Search Results: Titles starting with K from McBride Rare Books

Leavenworth: Hathaway & Smith, 1860. Good.. Broadside, 11.5 x 8 inches. Some wear and chipping at edges, some loss at lower edge, a few small tears. Two small tape repairs on verso. Minor foxing. Apparently unrecorded and ephemeral broadside claiming to be a newspaper, but just as probably a strange advertisement for Thompson's Prescription and Family Medicine Store in Leavenworth. The masthead says that the paper is "Published Frequently" by Robert Bonnett and C.J. Benner for the price of two bits a year. "The principal grip of this paper is Quack Nostrums. In Politics we are in for the side that pays most money. Railroad matters will be fluently discussed, and Free Passes will be expected in return for said discussions. The editor proposes to deliver Lyceum Lectures through this State, for the benefit of woman's rights, -- subject, "Quack Nostrums and Coal Oil." Fully half the paper is an ad for Thompson's, however, advertising "Non-Quack Nostrum Coal Oil" and other similarly snarky items.

Lincoln, Nb, 1890. Very good.. Large broadsheet, 28 x 9 inches. Printed in red on recto, blue on verso. Old folds, minor wear. Large broadsheet advertising immigration to Kansas. The agent, W.J. Ratcliff of Atwood, Kansas, encourages the reader to "Write today, describing as nearly as possible what you want and where you prefer it. You will hear from me and I will convince you that I have some exceptional bargains in Kansas realty." Specifically, the bargains are to be had in Rawlins County, located in the northwest corner of the state on the Nebraska border. The broadsheet lists all the reasons Rawlins is the absolute best, summarizing: "The Best Watered, Best Timbered, Best Improved, and Most Productive County in the West." A handsome production. We locate two copies in OCLC, at Yale and SMU.

[Fort McNair, D.C.: Engineer Reproduction Plant, 1933. About very good.. Blue line map, 31.5 x 35 inches. Folded. Even, moderate tanning to right half of map. Minor loss at lower right corner where previously posted, slightly affecting map area. Minor wear at edges and along folds. A few contemporary ink manuscript annotations. A fascinating and scarce overview map, that delineates the status of surveying map work by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other government survey bodies in the southwestern United States, especially Texas, by the early 1930s. The map depicts the Eighth Corps Area, which covered Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southeastern Utah, Colorado, and Oklahoma, and is platted according to the Harriman Geographic Index System. Despite the sizable region covered, the map provides a significant amount of detail concerning the areas where surveying work was complete, the places where it was underway, the extent of work undertaken, dates of the surveys, responsible agencies, and more. The… Read More

New York: The Daily Worker, 1948. Near fine.. 16pp. Illustrated. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Mild toning and light wear. A scarce account of the events surrounding the death of William Milton, described as "a useful, hard-working, law-abiding citizen...a devoted husband and loving father...sympathetic to his neighbors' problems...what people call a good man" who was also "a Negro and so marked out for that special torture that American society visits upon men and women who are colored." On July 14, 1948, Milton was killed by Brooklyn Patrolman Peter Kilcommons in the hallway of his own building. Milton and three friends ran from police after being thrown out of a Williamsburg bar by a racist bartender named Charles Kennefick who "didn't want Negroes around." Kilcommons chased Milton to his front door, then shot him once in the back and twice in the chest in front of about ten witnesses, including Milton's wife Irene and their son, Eugene Milton. Eugene describes the incident in a… Read More

Indianapolis: McCormick & Co, 1892. Very good.. 47pp. plus frontispiece portrait. 12mo. Original cream printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, contents clean. Institutional ink and perforation stamp on title page. Poetry written by this Indiana author while at Heidelberg University in Germany. Cuppy went on to be an author and editor, working at the Chicago University Press among other establishments. Most notably herein, section two of the work is "In Dialect," with six poems featured in a rural Hoosier dialect, most of which seem to discuss the seasonal weather. One piece, titled "Winter" reads: "'Long this winter, I hain't been doin' much / But jes piddle' round, chop wood an' feed. / I made Tom Markham's boy a krutch, / An' a sled for Marg'ret Reed. / I've done my chores around the house, / Mended up my geers, sharpened my tools, / Fixed traps to ketch a rat er mouse, / An' sheared my naber's mules." We locate five copies in OCLC -- Brown University, Library of Congress, Yale, Indiana State… Read More

[Various locations in the American West], 1922. Very good.. Seventeen leaves, illustrated with ninety-one photographs and four souvenir postcards, extensively annotated in white ink on the album pages throughout. Contemporary tan two-ring cardboard wrappers, front wrapper with black sheet laid down, titles handwritten in white ink. Minor soiling, rubbing, and edge wear to boards. Minor fraying to some album leaves. A delightful homemade annotated vernacular photograph album compiled by D.S. Alexander, memorializing his journey by automobile, train, and steamship through the American West and down the Pacific coast in August 1922. The album opens with a manuscript title page indicating the locations Alexander visited, which included Manitou Peak, Denver, and Estes Park in Colorado; Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Desert in Utah; and several locations in California, namely San Francisco, Long Beach, Hanford, San Joaquin Valley, and Sacramento. Manitou is the first location pictured, followed by an… Read More