Search Results: Titles starting with N from McBride Rare Books

New York: NAACP, 1949. About very good.. Broadside, 11 x 8.5 inches. Old folds, short separations of crossfolds, minor toning. An offprint of an article printed in The Crisis, discussing the "old phrases," "name-calling," "angled 'news' stories," "half-truths" and "whole lies" being printed by the Communist Party in their mouthpiece, The Daily Worker. The object of this public attack, according to the NAACP, is to "discredit NAACP leadership", "tear the Association apart" and "take it over." This public fight between the NAACP and the Communist Party came in the midst of the Red Menace panic, and just two years after the initial hearings by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Previously, the two organizations had occasionally though somewhat uneasily worked together, most notably in the defense of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama in the 1930s. Eventually the two groups split along ideological lines, as the NAACP attempted to work within the democratic system to ensure reforms and the… Read More

Tokyo: Kaigai Kogyo, 1931. Very good.. 2,84,[1]pp., plus [16] pages of halftone photographs, three attractive color maps, a two-page folding halftone photographic collage, and a folding printed table. Original textured wrappers printed in black and red. Minor edge wear, some rubbing, spine a bit chipped. Light occasional foxing to text. First edition of a rare and profusely illustrated work on Japanese travel to Brazil during a robust time for Japanese emigration to South America in the early 1930s. In fact, the work acts as an immigration promotional, with the first three chapters focused on the history of Brazil, life on a coffee farm, and the possibility of becoming a landowner in one of the Japanese colonies in Brazil. The fourth and final chapter is a travel guide, offering advice on qualifications for travel, the cost of the trip, the experience aboard ship, and more. The text is greatly enhanced by forty-seven halftone photographs printed on sixteen preliminary pages and a two-page folding… Read More

Tokyo: Nihon Rikkokai, 1942. Very good.. [1],[3],[7],26,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers printed in blue and brown. Moderate foxing and soiling, minor edge wear to wrappers, some scuffing and minor losses to front wrapper. Text somewhat foxed and evenly toned, reflecting wartime book production standards. A very rare work encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the Pacific regions now controlled by the Empire of Japan after the outbreak of World War II, namely Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. There is even one short chapter describing Hawaii, though that was certainly wishful thinking at the time. The book adopts contemporary imperial Japanese expansionist rhetoric, referring in the introduction to Japan's "great global mission...to guide and educate the world's 1.2 billion human beings." The work includes chapters on preparing for overseas travel, etiquette, immigrant hygiene, overseas child education, information on the military, and more. Following the main text is a… Read More

Alton: Published by George Holton, 1838. Very good plus.. 159pp. 12mo. Publisher's brown cloth, copper spine titles. Very minor shelf wear. Small ink notations to front endpapers, minor foxing. An especially nice copy of the first edition of the story of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy, the first abolitionist martyr of the 19th century America, written by the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Beecher, like all of his family, was a passionate opponent of slavery. He was president of Illinois College at the time his friend Reverend Lovejoy, who had been publishing anti-slavery tracts in Illinois, was killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton on November 7, 1837. Lovejoy, as editor of the Observer, an anti-slavery journal, had moved his press from St. Louis to Alton, Illinois in July 1836 due to repeated threats. His office was attacked three times in the following year; he was setting up again when the press was attacked by a mob and a riot occurred. At what appeared to be a withdrawal by the mob Lovejoy opened… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Buell & Blanchard, 1858. Good.. Twelve issues, each 4pp., printed in seven columns. Large folio. Old folds, varying levels of chipping, fold separations, foxing, and edge wear. Occasional minor loss of text from wear at crossfolds and in one case a tobacco burn. Some issues with ink notations at top left or in the top margin. A dozen issues, published over the course of a decade in the mid-19th century, of the abolitionist newspaper The National Era, edited by Gamaliel Bailey and John Greenleaf Whittier. The National Era was an important source of news and debate over the issue of slavery during its thirteen-year run, and continuously argued for the abolition of the peculiar institution until it ceased operations in February 1860. The most lasting legacy of the newspaper is its serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin in forty-one weekly installments between June 1851 and April 1852, the first appearance of the novel anywhere.  The present collection of issues includes number 81, 97,… Read More

Chicago: Geo. W. Rust & Co, 1872. Good.. Four issues. Vol. 1, No. 3 & 7; Vol. 3, No. 8 & 10. Some wear at spines and edges. One issue a bit gnawed at lower corner, slightly affecting text. Four early issues of this Chicago periodical dedicated to developments and issues in stock raising nationwide, with much content on Western ranching.

