Search Results: Authors starting with F from McBride Rare Books

Oakland, 1980. Very good.. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded and mailed. Light wear. A 1980 "Communal Grapevine" news sheet, with announcements for classes, want ads for housing in the Oakland Utopian community, and fundraising requests.

[Chuquicamata, Chile, 1919. Very good.. [33] leaves, illustrated with 236 mounted photographs, most with neatly-written manuscript captions within the image or on the album leaves. Oblong folio. Contemporary limp black pebbled cloth. Spine perished, edges chipped, some dust-soiling to boards, cloth covers partially detached but holding along spine. Contents generally clean, with bright, sharp images. An informative collection of original photographs documenting various structures involved in the commercial mining activities of the Guggenheim Family's Chile Exploration Company just after World War I. The same structures are pictured at various time periods over the course of the album, which is arranged in chronological order, in many cases showing the progress of construction. The manuscript title on the inside front cover reads: "Chile Exploration Co. Construction Department. Progress Pictures Dec. 1, 1917 to [blank]," with the final photographs dated in the early months of 1919. The photographs… Read More

[Various locations, mostly in Georgia and Florida, 1876. Very good.. Sixty manuscript letters and documents, totaling approximately 110pp., plus a handful of drawings and a manuscript architectural sketch. Some wear and occasional chipping and minor losses to letters. Occasional minor repairs. An eclectic and wide-ranging archive containing unique reportage of antebellum Georgia, as well as events during and after the Civil War, in the form of numerous letters and documents written to and among several members of the Bozeman and Lewis families of Georgia and Florida, as well as some of their friends and business associates. The letters largely concern the communication of family matters written to John Bozeman and Sarah Bozeman by various cousins and friends. The correspondents include Mary A. Bozeman, Abby E. Bozeman, Elisha W. Bozeman, Mary Turner, David Beasley, Mary A. Lewis, and others. One letter was written by John Bozeman, and several were written by Sarah A. Bozeman. The letters emanate… Read More

[Various places, 1932. About very good.. Approximately 150 letters, most 1-2pp. in length, plus several pieces of ephemera including calling cards, confirmation certificates, and newspaper clippings; also eighteen photographs (mostly cabinet card or carte-de-visite). Some light to moderate wear and soiling, most quite legible. A sprawling group of letters, documents, and photographs from the Leighton family of Scotland, Ireland, and England. Correspondents herein include the Scottish author John Murray Leighton; his son, Irish solicitor John Alexander Leighton; and Archibald Leighton, son of J. A. who moved to America, among others. John M. Leighton was the author of several works on Scotland, including Select Views of Glasgow (1828), Scenes in Scotland (1831), and Lakes of Scotland (1835). There are approximately fifty letters here addressed to him (at Glasgow, 1823-1826); these concern literary work as well as family matters. The other significant group of letters is written by John Alexander… Read More

[Various locations, including Wyoming, New York, Mississippi, and others, 1950. Very good.. Ten manuscript or typed letters, a pencil sketch of a mortar field, a penciled for a "Mortar Range," five greeting cards, two photographs, five War Ration books, a small collection of manuals and pamphlets, and assorted ephemera. Occasional minor wear and some soiling to letters, some wear to manuals and pamphlets. A tidy collection of letters, an original pencil sketch and accompanying manuscript documents, military and other manuals and pamphlets, received greeting cards and V-Mail, two photographs, and assorted ephemera sent to or belonging to a pair of Japanese-American brothers who both served in the famed 442nd Regimental Combat Team during the Second World War, and assorted members of their family. Most of the letters are sent to George or Jiro Okano, and from a variety of correspondents including a fellow soldier (writing from Camp Robinson, Arkansas) and various family members and friends. Two of the… Read More

