Company, 1907. Near fine.. 24pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Booklet promoting the Southern Pacific Railway and highlights along its route. With a map and numerous images of the handsome Southern California scenery.

Mexico City, 1898. Good.. 117pp., plus eight plates. Original grey cloth, front board printed in black. Light wear to edges and spine ends; cloth rubbed and somewhat soiled. Front free end paper separating. A few contemporary annotations and geometric doodles scattered throughout, heaviest on front endpapers. Two contemporary ink stamps and ownership inscriptions on internal leaves. Even toning, scattered foxing. Late 19th-century manual of duties and responsibilities for an infantryman in the Mexican army, encompassing a variety of settings and situations in the field. These include numerous services to perform while on the march, in camp, on reconnaissance, and during engagements. OCLC locates two copies in U.S. institutions, at UCLA and Rice.

Brownville, Ne, 1870. Very good.. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Minor wear and dust soiling. Faint tanning and foxing. A brief instructional pamphlet on the transplant and cultivation of fruit trees from Furnas Nurseries of Brownville, Nebraska. Robert W. Furnas was one of the early territorial pioneers who came to Nebraska from Ohio in April 1856. He began to publish the Brownville Nebraska Advertiser shortly after emigrating, and for a time was the only printer in the territory. He edited and published the newspaper until 1867, and served as Governor of Nebraska from 1873 to 1875, but his principal business interest was the tree nursery that he operated with his family in Brownville. He was a very significant figure in the early history of the state, also commanding Nebraska cavalry and Indian troops during the Civil War, acting as Indian Agent for the Omaha after the war, and helping to establish the state Board of Agriculture and the State Fair. "As our reputation as Nurserymen depends upon the success… Read More

[Columbia, S.C., 1955. Near fine.. 12pp. Original gray wrappers printed in black, stapled. Light wear overall. The second interim report from the South Carolina School Committee, comprised of five Senators, five Representatives, and five laymen, sent to the governor and the General Assembly, apprising them of "our findings and recommendations pending final action of the United States Supreme Court and the development of the situation its decrees will create in the field of public education." The committee is reacting, of course, to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which effectively called for the integration of public schools in the United States. The committee's findings are both alarming and unsurprising. In one passage, they state they have "no reason to change its views that the concensus [sic] of public opinion in this State favors better educational opportunity for all children - in separate schools." Their first recommendation reads as follows: "Your… Read More

Mexico: Imprenta de Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui, 1815. Very good.. [xii],40,[3]pp. Small quarto. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine and edges of boards gilt tooled; contemporary marbled endpapers. Minor wear and rubbing to spine and boards; scattered foxing and occasional light soiling internally. Scarce concatenation of epic, allegorical, political, and religious poetry concerning the ongoing Mexican war for independence. The author, Francisco María Colombini, was an Italian nobleman serving as a captain in the Spanish army and a late Enlightenment figure, whose many academic and cultural accomplishments are prominently listed on the title page. His most famous work, published in 1801, was another epic poem titled Querétaro Triunfante, which concerned a miraculous cure that he experiences through his devotion to Nuestra Señora de Pueblito. The verse present here is addressed to "our unfortunate brothers," the rebels in New Spain, and comprises a lengthy chastisement of their foolish… Read More

Avelar, Paty do Alferes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1882. Very good.. [8]pp. in Portuguese. Folio. Bound with a single brad in left margin. Old folds, very minor toning. Rare Brazilian slavery document listing workers at one of the major coffee plantations in the area of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  Located in Avelar, Municipality of Paty do Alferes, Fazenda Boa Esperança was originally part of the sesmaria of Fazenda Pau Grande. As the owners continued to live in Pau Grande, in this area, a structure was established for the culture of coffee, consisting of yards, mills, slave quarters, kitchen, slave infirmary, where today the house is located, with some adaptations and additions. Around 1850, a headquarters was built and, around 1907, it was demolished and with the demolition material the first houses of Vila de Avelar were built. The document lists both men and women by first name only, with short descriptive text identifying some as married or as sons or daughters of others in the list. It also… Read More

Irvington, Ca: May, 1941. Very good.. [6],150pp. Original wooden boards decoratively illustrated and lettered in green, gray, and black paint on the front board, reading, "Recipes Irvington P.T.A." and bound by three separate rings. Text uniformly toned, with several leaves detached but present, a few with minor chipping. An exceedingly rare DIY cookbook produced by the Irvington Parent-Teachers Association just before the outbreak of World War II. The recipes were compiled by Irma T. Bond, "not for culinary instruction, as is the case for most cook books - but for the purpose of permitting members to exchange their favorite recipes." The contents page lists the recipes in roughly alphabetical order, beginning with Appetizers, Bread, Crepe Suzette, and Cakes, and ending with Salads, Soups, Vegetables, and then "How to Cook a Husband," "Household Hints," and "Quantity Cooking." Each of the recipes, generally presented two per page, includes the name of its contributor. OCLC records just a single copy… Read More

[N.p., 1927. Very good.. 9pp. Gathered signatures, stapled. Minor rusting to staples, light soiling to margins of outer leaves. A rare pamphlet printing an interesting essay on the nature of race prejudice by one of the foremost African American minds of the early-20th century. Kelly Miller, a noted African American scholar, mathematician, and teacher, was a professor at Howard University and a well-regarded essayist on racial topics. Four of his books were collections of these types of essays, including Race Justice (1908), Out of the House of Bondage (1914), An Appeal to Conscience (1918), and The Everlasting Stain (1924). The present essay does not appear in any of these works, and by necessity must have been printed sometime during or after the latter two works, as it refers in the last paragraph to the number of French women who married "negroes" during the "World War." It is most likely an offprint of an article by Miller entitled, "Race prejudice, innate or acquired?" published in the… Read More

[N.p., but likely Austin or Dallas, 1926. Good.. 64pp. Original light blue wrappers printed in black and red, stapled. Noticeable staining and soiling to wrappers. Faint stain to first few leaves, small burn to outer margin of one leaf costing just a few letters, light even toning, soft vertical crease throughout. A rare compilation of lurid accounts reporting on the mistreatment of both male and female inmates housed in Texas prisons in the early 20th century. The accounts include "Ten Years in Hell" - William Mosser's firsthand story of life inside the state prison at Huntsville; "Tortures in the Pen" by an author identified only as "A Van Zandt County Boy;" "Experiences of a Hunt County Boy - Facts About a Year Spent in a Texas Penitentiary" by an unnamed author; "Dallas Woman Tells of Conditions of San Quentin in Comparison to Those on Texas Prison Farms; and others. No publication information is provided within the work, but there are several excerpts of stories from the Austin Bureau of the… Read More