Search Results: Titles starting with F from McBride Rare Books

[N.p., likely near Bogalusa, La, 1914. Very good.. [5]pp., on a single folded sheet of cardstock. Oblong 12mo. Some toning and dust-soiling, light chipping to one edge. A seemingly unrecorded promotional item touting the economic advantages of Bogalusa, Louisiana, located near the Mississippi border in the northeastern portion of the state. The population of the town is given as "10,000, of which 6500 are whites and 3500 colored." The text primarily promotes the lumber industry, as well as the mills, railroads, schools, hotels, and other amenities offered by the town. One item brags that "Every house occupied by a white person, in Bogalusa, has modern sanitary conveniences and electric lights." The last two lines highlight Bogalusa's "fine Base Ball Park" and that fact that "There were 363 babies born in Bogalusa in the year 1913" (the only date listed anywhere on the item). No copies of the present publication in OCLC - just a similarly titled but more official publication produced by the Bogalusa… Read More

[New York: Haven Press, 1947. Very good.. 190pp., plus four pages of photographic portraits preceding the text. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing and spotting to boards. Text lightly toned but clean. A scarce collection of poetry and prose by Frank B. Coffin of Little Rock, Arkansas. Coffin, an African-American pharmacist and poet, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi, earned his pharmacist's diploma at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and spent the rest of his life as one of the first Black pharmacists in Little Rock. Two books of his poems were published during his life -- Coffin's Poems With Ajax' Ordeals published in 1897 and this book, published fifty years later. Both volumes are difficult to find, so we are not sure how much of the material in the present work appeared in some form in the earlier book. We notice that Ajax, who shows up in the title of the first book, appears in the title of sixteen poems in this later book. Other intriguing titles in the present work… Read More

[N.p., likely Hansford, Tx.], 1909. Very good.. Printed broadside, 22 x 7.5 inches. Moderate even toning, a few short closed edge tears, old folds. A very rare broadside listing the "cash premiums" for various livestock, crop yields, prepared foods, and other products and services at an agricultural fair in Hansford, Texas in the first decade of the 20th century. Hansford is located in the far north-central portion of the Texas panhandle. Among other interesting details, the text at the top of the broadside indicates the previous year's fair was centered around the promotion of the Enid, Ochiltree and Western Railroad. The fair advertised here brought together the ranchers of three counties - Hansford, Hutchinson, and Ochiltree - for the 1909 fair, which would once again focus on "encouraging agricultural development" in the area. The livestock detailed here include horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, and poultry. Among the crops to be judged are wheat, oats, barley, corn, alfalfa, peas, beans, potatoes,… Read More

Portland, 1886. Good.. Broadsheet, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old fold lines, light wear and soiling, a few chips. Rare and ephemeral handbill for "Fairdale Bitter Water," marketed as a mineral water with remarkable health benefits for a variety of ailments. "The possibilities of this water are almost beyond belief, as any reputable physician will testify...." One side of the broadsheet contains an engraving of the product, "put up in elegant flint glass bottles containing a full quart." A nice piece of medical quack advertising from the Pacific Northwest.

Medford, Or, 1949. Very good plus.. 239,[1]pp. plus large folding map, 17 x 21.5 inches. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling. Contemporary note taped to inside of front cover. Internally clean, map clean with minor wear. Directory for Medford City in Jackson County, Oregon, compiled and published by the local Mormon church. It includes a brief history and promotional text for the town, an index for advertisers, lists of churches and civic clubs, a "yellow pages," and a list of residents both alphabetically and by street address. "It would be hard to find a city better endowed with the qualities necessary for happy and successful living than is Medford." The page facing the start of the alphabetical white pages is a full-page ad for the compilers, featuring a woodcut of the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City with text below that reads, "This directory compiled and published by the missionaries and Medford Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints." The map at… Read More

[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas, 1866. Very good.. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other documents. Generally nice condition, with some fading to a small portion of the letters. An excellent archive of descriptive letters written by U.S. Army Second Lieutenant Lemuel K. Westcott, mainly to his wife and father, along with letters written to him by various family members, two service-time photographs of Westcott, and numerous supporting documents and papers. Westcott mustered into the 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry in August 1861, and most notably served under General William T. Sherman during the March to the Sea in the summer and fall of 1864, and then later as part of the peacekeeping force sent to Texas just after the war. Lieutenant… Read More