[Various locations in Texas and New Jersey, 1922. Very good.. [49] leaves, illustrated with 352 black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs, between 1.75 x 2.5 and 8 x 10 inches, in mounting corners or glued down, almost all annotated in ink with the name of the subject, the date, and sometimes the location. Oblong folio. Contemporary plain brown pebbled cloth photograph album. Minor wear to extremities, light dust-soiling to boards. Numerous empty mounts throughout, but the 350+ remaining photographs are generally well preserved. A large annotated vernacular photograph album containing over 350 pictures, most of which relate to the Schuler family, who split their time between Texas and New Jersey. The pictures capture family members and numerous friends of all ages and at various activities, such as the celebration of holidays like Easter and Christmas, enjoying the beach in Galveston, posed with their automobiles, raising children, at childrens' party, and fishing at Lake Worth, among other… Read More

[Various locations, including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, California, 1931. Very good.. [45] leaves, illustrated with 185 original photographs, from 2.75 x 2 inches to 6.5 x 4 inches, the great majority measuring 5.75 x 3.5 inches, and a few postcards, most with manuscript annotations on the borders of the images or on the album pages. Oblong folio. Contemporary textured black cloth, gilt title on front cover, string tied. Moderate rubbing to covers, bottom edge worn, corners creased. Internally clean, photographs in very nice shape. A well-annotated vernacular photograph album chronicling about two decades of the travels and experiences of Ray Royse and his family as they trekked from Illinois to California through the Upper West in the first quarter of the 20th century. The Royse family started in Aledo, Illinois, and numerous photographs feature various family members here. They then traveled through Casper, Wyoming, Great Falls and Butte, Montana, and other locations before settling in Long… Read More

Freestone County, Tx, 1866. Good.. [3]pp. on a folded folio sheet. Old folds, lightly tanned. Slight biopredation affecting a few letters. Letter written by a gentleman in Texas to his friend, discussing the land and farming in Freestone County and the surrounding area. Freestone County is located about sixty miles south of Dallas on the route to Houston, and was established in 1850. In the mid 1860s, the county had a population of about 7,000 residents scattered across the countryside. He writes, in part: "Dear friend according to promise I write you a few lines relative to this and other portions of Texas that I have seen, I have visited about 25 counties. This is a medium county mostly timbered and sandy, but from here west or north it is soiled prairie, and from here east is a timbered country. ... Texas as a general thing is level, in some places water is scarce, but this season there is an abundant supply. This and adjoining counties is mostly cotton country, but wheat, oats & C grow very… Read More

New York, 1877. Good.. 31,[1]pp. Folio. Original orange pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling, some minor loss to wrappers. Text toned, slight biopredation to final leaf. A lovely catalogue of patterns for clothing of all types issued by E. Butterick & Co. The catalogue opens with styles for ladies' coats and dresses, moving on to wraps and jackets, then skirts and tops, followed by essentials such as bloomers and corsets and aprons and chemises. There is a section of clothing for "Misses and Girls," as well as doll patterns, children's clothing, and "Boys and Gentlemen." Menswear includes everything from smoking jackets and caps to overalls and kneebreeches. The rear cover advertises Singer Sewing Machines, which received numerous awards at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia the previous year. The front cover notes agents for Singer machines in Galveston, Texas, pinpointing the distribution area for the present catalogue. An excellent source for fashions of the period.

Philadelphia, 1883. Very good.. Vol. I, Nos. 1-13. Each issue 8pp. Large folio. Loose issues stitched together at an early date. Light wear and soiling to outer leaves, heaviest to first leaf. Daily newspaper published by the Old Guard State Fencibles of Philadelphia during the Fair of the Infantry Battalion held at Industrial Hall in Philadelphia in November 1883. The State Fencibles were a Philadelphia militia unit founded in 1813 and disbanded in 1900 with the advent of the National Guard. The fair for which this paper was issued was a gala bazaar fundraiser which lasted two weeks and drew over 10,000 visitors on the opening evening. The content is comprised primarily of advertising, with a few pieces on members of the unit and goings-on around the fair. Notably, the first page of each issue features a woodcut portrait of one of the members. We find no copies of this periodical in OCLC, and presume it was issued in a small number for members of the battalion. It was clearly a souvenir of the… Read More

