Search Results: Titles starting with P from McBride Rare Books

St. Louis, 1892. About very good.. 74pp. Oblong octavo. Original illustrated wrappers, stapled. Light wear and chipping to spine, rear cover with closed tear, minor soiling. Minor scattered foxing and offsetting. Handsome illustrated trade catalogue for the firm of P.C. Murphy, manufacturers of fine trunks and traveling bags. The work is filled with a wide variety of trunks and suitcases, illustrating each with prices listed for available sizes. Choose from barrel top or flat top, canvas or leather or imitation, etc. Forematter indicates this to be the company's twenty-first annual catalogue, and terms for purchase are listed inside the front cover. An ephemeral piece, we find single copies of three other years in OCLC, but none of the present edition.

[New York: E. Gardner, 1915. Good.. Sepia-toned silver gelatin photograph, 11 x 14 inches, mounted on card. Edge wear to mount, top corner of photograph and mount chipped, short closed tear to lower right edge, moderate dust-soiling and surface wear to image. A large-format class photograph featuring the "Man Class" at PS 89 in Harlem in June 1915. The well-dressed and diverse class of young men pose with three of their teachers and/or administrators. The students appear to hail from a mixture of white, African American, and Italian American backgrounds. A few of the students hold pennants, noting the "PS 89 Patrol" and a banner celebrating the "Inter Class Basketball Championship of 1914-15." The photo credit at bottom left indicates the photograph was produced by the Gardner Studio at 68 West 116th Street in Harlem. Racially-diverse school photographs from this period are rather scarce.

Glendora, Ca: Pacifica Library Associates, 1942. Very good.. [2],137,[4] leaves. Folio. Reproduced typescript, with "Explanatory Note" taped to inside front cover. Original brad-bound, printed card wrappers. Light wear. Without the five leaves of "Authors cited" at the end, as noted in the OCLC record, but perhaps not present in all copies. A detailed history and study of the history of "the Peace Movement in its broadest sense" produced by the Pacifica Library Associates at the outset of World War II. The explanatory note states that the study is "addressed primarily to the present c.o.'s as a suggestion that opportunities for an extension of Peace education may grow rapidly during immediate years to come." Chapters focus on the "Origins and Effects of World War I," "General Opposition to War," "Non-violence -- Theory and Practice," "Christian Views," "Socialists," "Statecraft," and "Military Attitudes," as well as general chapters on history, educators, and science involved in conscientious… Read More

Corpus Christi, 1949. Very good.. Two contemporary "Fotofolio" flip-style photograph albums, illustrated with 385 black-and-white photographs, all measuring about 4 x 5 inches, all hinged along the top edge and mostly arranged sequentially. Most of the images are annotated with the date in ink or with a printed date in the margin, and sometimes carry a letter-number code printed in the margin, as well. Some chipping to album spines, some splits along the joints, moderate rubbing and edge wear. A few photos creased, three leaves in second album detached. A large collection of photographs documenting a large-scale construction project along the Texas Gulf Coast in the mid-20th century by one of the state's most notable companies. The photographs date from October 11, 1948 to July 29, 1949, and picture the construction of the Tex-Mex Cement Company Plant in Corpus Christi. The photos were likely made for a architect, contractor, or construction supervisor building the plant. The Tex-Mex Cement Company… Read More

Phoenix, 1951. About very good.. [28]pp. each. Illustrated with photographs. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Moderate edge wear, creasing, and some soiling. Light toning to text, a few scattered ink signatures, final gathering in later pamphlet detached but present. A pair of seemingly-unrecorded programs for the annual conferences of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity from 1948 and 1951. Each program contains the schedule of business and social events for the conference, lists of officers, as well as greetings, well wishes, advertisements, and more from the larger Phoenix community. Some of the advertisers include African-American-owned businesses such as Ragsdale Mortuary, Bohannon Cactus Drug ("Only Negro Pharmacy in Arizona"), and the Arizona Sun newspaper, "Published in the interest of the Social, Political and Economic Welfare of 75,000 Negroes of Arizona." The programs are also illustrated with numerous portrait photographs of the officers and attendees of the conference, and notable… Read More