San Francisco: A.C. Berthier & Co. General Agents, 1896. Good.. [4]pp. on a single large folio sheet. Printed entirely in green ink. Numerous well-executed tape repairs and reinforcements along fold lines and edges. Minor soiling and rubbing. A decidedly rare real estate promotional for a neighborhood development which now stands in the southernmost portion of Oakland, California. Originally a separate unincorporated town, Elmhurst was annexed by Oakland in 1909, and today is considered part of East Oakland. The present promotional work on Elmhurst includes a variety of text touting the advantages of the subdivision, including "Cement sidewalks laid in front of every lot," "No residence smaller than 10 x 125 feet," and "A Perfect Paradise for Children." The inner two pages of the present promotional fold out to reveal a large plat map of the Andrew Jones subdivision called the "Jones Tract." This neighborhood, surveyed in November 1895 by J. George Smith, is intended to be serviced by both the… Read More

Chicago: South and West Land Company, 1906. About very good.. 15pp. Quarto. Original green printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers lightly faded, light soiling and wear. Minor internal soiling, some rust from staples, leaves loosening. Promotional work for the South and West Land Company with a map of the railroad routes spreading out across Kansas to northern Texas. Statistics are given as to the climate, soil, precipitation, and the wealth of agriculture in the region. The work is illustrated with half tones of scenes in the countryside including cattle, crops, and farming. The work outlines the advantages of homesteading in Texas -- its fine schools, the lost cost of land, the advantages of the location, and the beauty of the countryside. Five copies located in OCLC, all in Texas institutions.

[Philadelphia, 1920. Good.. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Tanned and somewhat brittle, minor edge chipping, some short closed edge tears. A seemingly unrecorded promotional touting the talents of the now-obscure Famous Suwanee River Quartette. The group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio around 1910 and led by John Gantt, traveled extensively for almost fifteen years, and became especially well-known for their rendition of "Old Black Joe," which is mentioned here. The present pamphlet, a most ephemeral item, advertises the group with press releases, reviews, "recent press comments," descriptions of the musical strengths of Gantt as well as the other performers as a whole. The text claims that "Mr. Gantt is entitled to supremacy in this field...he is a master interpreter of the songs, melodies, and folk lore of the Southern Negro." The work is illustrated with photographs of the musicians with their instruments on both the front cover and the internal two-page spread. No copies in OCLC.

[Raleigh?], 1911. Good plus.. 23pp. Square 12mo. Original black cloth. Minor wear to covers, text block detached. Minor soiling, small ink stamp to final blank and verso of title page. A rare little volume published by author and English instructor Harry Houston Peckham, possibly in North Carolina during his time teaching there. Though the author does take a turn at sentimentality, there is a modern flavor to his work, with titles such as "The Awakening of Old Richmond (News Item: 'Richmond's Increase in Population, Between 1900 and 1910, Was More Than 50 Per Cent.')" and "Lines. Composed on Hearing Geraldine Farrar Sing 'Manon Lescant.'" We locate a single institutional copy in OCLC, at Brown University.

[Billings, 1917. Good plus.. [18]pp. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light dust soiling and wear to wraps. Central pair of leaves detached. Slightly later gift inscription on title page. Scare account of a fishing trip made by the Yellowstone County Bar Association to Stillwater River, near its confluence with the Yellowstone, in 1917. The group travelled from Billings, Montana, and made camp on the river north of Custer National Forest. The pamphlet is illustrated with several reproductions of engaging photographs, and the text provides a humorous report of the occasion. We locate one copy, at the Montana Historical Society.

Denver, 1900. Very good.. Folding pamphlet, 8.75 x 18 inches. Light tanning. Scarce promotional pamphlet for irrigated lands north of Springer, New Mexico, in Colfax County, courtesy of the Maxwell Land Grant Company. The "Springer Ditch System" drew its water from the Cimarron River, and irrigated the southern portion of the Maxwell grant, which in total consisted of nearly 1.75 million acres in northeastern New Mexico. Illustrated with a double-page map of the grant.

[Burlington, Ia: Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, 1872. Very good.. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort Kearney, where it linked up with the Union Pacific. The present work is comprised primarily of price charts for lands in Iowa and Nebraska, with interest rates and terms on different acreages. "These Iowa and Nebraska lands are not exceeded in fertility, beauty and all attractions and advantages of locality and soil which are essential in the estimation of farmers, by any region in the world...." A map of the route is printed on the rear cover. An ephemeral little piece -- not located in OCLC.

[Pampa?], 1910. Very good.. 24pp. 12mo. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Clean and fresh. One signature loosening. A lovely little promotional for Pampa, Texas, "a growing town of 500 inhabitants located on the Santa Fe Railroad." The work is illustrated throughout, highlighting the towns businesses and residences. Rare -- we locate three copies in OCLC, all in Texas institutions.