Mexico City: Mariano de Zuñiga y Ontiveros, 1801. Good.. [8],26,129pp. Small quarto. Disbound, a bit roughly. Minor damage along gutter of initial and final gatherings. Light dampstaining along top edge, scattered foxing. Text block cocked; oversewn, affecting inner margin. A scarce Marian sermon on the appearances of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The author, José Patricio Fernandez de Uribe, was a native of Mexico City who died at age fifty-four in the town of San Augustín de las Cuevas in 1796. He gave this sermon in 1777, but it was not published until making this posthumous appearance. More than a sermon, it is actually a disquisition that canvasses the body of evidence to support the miraculous four appearances of the Virgin to Juan Diego in 1531 as true occurrences. His speech is artfully expanded upon with a large appendix that in fact occupies the preponderance of the text, with a separate title page and calling itself a "Disertacion Historico-critico" on the subject. In both works, Fernandez… Read More

Grand Rapids, 1910. Very good.. [16]pp. Original green wrappers, cover gilt, string-tied. Minor wear to wrappers, small ink stamp on rear cover; small ink stamp on verso of title page. Internally clean. Unrecorded work comprised of four poems interspersed with Bible quotations. All four pieces are, unsurprisingly, religious in nature. We find no record of the work or the author in OCLC.

Guatemala: Imprenta de Joachin de Arevalo, Impressor de, 1756. Very good plus.. [23]pp. Small quarto. Later marbled wrappers. Very light dampstaining at fore-edge, otherwise minor toning and dust soiling. A quite rare, mid-18th-century Guatemalan imprint, comprising a pastoral letter by Francisco José de Figueredo y Victoria, the Archbishop of Guatemala, that advises immediate and intense penitence by worshippers in the wake of the Great Lisbon Earthquake, which struck the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa on November 1, 1755, and destroyed the Portuguese capital. Figueredo was a native of New Granada and became the Bishop of Popayán before being installed as Archbishop of Guatemala in 1753. In the present letter to the public, he ruminates on the numerous biblical exemplars of natural disasters and calls upon the faithful to exercise themselves strenuously in prayer and penitence as a response to such obvious and devastating Divine Justice. "Los Terremotos son voces, son avisos de Dios," he… Read More

[N.p., 1935. Very good.. Photographically illustrated film herald, 12 x 6 inches. Even toning, minor edge wear, short closed tear near top edge. A rare small broadside advertising a true crime presentation including real footage related to the shooting death of famed gangster John Dillinger. This "sensational story," most likely a newsreel mixed with a reenactment of Dillinger's assassination, promised to show "actual authentic pictures," "the ambulance that hauled him away," and "Dillinger's body on a cold slab in the undertakers morgue." The herald includes a portrait of Dillinger himself. The Dillinger film was paired with an action western from 1930 titled, Trails of Danger. An early entry in American true crime and a wonderful display piece.

Fort Worth, 1877. Very good.. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded. Two very short separations at top edge. Light tanning. This handbill, dated June 4, 1877, announces the closing of the California and Texas Bank and the formation of a new entity, the City National Bank of Fort Worth. The directors of the new company included W.J. Boaz and J. Markee, the directors of the California and Texas Bank, as well as J. Nichols, C.R. Morehead, Jr., and A.M. Britton, who as the bank's first president. It reads in part: "Having assisted in the formation of a being interested in the City National Bank of Fort Worth, we beg to announce to our correspondents, customers and friends that on and after this dates, the California and Texas Bank of Boaz, Marklee &Co., will discontinue business. All unfinished business remaining in our hands will be attended to by the City National Bank, and we respectfully solicit for the new bank a continuance of the liberal patronage enjoyed by us, believing that our former… Read More