Detroit, Mi, 1955. Very good.. Panoramic photographs, 10 x 18.5 inches and 12 x 19.75 inches. Moderate creasing, surface and edge wear. A pair of rare small-format panoramic photographs, at least one of which was produced by a Japanese American photographer, featuring diners at two different Detroit conventions of the Japanese American Citizens League in the mid-20th century. The first photograph pictures hundreds of Japanese American men and women dining at the Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit during the September 1-2, 1951 convention of the JACL. According to the printed title at bottom, this was the organization's "2nd biennial Midwest District Convention." This photo was produced by a photographer named Kawamoto, with his name scratched into the negative at bottom right. The second features the attendees of the "Testimonial Dinner" of the Detroit chapter of the JACL at the International Institute on May 15, 1955. Material from eastern JACL chapters is especially difficult to find in the present market.

[West Plains, Mo: West Plains Journal, 1915. Very good.. Printed broadsheet, 10 x 5.5 inches, plus separate "Map of Howell County, Mo.," 9.75 x 7.25 inches. Even tanning and old folds to broadsheet; minor wear to map, old folds, a few manuscript additions to the area of the map, two contemporary marginal ink stamps. A pair of unrecorded Missouri real estate promotional items from the early 20th century. The first is a broadsheet entitled, Howell County Had a Fine Year in Nineteen Fifteen. The two pages of text tout the productive year of the agricultural scene in the county, which was awarded the blue ribbon two years in a row at the Missouri State Fair. They also detail the amount of available land for cultivation and grazing, as well as the production of livestock and other products for several towns in Howell County, including West Plains, Mountain View, Willow Springs, Brandsville, Hutton Valley, Olden, Burnham, and Pomona. The broadsheet was issued by a land speculator in the area named C.P.… Read More

[Various locations, 1930. Very good.. Two volumes, totaling [43] leaves with sixty vernacular photographs, most in mounting corners, many with manuscript captions, plus dozens of commercial souvenir photographs, envelopes, pictorial postcards, and other ephemeral items. Matching black textured cloth photograph albums, string tied, each stamped on front cover, "Photographs Souvenir of Hollywood, Calif." Minor wear. A pair of vernacular photograph albums / scrapbooks in which two women document their automobile and train trip west to California through the American Southwest. The two women are identified as Adeline and Kay, and were possibly lovers, due to the romantic nature of some of the captions. Photographs alternate between the two women, and also include photos of both of them together. Most are captioned in white pencil, with what appear to be song lyrics such as "Just You - Just Me," "Precious little thing called - Love!," "My Sweeter Than Sweet," "Lovin' you till the sands of the desert grow… Read More

[St. Louis, 1955. Very good.. 52; 40pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and light soiling to each. Internally, both clean. A pair of programs for consecutive years documenting the famous Pine Street YMCA's "Y Circus" in St. Louis. The Y Circus was a fundraising event hosted by the Pine Street branch of the YMCA in an attempt to raise money for a children's camp for Black youth in Bourbon, Missouri. Normally the Y Circus involved performances of gymnastics, music, and dance by the youth members of the Pine Street YMCA. Eventually, prominent artists from the African-American community performed at the Y Circus in order to raise the profile of the event. The present programs are wonderful examples of this, covering the Y Circus for 1954 and 1955. The 20th Annual program features headliner Pearl Bailey; the following year, Nat "King" Cole was the featured performer, with the latter featured on the cover of the 21st annual program. The day's program for each year's celebration is… Read More

Cincinnati, 1842. Very good.. Two letterpress broadsides, 16 x 7.25 inches and 17 x 6.25 inches, respectively. Old folds, noticeable foxing, moderate edge wear, two-inch vertical closed tear to bottom edge of one broadside. A handsome pair of patriotic broadsides printed in Cincinnati for two separate celebrations of July 4th by the city's Ninth Street Baptist Church and Sabbath School. The first broadside was printed for the Independence Day celebration in 1842, and contains an imprint line reading, "Printed by S.W. Johns, Cincinnati." The second broadside contains neither a date or an imprint. Both of the broadsides feature a schedule of events celebrating the Fourth of July, with a couple of the same religious officials delivering prayers, songs, addresses, and readings, most notably of the Declaration of Independence on both pieces. For example, each broadside includes an address by Robert Lynd; also, John M'Lean Staughton delivers a poem in one case and a "Temperance Address" on the other. In… Read More

