Search Results: Titles starting with G from McBride Rare Books

Billings: Billings Advertising Co, 1927. About very good.. 40pp. plus folding map, 8.5 x 14.25 inches. Narrow quarto. Original orange-gold printed pictorial wrappers, stapled. A bit worn, some light soiling. A scarce promotional brochure which includes detailed descriptions of dude ranches, points of interest, and considerable information on Yellowstone National Park. Additionally, the brochure includes early halftone photographs, advertising for local businesses, a street map of Billings, and an early road map of the area delineating all the main highways. Given the date, the roads all bear names rather than numbers, which had not yet been instituted -- "Yellowstone Trail," "Billings Cody Way," "Glacier to Gulf Motorway." The street map of Billings refers back to a business directory, with the map noting, "If some individual in Billings or anywhere else overcharges you or doesn't give you friendly and courteous treatment, do not hold it against the whole town -- he probably doesn't know any better.… Read More

New York, 1830. Very good.. Broadside form, approximately 12.5 x 8.25 inches. Formerly mounted, with some adhesive remnants at top edge. Light creasing at lower edge. Faint foxing. A subscription form for the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, which sought to attract colonists to land granted to Lorenzo de Zavala, Joseph Vehlein, and David G. Burnet in southeast Texas in the early 1830s. The present form is completed for one of the principal land owners in the scheme, Lorenzo de Zavala, and is signed by him on the verso. Zavala went on to play a major role in the Texas Revolution and became the first Vice President of the Republic of Texas. "The Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company was founded in New York on October 16, 1830, for the purpose of colonizing the lands assigned to the empresarios Joseph Vehlein, David G. Burnet, and Lorenzo de Zavala. The colonization contracts covered an area in East Texas lying east of the San Jacinto River and south of a line running twenty leagues north of… Read More

Canyon City, Tx, 1907. Good.. [32]pp. Profusely illustrated with monotone photographs. Slim quarto. Moderate soiling and wear to wrappers, slight biopredation. Light wear and soiling to contents. A rare land promotional touting the advantages of Canyon City, Texas (known now simply as Canyon). Established in 1887, Canyon City became a major shipping point for cattle and cotton after the arrival of the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway in 1898. A telephone exchange was installed in 1892, the First National Bank of Canyon opened in 1904, and the city was on its way. For a couple of years, between 1916 and 1918, legendary photographer Georgia O'Keeffe lived in Canyon, and is thought to have drawn inspiration for her distinctive southwestern style from nearby Palo Duro Canyon. The present work was published by Garrison, Harrison & Co., which maintained offices in Canyon City and Bellevue, Illinois, and is aimed at convincing Illinois residents to invest in farmland in Texas. The text boasts that "Canyon… Read More

Canyon City, Tx, 1907. Very good.. [32]pp. Profusely illustrated with monotone photographs. Slim quarto. Original wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, some darkening to edges and rear wrapper, light dust-soiling, tiny chip to lower corner of front wrapper. A rare land promotional touting the advantages of Canyon City, Texas (known now simply as Canyon). Established in 1887, Canyon City became a major shipping point for cattle and cotton after the arrival of the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway in 1898. A telephone exchange was installed in 1892, the First National Bank of Canyon opened in 1904, and the city was on its way. For a couple of years, between 1916 and 1918, legendary photographer Georgia O'Keeffe lived in Canyon, and is thought to have drawn inspiration for her distinctive southwestern style from nearby Palo Duro Canyon. The present work was published by Garrison, Harrison & Co., which maintained offices in Canyon City and Bellevue, Illinois, and is aimed at convincing Illinois residents… Read More

Cleveland: Winn & Judson, 1903. About very good.. 64pp. Original color printed wrappers. Light wear to wraps, spine chipping at foot. Light toning internally. An extensively detailed and well illustrated promotional for the Winter 1903 Gates Tour of Mexico with optional itineraries for the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, and California. A 1904 article in the National Magazine lauded Gates as a "world-renowned manager of Mexican tours," stating that no one should contemplate touring Mexico with anyone else. Traveling to Mexico by rail in proprietary rail cars, Gates provided full service tourism to all the most interesting and prominent locales in Mexico -- tourism, the American way. Participants traveled south from Chicago, through Texas and central Mexico to Mexico City, and returned to the United States by way of the Sonoran Desert and El Paso. Heavily illustrated with photographs and a map of the route, and with painstaking descriptions of travel amenities and the many sights and towns on the journey.

