Search Results: Authors starting with U from McBride Rare Books

Washington, D.C., 1870. Very good.. 4,4pp. Gathered signatures. Even toning, short closed tears to fore edge. A seemingly unrecorded memorial, printed first in Spanish and followed by an English version, written by Nonato Patino, seeking recompense for a controversial incident on the Texas-Mexico border involving the Texas Rangers during what became known as the Callahan Expedition. According to the first few lines of the English translation of de Patino's memorial, which was submitted to the Claims Commission of 1868: "That in the month of October, A.D. 1855, an armed force of more than two hundred Americans, under the command of Captains Callahan and Henry, having crossed the Rio Grande from Texas in the United States, entered and took possession of the town of Piedras Negras in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, and by force of arms disarmed all the inhabitants of the town, and with many insults, threats and cruelties, drove them from their houses and caused them to flee from the town to the woods.… Read More

[Washington, D.C., 1870. Very good.. 3,3pp., formerly sewn. Moderate even toning. A seemingly unrecorded memorial, printed first in Spanish and followed by an English version, written by Severo de Luna, seeking recompense for a controversial incident on the Texas-Mexico border involving the Texas Rangers during what became known as the Callahan Expedition. According to the first few lines of the English translation of de Luna's memorial, which was submitted to the Claims Commission of 1868: "That in the month of October, A.D. 1855, an armed force of more than two hundred Americans, under the command of Captains Callahan and Henry, having crossed the Rio Grande from Texas in the United States, entered and took possession of the town of Piedras Negras in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, and by force of arms disarmed all the inhabitants of the town, and with many insults, threats and cruelties, drove them from their houses and caused them to flee from the town to the woods. After having pillaged them of… Read More

Mexico: Imprenta de I. Cumplido, 1881. Very good plus.. 120pp. Original printed wrappers, bound into later polished calf, gilt ruled and lettered. Minor toning to text. An unrecorded Mexican governmental report containing a section about the United States, with interesting information about the borderlands. The report begins by stating that the policy of borderland intervention by the United States has been suspended. This was affected by the repeal of the authorization by President Rutherford B. Hayes' executive order of 1877, which gave the general of the army the power to cross the southern U.S. border in pursuit of hostile elements. This extraterritorial authority represented a unilateral response to the lack of control in the borderlands, where the frequency of cattle rustling, banditry, and indigenous incursions were a regular source of tension on both sides. In Mexico, however, these measures were perceived as the resurgence of a threat of annexation or an attempt to establish a protectorate… Read More

Tokyo: Shinkosha, 1924. Very good, overall.. [2],4,[2],4,[26],192,[4]pp., plus three folding maps at rear. Original printed cloth boards, with contemporary glassine wrapper affixed to pastedowns; in original cardstock box with printed paper labels. Minor fading and soiling to cloth. Early ownership inscription and owner's ink stamps on rear pastedown. Light toning internally. Moderate wear and a couple of repaired tears to card box, but still a nice example. "A guidebook for Hawaii based on personal impressions, with notes on Hawaii's history, industry, agriculture, education, social organizational activities, and individuals."— The Japanese in Hawaii. According to the same reference, the author was an early immigrant to Hawaii and a promoter of the islands to other citizens of Japan. In his introduction to the present book, Uehara explains that he is offering a guide book to the islands because he was not aware of any other guides published in Japanese and most Japanese visitors to the United… Read More

San Juan, Tx: Texas Farm Workers' Union, 1980. Very good.. Eight issues, tabloid format newspaper, each 12pp., plus a couple of mimeographed inserts. Center horizontal fold, minor wear and toning, a couple of longer closed tears but overall in nice shape. A small but notable collection of eight issues of El Cuhamil, the official newspaper of the Texas Farm Workers' Union. The paper was issued from the border town of San Juan in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas by the union, and printed in both Spanish and English in a dos-a-dos fashion. The paper covers affairs relevant to farm workers and the agricultural labor movement in the 1970s, with features on the TFW strike in 1976, the Coors boycott, the imprisonment of Chicano activist Ramon Chacon and others, the 1977 Human Rights March, and much more. The paper also reports on community news, includes letters to the editor, and transmits news of the activities of other labor groups across the country and in other countries. Some of the starker… Read More