Nashville, 1950. Very good.. Two yearbooks: 244; 208pp. The first bound in blue textured cloth, the second in maroon textured cloth, each front cover stamped in gilt with a mounted photograph. Some scuffing to edges. Light thumb-soiling to texts, previous owner's inscription in each volume. A pair of yearbooks once belonging to Dr. James L. Hutchinson of Shreveport, Louisiana while a medical student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville in the mid-20th century. The yearbooks - the Meharrian for 1949 and 1950 - cover Hutchinson's last two years at the school, and are chock full of photographs and information on the administration, faculty, students, student organizations, and campus life at the pioneering college. The last sections in each yearbook are comprised of advertisements from local vendors, mostly medical suppliers. Meharry Medical College opened in 1876 as the first institution in the South designed to train African American doctors. At the time Hutchinson attended the school, Meharry… Read More

[N.p., likely Colorado, 1950. Good plus.. Two panoramic photographs, each measuring approximately 6.25 x 15.25 inches. Minor surface staining to one photograph, light soiling and edge wear. A pair of small panoramic photographs capturing a large group of women during the day and then at night on a dude ranch in the American West. The daytime photograph pictures about twenty-five women on horseback in a single line with a large mountain range in the background; the nighttime photo shows about thirty-five women ranged around a small campfire, with several tents in the background. A handful of men accompany the women, perhaps the ranch staff or instructors, or simply the male counterparts to a few of the women. All of the subjects are dressed in typical western wear, with all but one of the women on horseback wearing a cowboy hat. A nice pair of photographs documenting women in the west in the mid-20th century.

Los Angeles: Jameson, 1916. Very good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 48.5 inches. Rolled. Light creasing and cracking at vertical edges; moderate soiling in upper right corner. A crisp image with good contrast, captioned in the negative. An excellent panoramic view of the two towns of Nogales, on the U.S-Mexico international boundary in Arizona and Sonora, taken by a Los Angeles photographer during the Mexican Revolution and Border War. The image was taken with a circuit-view camera and presents a wide-angle view of the Mexican and American settlements centered on the border, then just a road called International Street / Calle International, and the Plaza and City Hall of the Mexican Nogales. To the right of center are the two train stations directly adjacent to one another, straddling the border, with most of American Nogales further to the right and spreading into the background. The photograph was taken from a hill just on the Mexican side of the border, looking slightly northwest; captions in the… Read More

Fort Knox, Ky: June, 1941. Good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 36 inches. Vertical creases throughout, minor edge wear. The African-American soldiers of Company A, 4th Battalion of the United States Army's Armored Force Replacement Training Center are pictured here along with their white officers who sit at center of the first row. The company numbers almost 200 soldiers, all featured here in beige uniforms and envelope caps, arranged in four rows. The soldiers who composed the Armored Force were specially trained at Fort Knox in mechanized warfare, especially in tanks. "The Armored Force School and the Armored Force Replacement Center were officially established at Fort Knox on December 1, 1940. The school trained armored force soldiers in military fundamentals and in specific areas such as tank gunnery, armor tactics, communications and maintenance. As the armored force grew and the U.S. entered World War II, the school expanded proportionately. From an initial cadre of 155 officers and 1,458… Read More

Camp Pike, Ar: Ewing Incorporated, Official Photographers, Sept. 30, 1918. Fair.. Regularly-spaced heavy creasing, center crease almost split through, some small chips and tears, minor soiling. A wonderful image but will require preservation. A captivating panoramic photograph featuring the African American members of the 74th and 94th "casual" companies of the United States Army during their time training for service in World War I at Camp Pike, Arkansas. The caption in the negative reads, "Casual Cos. 74 & 94." Casual companies are nontraditional units of the Army meant as holding units for combat replacements, groups awaiting transport or discharge, a specialized unit assembled for specific duty, or one comprised of soldiers on convalescent duty. These units are not usually pictured in military photographs, much less in panoramic images during wartime. The present panoramic photograph features about 150 African American servicemen in uniform and a few white officers arranged in roughly four rows… Read More