Omaha: Klopp & Bartlett Co, 1903. Very good.. 44pp. Original red cloth, cover stamped in black. Corners lightly rubbed. Text lightly toned, last few leaves with lower corner rumpled. A series of eighteen diagrams illustrating the ceremonial movements for initiation into the Degree of Honor lodges in Nebraska. The Degree of Honor was initially organized in 1873 as the female auxiliary of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, eventually splintering off into a separate entity in 1910. After a few introductory words from the author, the work consists of eighteen diagrams with facing explanatory text, delineating the movements and meanings for each phase of the initiation ceremony. Presumably issued in a small number, we find no copies of this work in OCLC.

[Oakland]: Voice Publishing Company, 1946. About very good.. 140pp. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Some creasing and light chipping to wrappers. Internally clean. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with the subtitle reading "A book discussing the problems of unity and co-operation among American Negroes in those matters concerning their betterment." Barrett's work includes chapters such as "The meaning of co-operation and unity, racial and interracial," "The meaning of the word Negro, and why I use it," "Some reasons why we are divided," "The influence of the Negro minister, and the Negro church in accelerating unity and co-operation among us," "Negro world unity," and "The solution of the problem of division among us." A portrait photograph of the author is printed on the page opposite the Introduction. OCLC reports only ten copies of this scarce work in institutions.

Nashville: State Department of Education, 1935. Very good.. 22pp. Original gray printed wrappers, stapled. Light discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing. Internally clean. A scarce state publication designed to guide teachers and librarians in segregated Tennessee in assembling a collection of works related to the African American experience. The Foreword reads, in part: "Teachers in the Colored Schools of Tennessee have felt a need for a list of books by and about the Negro which are especially adapted to the comprehension of the pupil.... Every Negro school in Tennessee should have in its library representative books on the literature of the race." The work was compiled by the Director of the Division of School Libraries, Martha Parks, and includes an Introduction by her. The listing of about 150 books is divided into two parts: "Books for the Elementary Grades" and "Books for High School." The latter section presents books by subject categories such as "General Reference," "Biography,"… Read More

Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co, 1935. Good plus.. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front panel. Modest wear to extremities and dust-soiling to cloth, rear hinge partially separated. Minor surface wear and edge wear to jacket, spine head chipped but not affecting spine text. A notable work of Texas African-American history by the state's trailblazing African-American historian. J. Mason Brewer was the first African-American member of the Texas Folklore Society and the first Black author elected to the Texas Institute of Letters. The present work is his second book of history, in which Brewer details the background of political participation by African American Texans from Reconstruction through the "Disenfranchisement of the Negro in Texas," and tracing the rise and fall of African… Read More

New York: The Alliance Publishing Co, 1900. Very good.. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina. Mebane prepared the work from a conference of white men who assembled in Alabama to discuss race relations at the turn of the 20th century. The conference attendees seemed to minimize African-American achievements, including declining illiteracy, growth in the number of Black professionals, and the increase in property ownership, and actually calls for a repeal of the 15th Amendment. Another of the more extreme suggestions at this conference, meant to deal with the "problem between the races," was deportation of African Americans, no matter the cost. Following the account of the conference are a selection of articles extracted from… Read More

San Francisco, 1944. Good plus.. 98pp. Original printed wrappers, stabled. Reproduced typescript. Light wear, some staining and soiling to wraps. Text moderately toned. A scarce and detailed sociological study that focuses on the 60,000 African Americans that migrated to San Francisco during World War II. The work considers many aspects of the rapidly growing Black community in the Bay Area, with chapter headings such as "Population," "The Negro Family Group in San Francisco," "Housing," "The School and Migrant Children, "Industry and Employment," and "Problems of Adjustment of the Negro Migrant Family." The study makes use of many statistical charts that are reproduced here. According to the title page, the report was, "A project, financed by a San Francisco citizen, administered by the YWCA, and carried out in connection with the Race Relations Program of the American Missionary Association, Dr. Charles S. Johnson, Director, and the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