Philadelphia: W. Young, 1788. Good plus.. [4],120pp. Original calf, remnants of gilt leather label. Spine and corners moderately worn. Slightly later ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Light toning and scattered foxing to text. One of the earliest American imprints dealing with the measurement of casks and barrels. The work first explains basic principles of mathematics and geometry essential to the process, and in the following section presents problems and examples specific to determining the volume or size of vessel called for in a given situation. The final, lengthiest section prints an extensive selection of tables to assist in the exercise. The author, Benjamin Workman, was an Irish mathematician who immigrated to Pennsylvania in the mid 1780s to take up a professorship at the College of Philadelphia. He also published several works on mathematics and accounting, produced an annual almanac, and penned a series of Antifederalist essays against the ratification of the Constitution under the… Read More

New Orleans: December 26, 1862. Very good.. [1]p. Old folds, short closed edge tear, one repaired edge tear. A rare general order from the Department of the Gulf, issued by Major General Nathaniel Banks as he was taking over command of the Union's western forces in December 1862. This order, dated December 26, promulgates to the army a proclamation issued by Banks ten days earlier in which he announced that "I have assumed command of the Department of the Gulf, to which is added, by his special order, the State of Texas." His duty, Banks writes, is "to assist in the restoration of the Government of the United States:" and his "desire" is "to secure to the people of every class all the privileges of possession and enjoyment which are consistent with public safety." In other words, President Lincoln has sent General Banks to New Orleans to restore order and bring Louisiana under federal control. As Banks writes, in the course of his new duty, he has been tasked to "treat as enemies those who are… Read More

[New Orleans: ca. December 24, 1862. Very good.. [3]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor creasing, a couple of short closed edge tears, light fraying to bottom edge, three small tape repairs to inner fold. An extraordinary document issued by General Nathaniel Banks in New Orleans on Christmas Eve, 1862, in which he announces the intentions of the forthcoming Emancipation Proclamation, provides instructions to the people of Louisiana for its implementation, and prints the text of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation -- perhaps the first government printing of any part of the Emancipation Proclamation west of the Mississippi River, about a week before the issuance of the Final Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. General Nathaniel Banks arrived in New Orleans in mid-December 1862 to relieve the command of controversial General Benjamin Butler. One of his first official acts is encapsulated in the present document, in which he provides almost two pages of instructions and clarifications… Read More

San Francisco: George Spaulding & Co, 1893. About very good.. 90pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, a bit chipped. Light toning to first and last leaves. Minor scattered foxing. "This annotation of the General Street Law, as amended in 1889, 1891 and 1893, attempts only to clarify the text where that is not perfectly clear, or where the meaning has ben disputed, and has received judicial settlement." A work concerned with laws governing the maintenance, repair, grading, beautification, and laying out of streets and roadways in California. This cataloguer's favorite law contained herein is "An Act to provide for the planting, maintenance, and care of shade trees upon streets...and of hedges upon the lines thereof; also for the eradication of certain weeds within city limits." Scarce. Eight copies located in OCLC, all in California libraries.

[N.p., 1937. Very good.. [3],53pp., rectos only, including fifty-nine vernacular sepia-toned photographs measuring 2.5 x 3.5 inches and a few maps and manuscript diagrams. Typed self wrappers, brad-bound. Minor creasing and dust-soiling to wrappers. Clean internally. A profusely illustrated report, with a few hand-drawn diagrams and numerous manuscript emendations, focused on various U.S. Army installations in the American Southeast. The author, Major George H. Schumacher of the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps, visited several Army bases and other posts in Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia in the Spring of 1937. His report includes inspection details, notes on personnel, recommended repairs, and other information for each site he visited on his 3,065-mile tour, beginning with Fort Barrancas and Key West in Florida to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina, to Fort Bragg and Raleigh Cemetery in North Carolina, Fort McClellan in Alabama, and ending with a couple of bases in… Read More