[Virginia City, Nv, 1896. Very good.. Three items, totaling [5]pp. Light wear and soiling. Three neat documents of early mining unions in Nevada during the last quarter of the 19th century. The two principal pieces here comprise oaths of office and certifications of the elections for the trustees of the Virginia City Nevada Miners' Union in 1877 and 1880. The union was founded in 1867 (after a previous "protective association," formed in 1863, had collapsed), and a union hall building that was constructed in 1877 is still standing in Virginia City. Each document consists of two attached sheets, one a manuscript attestation by the recording secretary that certifies the results of the annual elections for union trustees, and the other a partially printed form completed in manuscript that served as the oath of office for the trustees, signed by each recently elected member. Also present is an 1896 dues card for the Storey County, Nevada, chapter of the Ancient Order of United Workers, completed in full… Read More

Newell, Ca: November, 1944. Very good.. [1],3pp., mimeographed forms printed on rectos only. Minor wear, small paper clip rust stains to top edges. A cover letter datelined "November [blank], 1944 Newell, California" intended to accompany the attached blank version of the actual application, intended for use by Tule Lake internees wishing to renounce their United States citizenship. The cover letter is pre-addressed to the Attorney General and Edward J. Ennis, the director of the Justice Department's Alien Enemy Control Unit in Washington, D.C. The form letter begins, "I wish to renounce my United States nationality in accordance with the recent government promulgation, so I am enclosing a typewritten copy of this application form, executed by me." A blank copy of the application is included here, numbering three pages. The application includes a renunciation statement intended to be signed by applicants, followed by ten questions pertaining to the applicant's history of birth, residence, last point… Read More

Colorado Springs, 1957. Near fine.. Twenty-five scripts, totaling 335 pages, each between seven and twenty-three pages, each with a pictorial title leaf, all stapled, plus two ephemeral items, totaling nine pages. Minor edge wear and light toning. Ephemeral items folded. A complete run of transcripts for all twenty-five episodes of DelVina Wheeldon's landmark radio show about the United States Air Force, broadcast in Cincinnati during the middle years of the Eisenhower era. DelVina Wheeldon (also identified variously as Delvina or Del Vina) hosted a popular weekly radio show called, "It's a Woman's World" on Cincinnati radio station WCKY, where she also served as the Women's Programming Director. She earned a fair bit of fame after a series of shows on the U.S. Air Force which were designed to demystify jet flying and its supposed dangers. Her credibility on the subject was secured after she, according to one of the ephemeral items included here, "strapped herself into an Air Force jet and was flown… Read More

Tokyo: Daikosha, 1928. Very good.. [2],6,296,[4]pp. Original color-printed wrappers. Light foxing and dust soiling to wraps. Moderate tanning, heavier at edges. "Analysis of American society in the late 1920s by an anonymous Japanese observer living in the United States. The author comments on a wide range of subjects including housing, food, transport, labor unions, courtship, gender roles, marriage and religion. The author shares candid observations and comparisons between America and Japan." -- Huntington Library. An attractive copy in the publisher's original decorated wrappers, inscribed on the front free endpaper. OCLC locates only the copy at the Huntington.

London: Ackermann, 1826. Very good.. [2],xi,96pp. 16mo. Original tan printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling. Minor foxing and toning to contents. A scarce work on natural history published for the Spanish-American market. The author, Jose de Urcullu, was a Spaniard who emigrated to London in 1823 where he was employed by Ackermann as a translator for a number of works on a wide variety of subjects. Most were formatted as the present work, as a small catechism. This piece starts out with the question, "¿Que es Historia Natural?" and proceeds to explain in a series of question and answer segments. We locate four copies in OCLC, at the British Library, Cambridge, Columbia University, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.

[San Francisco, 1980. Very good.. [4]pp., on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light wear and minor soiling. Entertaining pseudoscholarship on the connections between socialism and "polyfidelity," i.e. having multiple loyal partners, in communal living situations. According to the author bio, Furchgott was "a founding member of Kerista Village, an egalitarian, Utopian intentional community based in San Francisco," as well a participant in the Purple Submarine, "a polyfidelitous family group.