Rio de Janeiro: February 16, 1844. Very good.. [7]pp., written in a secretarial hand, but signed and dated by Gardiner. Folio. Gathered bifolia, stitched. Minor dust-soiling. Thin strip of paper running along the spine of the last page with paper remnants. A manuscript report composed by Capt. Allen Francis Gardiner (1794-1851), a British Royal Navy officer and missionary. Gardiner spent some time in Zululand where he tried to establish a mission near Port Natal, and according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, from "1838 to 1843 he worked among the Indians of Chile, and went from island to island in the South American archipelago, but his efforts were foiled by the opposition of the various governments.... His first visit to Tierra del Fuego took place on 22 March 1842, when, coming from the Falkland Islands in the schooner Montgomery, he landed in Oazy harbour. The Church Missionary Society was now under pressure to send out missionaries to Patagonia but declined on the ground of… Read More

[Lake Forest, Il: The Author, 1910. Very good.. 44pp. Original plain black cloth. Minor wear and light soiling. Ink ownership inscription on inside front cover, "Purchased August 1910 Mr. Pickard Kennedy." Occasional spotting, minor toning, a few leaves creased. An uncommon book of poetry by an obscure African American author named Paul Lindsay Russell. According to the introduction of the author here, Russell was born in "a little hamlet in the State of South Carolina in 1890." Also according to the introduction, Russell did not enjoy the privilege of an education, and "his knowledge of reading was picked up at odd times, often under the most trying conditions." However, this did not deter Russell from becoming an author: "Mr. Russell from his earliest infancy was a dreamer, and as soon as he learned to read, he had the peculiar ability of writing poetry in his own way." This Introduction is printed opposite a photographic portrait of Russell. The text prints thirty-nine poems by Russell, mostly on… Read More

Mexico: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1911. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 14 x 9.5 inches. Light toning and dust soiling. A celebratory political broadside published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in the wake of victories by Francisco Madero and his revolutionary generals over Porfirio Diaz in 1911. The broadside prints four separate verses, the first of which, under the heading "Fiesta Floral," imagines an allegory in which the people and the country are showered with flowers and wrapped in the national flag in celebration of the achievement of peace and freedom. The remaining verses printed on the lower half of the sheet praise three key figures of Diaz's overthrow -- Madero's wife, "the First Lady of the Revolution," Sara Perez Romero; General Pascual Orozco, leader of revolutionary forces in Chihuahua; and Aquiles Serdan, a political supporter of Madero in Puebla who, along with his family, was killed by Diaz's police in 1910. Each verse is headed by a photographic portrait of the… Read More

[Browning, Mt, 1900. Very good plus.. Fifty-four real photo postcards, each approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Occasional minor wear; light dust soiling. A substantial collection of almost fifty-five real photo postcards carrying the images and work of Thomas B. Magee, a noted photographer of the Blackfeet Native American tribes in Northwestern Montana during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Magee maintained a commercial studio in Browning, Montana, which was continued by his son Henry following his death in 1930. The elder Magee was married to a Blackfeet Pikuni woman named Julia Howling and was a friendly colleague of Walter McClintock, the most prolific of the early 20th-century Montana Indian photographers. Like McClintock, he had the trust of the Blackfeet (in this case, because of his marriage), and therefore had greater access to their daily lives and activities. "As postmaster of Browning and husband of a Pikunni woman, Magee knew the people so well that he was generally welcome… Read More

Little Rock, 1944. Very good.. 29pp. 16mo. Original black cloth, gilt titles on front cover. Minor edge wear. Minor toning to title leaf. An unrecorded African-American Masonic pocket book published for the Trinity Lodge of Little Rock, Arkansas. The work includes the original charter, the twenty articles comprising the organization's by-laws, and a roster of ninety-two members. This copy belonged to one of those members, M.B. Jeffries and contains five pages of his manuscript entries recording his monthly dues payments over the course of five years, from 1944-48. The manuscript entries include the dues amount, date of payment, as well as the signature or ink stamp of the officials who accepted Jeffries' payments. Following the title page are two full-page photographic portraits, featuring the club's master J.H. Kennedy and secretary E.A. Stevenson, both also listed in the lodge roster. No copies in OCLC.

Sacramento, 1869. Still very good.. 43pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine ends chipped; light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Even tanning, occasional foxing internally. Biannual message of Governor Henry Huntly Haight to the state legislature of California at the outset of its eighteenth session in December 1869. Haight was notable for his strongly racist and anti-immigrant views, and was elected in 1867 with no prior experience based on his anti-Chinese, anti-Reconstruction platform. Remarkably he was an early Republican and supported both Frémont and Lincoln for President, but joined the Democratic Party in 1863 after the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. His views are reflected in the present address, particularly in the section on immigration: "We need population -- not of races inferior in natural traits, pagan in religion, ignorant of free institutions, and incapable of sharing in them without putting the very existence of those institutions in peril -- but we need immigrants… Read More