Havana, 1855. Good.. Four volumes in one. xlxi,155; 272; 356; 200pp. 20th-century calf, spine gilt. Rear cover detached, spine ends chipped, corners and hinges rubbed. Text lightly tanned, a few pencil notations, minor wear. A detailed geographical survey of Cuba with an enormous amount of data on topography, water resources, minerals, soil, climate, and natural history -- the most comprehensive such work undertaken in Cuba to that time. The author, Esteban Pichardo y Tapia (1799-1879) was a noted geographer, poet, and lexicographer. His Diccionario Provincial de Voces Cubanas, a "dictionary of Cuban voices", went through multiple editions in his lifetime and is considered the most important Cuban lexicographic work of the 19th century. He is also considered to be the "father" of both Cuban cartography and lexicography, and spent several decades of his life working on his Carta Geo-Hidro-Topográfica de la Isla de Cuba (1874-1875), which was the definitive cartographical work on Cuba for nearly a… Read More

Montgomery: Department of Agriculture and Industries, 1904. Good plus.. Twenty-one panel illustrated folding promotional on recto, printed with a color county map of Alabama on verso. One tear along fold lines and minor separations at a few crossfolds, light toning. A seemingly-unrecorded Alabama promotional touting the advantages across the state for potential "home seekers and capitalists." The panels of text extoll the virtues of Alabama's geographical location, weather, natural resources, minerals, timber, agriculture, manufacturing, cotton, fruit, stock raising, public schools, and more. Several photographs illustrate the text, including a portrait of Alabama Governor William D. Jelks, Lieutenant and Acting Governor Russell M. Cunningham, Agricultural Commissioner R.R. Poole, and images of a "modern road," a scene on the Alabama River, a cattle pasture, sheep raising, a scene on an "Alabama Cotton Field," a "Typical Alabama Home," and the State Capitol building. The entirety of the verso is a… Read More

[N.p.]: American Library Association / Padgett & Walsh, 1985. Very good.. Two color-printed, photographically-illustrated posters, each 34 x 22 inches. Minor edge and surface wear, one poster with two small gouges at center of the image area. A vibrant pair. A pair of promotional posters advertising the American Library Association's 1985 campaign to "Get a head start at The Library." Each poster is emblazoned with that title. One of the posters features a young African-American girl sitting on the ground, reading a book titled, Making the Most of Your First Job while leaning against her lemonade stand. The caption at the bottom says simply, "Read." The credit along the left side of the poster notes the photograph was taken by Julie Melton. The second poster depicts champion boxer Sugar Ray Leonard reading Hansel and Gretel to his two sons, Ray, Jr. and Jarrell Leonard (the two small gouges in this poster occur in the area of Jarrell's hair). This photograph was taken by George de Vincent. The… Read More

[Chicago: W.H. Hall, 1895. Very good.. 24pp. Original embossed, illustrated wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and soiling. Internally clean. Promotional brochure for the Hotel Colorado and adjacent hot springs, with text, a small map, and many half-tone illustrations, including numerous exterior and interior views of the hotel facilities, the baths and vapor caves (priced at 25 cents to a dollar for various levels and combinations of care). Other amusements include the Music Room, Ball Room, Great Swimming Pool, Rides and Drives, Polo, Hunting & Fishing, Waterfalls, &c. Inspired by the Villa Medici in Rome, the Hotel Colorado contained 300 guest rooms and 100 private bathrooms, with an open fireplace in most rooms. The Hotel was designed by New York architects Boring, Tilton & Mellen, and built around natural hot springs along the rail lines of the Denver & Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland Railroad. The Hotel opened in 1893, and the testimonials at the back of this booklet are dated 1894. We locate… Read More

Mount Vernon: Warren C. Fisher, 1910. About very good.. [24]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor creasing and wear to wraps; two short closed tears and fore-edge of front wrap, repaired with tape. Some tanning and dust soiling. A scarce pictorial promotional for the small Iowa town of Mount Vernon, east of Cedar Rapids. A brief introductory text dubs the town, mainly known as the location of the small Cornell College and for its proximity to the Cedar River Palisades, the "city of verdure," and touts its "wealth of scenic effects." The work includes twenty-two reproductions of photographs depicting views of the town, college, and natural points of interest along the Cedar River as they were in 1910. We locate one other copy, at the University of Iowa.