[Monterey]: Imprenta de Gobierno a Cargo del Ciudadano Sixto Gonzalez, 1829. Very good plus.. [9]pp., plus nineteen tables, some folding and completed in manuscript. Small folio. 20-century full calf, tooled in blind and gilt, dyed title panel on front board. Very minor wear and scuffing. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Light tanning. The constitution of Nuevo Léon required its Secretary of State to provide an annual account of income and expenses for the state's operation. The present work contains a seven-page narrative report on various government operations, public health, jails, roads, education, industry, agriculture, the church, and the military. Following this account are nineteen tables with statistical data for these subject areas, each signed in print and with the manuscript rubric of the state secretary, Pedro del Valle. Interestingly, two of the tables that record census data for the population of Nuevo Léon and the sum of livestock and cattle in the state are both completed in… Read More

[Bartlesville, Ok, 1925. Very good.. 48pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Very light creasing and wear to wraps. Contemporary pencil annotations. Light tanning internally. An early, anecdotal history of the Osage Reservation, written by Thomas McKean Finney, a former Indian trader and longtime resident of the Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Finney was a descendant of Declaration signer and Pennsylvania governor Thomas McKean. He arrived in the Indian Territory in 1873 at the age of seventeen and established himself as a trader at the Osage and Kaw Agencies for the rest of the 1800s. The text contains accounts of episodes from the first fifty years of the reservation (established in 1872, roughly coinciding with Finney's tenure in the region), as well as reproductions of photographs depicting 19th-century life there and at the agency. Rader 1392. Wilson, Bibliography of the Osage 532.

[Various locations in Florida], 1901. About very good.. [16] leaves, illustrated with thirty-two original vernacular photographs, all 3.5 x 3.5 inches, most with manuscript captions in ink above the images. Oblong octavo. Contemporary gray paper wrappers, white titles on front cover. Spine mostly split, a few shallow chips to edges. Internally clean. A small but important vernacular photograph album containing rare views of the devastation wrought by the Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, which took place on May 3, 1901. The most destructive event in the history of Jacksonville, the Great Fire swept through 146 city blocks, destroying over 2,000 buildings, killing seven people, and leaving almost 10,000 residents without homes. It is considered the third-largest urban fire in United States history, after the Great Chicago Fire and the 1906 San Francisco conflagration. The photographs in the present album were taken by an unidentified passenger aboard the Clyde Line steamer Comanche. Eight… Read More

Jacksonville, Fl: March 15, 1858. Very good plus.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old mailing folds. An informative dispatch from antebellum Florida from A.C Scranton to "Friend Barton" in 1858. In his letter, Scranton reports that despite some problems, he is enjoying southern people and general life in Florida: "The people generally in the south are very kind & hospitibal, but I need hardly to tell you that Florida has got some hard times as every new state or Territory has but thare is a more healthy Emigration coming in every year I have been fortunate anough to find some Northern people here which makes it seam a little more like home to me. I am boarding with a family from Georgia whome I like first rate & I do just as I would at home so that things are quite pleasant here considering I am amongst strangers." He then provides information on Jacksonville and then two disasters that hit his adopted hometown: "Jacksonville is the largest place in Florida & had at one time about 3,000… Read More

[N.p., but probably New York, 1935. Very good.. [118] leaves of typescript printed on rectos only, plus a photographic frontispiece, three plates (one folding), and color manuscript map. Contemporary stiff card covers, tan leather backstrip, with a cyanotype of the author laid under a chipped clear acetate dust jacket. One other cyanotype laid in. Some wear and abrading to edges, rather clean internally. A homemade autobiographical production by an obscure German-American artist active in New Jersey and New York in the first few decades of the 20th century. Reinhold Forkel (1879-1947) was born in Mittelberg, a German village he locates on the "southern slope of Thuringia" near Coburg in Upper Franconia on the manuscript map he produced here. Forkel gives information about his education, which included ten years in public schools followed by thirty-eight months at the Industrial College of Schalkau, where he earned a reputation as a talented artist. Following his schooling, Forkel worked in the… Read More