Spokane, Washington: The Bear Tribe Medicine Society, 1985. Quarto, stapled booklet, 56 pp, illustrated. Together with an 8 pp supplement laid in. Catalog of products sold by The Bear Tribe Medicine Society "an interracial center founded in 1971 by Sun Bear, an Ojibwe man who had a vision of people.....
New York: Frank M. Reed, 1874. 12mo, 5.75 x 4.75", 58, [4] pp, illustrations from drawings. A rare 19th century American magic guide. Includes instructions for tricks (some illustrated) like "The Head of the Decapitated Speaking," "How to Eat Fire," "To See a Future Husband", etc. Three in OCLC. Foxing.....
New York: George F. Cooledge, Circa 1840s. Octavo, tan printed wrappers, 47 pp, illustrated throughout. Chipping to wrappers, damp staining to upper corner of text, creasing to pages, crude hand coloring to illustrations.
New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, Publishers, Circa 1880s. 6 x 4”, 72 pp, racial caricature illustration to front cover. A collection of songs sung by Christy’s Minstrels, a prominent American minstrel troupe that pioneered the three act minstrel show consisting of Tambo, the interlocutor, and Mr. Bones. Toning and damp.....
Circa 1900. A collection of eleven photographs, each measuring approximately 4.25 x 6". Includes 4 cabinet cards and seven loose albumen or silver gelatin prints. A compelling group of images depicting members of the leper colony at Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, established in the 1890s by Reverend Arthur Huckett and his wife.....
New Haven, Ct: 1782. Partially printed document measuring 6.25 x 5.5", completed in manuscript. The document is an order to pay the New Haven Committee of supplies 50 pounds. It is signed crossways by Hezekiah Rogers, a major in the Revolutionary War and later a member of the Connecticut House.....
Missoula, Montana: Smead & Hershey, [1905]. Stapled booklet measuring 6.25 x 3.5", [12] pp, black and white photographic illustrations. A very good copy with mild creasing and soiling. A rare booklet promoting the sale of lands on the Flathead Reservation in Montana to white settlers. According to the preface, the.....
London/New York: Ernest Nister/E.P. Dutton, Circa 1900. 8vo, green cloth with gilt decorations and pictorial onlay, 356pp. Translated by L.L. Weedon and illustrated by Charles Robinson. Illustrated with color plates. An attractive copy with smudging to some pages, bit of wear to covers.
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1857. 5.75 x 4.75", cloth wrappers with gilt, 132 pp. Lavishly illustrated bible for children, making use of illustrations in place of words. Lacking pages 15-16 and 65-66, foxing to pages, staining to covers and some pages, front hinge cracked, wear to covers along edges.....
San Francisco: Nichibei Shimbun, 1953. Octavo, 8 x 5.5", grey stapled wrappers with brown titles in Japanese to front cover, [4], 47, [3] pp. "A citizenship pamphlet to assist the Issei to pass their naturalization examination" ("A Buried Past," 1447), published by a Japanese American newspaper in San Francisco. The.....
Mount Pleasant, Pa: 1899. 28 leaves of lined paper measuring 9.25 x 6.25”, containing 56 pages of ink manuscript, signed at the end “Venecia Taylor. Pleasant Mt. Wayne Co. Penna. Jan. 20, 1899. 6 A.M.” A history of the Spanish American war written by an African American woman living in.....
New York and Paris: Mariani & Company, 1905. Octavo, stapled wrappers, pp. 65-80. May, 1905 issue of a scarce periodical espousing the therapeutic benefits of coca leaves. The company was known for its "Mariani's Coca-Leaf Wine." This issue contains a series of short articles and blurbs, such as "Coca as.....
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1963. Seven volumes, in original red leatherette covers with plastic jackets, gilt spine titles. Each volume measures 7 x 4.5", slipcase is 7.5" tall and 4.5" wide. Original publisher's slip affixed to slipcase with title. Includes some Angrian Tales and Poems, also introductions and a biography.....
United Kingdom: 1894. Photo album binding measuring 6.25 x 5", containing 26 albumen photographs, all but one captioned, preceded by manuscript title page rendered in color, with title "CLCC Easter Tour in Derbyshire" together with the club's coat of arms. A photograph album depicting an Easter, 1894 tour through Derbyshire.....
Los Angeles: American Birobidjam Committee, [1946]. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.25", promoting a speaking event at Philharmonic Auditorium, featuring actor and entertainer George Jessel, Senator Warren Magnuson, and Jewish community leaders Isaac Pacht and Jacob Broches Aronoff. The event launched a fundraising effort for Jewish war orphans in Birobidjan, the.....
Various Places: 1882-1890. 8vo, contemporary quarter black morocco with black boards, gilt bands to spine, "Receipt Book" gilt stamped to spine. Includes four rare regional cookbooks, bound without wrappers; three are from Detroit, Michigan, the fourth is from Knoxville, Tennessee. Mild to moderate page toning, spine leather scuffed and chipped.....
Sacramento: Press of Jos. E. Anderson, 1905. Stapled pictorial wrappers, 8 x 6.5", [32] pp. A collection of poems by an anonymous inmate at San Quentin prison in California. The poems touch upon the experience of being in prison, for instance a poem titled "Paroled" and one titled "Justice", which.....
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, hardcover with dust jacket, 250 pp. An attractive copy. Area of staining to front cover, some fading to covers, owner inscription to front pastedown, toning to pages, rubbing, chipping and tearing to jacket.
Wilberforce, Ohio: Eckerle Printing Co, 1925. First Edition. Octavo, 24pp, green stapled wrappers. A pamphlet containing several slave narratives collected by Hallie Brown, told to her by her father, a freed enslaved person. Brown was a famed African American writer, educator, and women's rights advocate who taught at the Tuskegee.....
Honolulu: Patten Company, LTD and Honolulu Star Bulletin, LTD, 1920. Octavo, beige wrappers, [4], 134 pp. Sixth edition (first published 1879) of this important Hawaiian community cookbook. The preface notes that one of the goals of the cookbook was "to feature cookery of Hawaiian food products", and so the text.....
Lincoln, Nebraska: 1881. Quarto, 12.5 x 9.25", stitched periodical, pp. 81-96. Volume 1, No. 6, September, 1881. A single issue of the first suffrage newspaper published in the state of Nebraska. The paper was founded by Erasmus and Lucy Correll, a pair of "suffragist homesteaders" who claimed land under the.....
Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover with dust jacket, 181 pp. The hardcover edition of a special edition of Ebony magazine (August, 1965), featuring articles by Ebony staff writers and by James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. An attractive copy with slight foxing to.....
Norway, Maine: Asa Barton, 1827. Octavo, marbled boards with leather spine, 201, [3] pp. Wear to covers, toning and foxing to pages, owner inscription to front endpaper, damp staining to first few leaves.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: J. Horace McFarland Co, 1943. 6.5 x 4.5", stapled illustrated wrappers, 16 pp. A booklet containing anecdotes from the life of George Washington Carver, written by Reverend Dr. George Lake Imes, who knew Carver from his time working at the Tuskegee Institute between 1910 and 1935. According to.....
New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1915. First Edition. 8 x 5.25", blue cloth with white lettering, xxiii, [1], 292, [8] pp, photographic illustration plates. A handbook for nurses involved in the fight against tuberculosis, written by Ellen La Motte, a prominent American nurse, journalist, and author who was.....