Great Lakes, Il, 1943. Good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 19.75 inches. A handful of heavy vertical creases, irregularly rolled, moderate edge wear, minor soiling. A unique annotated panoramic photograph picturing the segregated Company 1011 of the United States Navy at the U.S. Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois during World War II. The photograph appears to have belonged to Emerson O. Norton of Paris, Illinois, whose name and address are written in the margin of the verso. The remainder of the verso is comprised of a penciled chart in which about half of the 133 Midshipmen have signed next to the number keyed to their image on the front of the photograph. The soldiers also sometimes include their address or home city next to their name; the soldiers hail from cities all over the country, including California, the Midwest (Michigan and Ohio), Missouri, and all the way down the eastern seaboard from New York to South Carolina, and the Deep South from Alabama to Louisiana. A wonderful… Read More

[N.p., but likely in or near San Mateo, Ca, 1950. Good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 52.25 inches. Moderate scuffing, soiling, some small creases, a few short closed tears, one repaired on verso, pinholes at corners and along edges. A wider-than-usual panoramic photograph capturing for posterity many of the commercial enterprises along Main Street in San Mateo, California in the mid-20th century. The unnamed photographer seems to have stood directly across from the Tecco Electric Construction Company and shot that side of Main Street from San Mateo Florist and Mohawk Gasoline to the left to well beyond the B.F. Goodrich on the right. Some of the other businesses include Sarganis Brothers Custom Interiors, Peninsula Wrought Iron Works, H.H. MacDonald Homes (offering houses in Glenwood Heights), Ferreira Paints, and L.K. Ward Home Appliances. A handful of blurry automobiles are pictured driving one way or another on the main thoroughfare. A wonderful snapshot of midcentury San Mateo that would make a… Read More

Mexico City, 1919. Good plus.. Large broadside, approximately 23.5 x 16 inches. Previously folded. Light wear and minor chipping at edges. A pair of conjugate wormholes, slightly affecting text. Somewhat browned, though not brittle. A fantastic and scarce broadside "newspaper" published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo just after World War I. The supposed periodical, El Panteon de Menudencias ("The Pantheon of Minutiae"), seems intended as an imitation of a low-brow gossip rag, and the text and small illustrations comprise vignettes and verse about famous Mexico City characters. The striking central image is variously attributed to Posada or to another of Arroyo's illustrators, but in any event it was certainly a re-use of the illustration after Posada's death. The large engraving depicts a six-legged insect with human hands, a worm's tail, and a calavera head, grasping a human skull and leg bone in its forelegs, and is amongst the most famous of the calaveras attributed to Posada. Although printed in the… Read More

Alto, La, 1952. Good.. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old folds, minor soiling, moderate chipping, not affecting text. A seemingly-unrecorded program for a fundraising rally by the parents and teachers of an African-American high school in Alto, Louisiana during the late Jim Crow period. The program prints the schedule of events for the day, including speeches, songs, sermons by local ministers, and so forth. There is also a list of local churches who are asked to donate to the rally. The committee members organizing the event are listed here, along with their message: "Come One! Come All! Let's Help Make Our Children the Best Citizens of Tomorrow by School, Church and Community Cooperating Together. Our Goal is $1,000.00." No holdings in OCLC.

[Havana, 1916. Very good.. Broadside, printed on light orange silk, approximately 16.25 x 9 inches. Minor edge wear, one small tear near bottom right. A seemingly unrecorded silk broadside issued by the Cuba-American Jockey Club Company, advertising the lineup of horses and the schedule for a series of five races during Dia de las Damas ("Ladies Day") at the Oriental Park racetrack in Marianao, Havana in 1916. In addition, the top of the broadside is printed with small oval- and diamond-shaped portraits picturing the nine officers of the club, who are identified by name and their position within the club. Below these portraits is a listing of fourteen officers of the club. The Oriental Park Racetrack ("Parque Oriental") opened in 1915 for winter racing which began in November and lasted into March each year. The racetrack was the only thoroughbred track in Cuba until Fidel Castro practically shut it down after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The present broadside is a visual reminder of the influx of… Read More