Arizpe: November 24, 1834. Very good.. [4]pp., on a small bifolium. Untrimmed. Minor soiling and toning. Scarce 1834 decree of the Sonoran state government concerning the regulation of tobacco cultivation and sale. The first two articles read that the state legislature, "Se declara estancado por ahora el Tabaco en el Estado, y por consiguente como una renta propria y exclusiva de él.... En consecuencia niguno podrá cultivar este fruto sin expresa licencia adquirida en los terminos que detallará esta ley; y el que lo hicere incurrirà en el mismo hecho en todas las penas desiguadas para los contrabandistas comúnes." A further sixteen articles go on to delineate the process for obtaining licenses, the establishment of inspectorial and judicial positions for the administration of the industry, and other regulations affecting farmers and business owners. A scarce document of tobacco regulation in the northern desert province of Mexico; OCLC locates only one copy, at Berkeley.

Mexico City: November 17, 1847. About very good.. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.5 inches. Previously folded, two small tape repairs on blank verso. Small chip at upper left corner. Contemporary manuscript rubrics. Light toning and dust soiling. This scarce order was issued by the Archbishop of Mexico two months after the capture of Mexico City by the United States Army. It contains six articles that detail instructions for administering the last rites and orders for several other difficult matters in the occupied city. The extreme unction is to be performed secretly only in the mornings and at night, unless the physician believes it is not possible to wait, and further instructions are given on how to proceed secretly but properly with the ritual. The fifth article states that that if the American troops insult the residents, the clergy should try to restore calm, to obtain assistance from the local guards, and to inform the American garrison commanders. The final article states that parish… Read More

San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Co, 1918. Very good.. 32pp. Narrow folio. Original blue printed wrappers. A few small stains to front cover, minor wear. Ink stamp on first page, contemporary ink notations throughout. Rare directory for the Golconda Telephone & Power Company, possibly the only issue published. This Nevada directory covers exchanges for Winnemucca, Golconda, Battle Mountain, Paradise, Lovelock, and Rochester. A map at the start of the text shows the telephone network across several counties. There are also contemporary ads and directions for using the telephone. A contemporary user has annotated the directory rather extensively, correcting errors and adding names, as well as notations of "RR" scattered throughout. We locate a single copy of this issue at the Bancroft Library and no others elsewhere.

Dix Hills, N.Y. [i.e., Seattle, Wa.]: Fitzgerald Publishing Company, Inc. [i.e., Bill R. Baylor], 1983. Very good.. Sixteen issues, each [32]pp., all retaining illustrated front cover and bound together. Contemporary black cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Minor edge wear. Text of later issues occasionally trimmed close along fore edge. A complete run of all sixteen issues of the fraudulently pirated reprint of Golden Legacy, a series of comic books first produced in the 1960s and '70s by African-American accountant Bertram Fitzgerald and devoted to African American history. In 1983, Seattle Publisher Bill R. Baylor falsely claimed to have purchased reprint rights from Bertram Fitzgerald, and commissioned Fitzgerald's printer to produce additional copies of the series from the original printing plates and negatives. Fitzgerald sued Baylor, and after a five-year legal battle won back the publication. Baylor then disappeared without paying any of the damages assessed to him. Each issue… Read More

Davis, Ok: John W. Williams, 1910. Very good plus.. [14]pp. Narrow octavo. Original grey printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear; discrete ink stamp on rear cover and verso of title page. Internally clean. "Golden Thoughts" by "The Oklahoma Poet." This slim volume contains eight poems, most of them with a prayerful or religious theme. The most striking is a piece entitled "Murdered by Mama" wherein the author sees an angel child who tells a tragic story of having been murdered by her mother: "'My mama loved society;' / The baby sadly cried, / 'And I would but a burden be / So from a drug I died, / And all I might have ever been / Was thus to denied to me...'". The poem closes with the line, "For woman's curse, society." We find no copies in OCLC.