[Minneapolis]: Governor's Interracial Commission of Minnesota, 1947. About very good.. 77pp. Original pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, upper inch of spine perished. Faint dampstaining to first and last few leaves, otherwise internally clean. One of a series of reports published by the government of Minnesota examining the role of various non-white ethnic groups in Minnesota society. The present work focuses on African Americans and housing, including survey data on the perceptions of white Minnesotans with regard to having black neighbors. "We cannot be satisfied that the housing situation has been relieved until the segregation and inferior housing of our Negro citizens has been corrected. Basic American principles are at stake in this question. ... [This report] shows that there is not absolute segregation and that the Negro's plight is not as bad as in many other states. But it also indicates that white citizens of Minnesota are guilty of prejudice in generally… Read More

Detroit: Wayne State University, 1944. Very good.. 8pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear. Internally clean. The first entry in a series of studies issued by Wayne State University in "Inter-Group Conflicts in Detroit." The studies were triggered by the June 1943 Detroit Race Riots, and intended to bring a greater understanding to the relationship between Jewish and African American communities in the city. The majority of the present pamphlet is comprised of twenty conclusions reached by the study, the first of which begins: "Jewish business does not have a monopoly on Hastings, Oakland or Warren. Negro business is increasingly important in all three areas." Another interesting conclusion reads: "The factor of mixed racial employees does not lead to conflict, but more often to friendly relationships." The Detroit branch of the NAACP was one of three sponsors of the study, along with the Jewish Community Council of Detroit and the Graduate School of Wayne… Read More

Fort Worth: Published for the Author, 1900. Very good.. 486,xxxvii,[1]pp. plus frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Text clean. A comprehensive work on the Texas angora goat industry, illustrated with numerous handsome halftones of various goats. With discussions on the goat's production for both hair and meat, as well as the spread of the industry across the United States.

Los Angeles, 1949. About very good.. [220],34,[16],934,[26],20pp., plus numerous additional interleaved advertisements on colored paper. Original red cloth, gilt printed. Covers rubbed, some wear and soiling. Minor soiling to contents. Scarce postwar directory for Japanese emigrants living across the Americas. The focus is California and the American West, but there are also dedicated sections for New York, Chicago, Canadian provinces, Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. The directory was published in 1949 by the Los Angeles Japanese newspaper Shin Nichibei but printed in "occupied Japan," according to the colophon information. The volume contains a massive, 220-page photographic advertising section for Japanese-owned businesses across the West, mostly in California, but with many in Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Hawaii, and the Pacific Northwest. These advertisements include portraits of the proprietors and their families, their places of business, and employees at work. Further printed and pictorial… Read More

Santa Fe: Territorial Bureau of Immigration, 1898. Good.. 47pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Front cover detached, chipped and with small tears; small tear to rear cover. Internally clean with very minor wear. Promotional bulletin published by the Bureau of Immigration for New Mexico, touting its fine climate for farming and stock raising. "Alfalfa is the principal crop raised, producing three to four cuttings each season, yielding three to five tons of hay. ... Wheat is largely raised, principally by the Mexicans. As it yields more than any other grain crop, it is used for feeding purposes quite largely." Other crops include sugar beets, apples, rye, and grapes; sheep and goats are the main stock. Includes a section for immigrants on how to obtain title to public lands. We locate two copies in OCLC, at New Mexico State University and Princeton.

[Deer Lodge, Mt.], 1889. Good.. Large broadsheet, 26 x 20.5 inches. Old folds. Separation at some folds with slight losses affecting several words in six lines of text. Light toning and soiling. A rare supplemental issue of the New Northwest printing the newly-passed Montana State Constitution. Montana held its constitutional convention in July and August of 1889, finally receiving admission to the Union in November that year. The state constitution printed here includes a thirty-one item Declaration of the Rights of the People of the State of Montana, which begins with a statement that "All political power is vested in and derived from the people...is founded on their will only and is instituted solely for the good of the whole." It also includes clauses about the right to bear arms; the right of all citizens whether alien or native to own property and mining rights; and addresses water rights in the state. The New North-west was published in Deer Lodge from 1869-1897 under the auspices of James… Read More

[New York, 1871. Good plus.. Folding pamphlet, 6 x 17 inches. Separated along one fold. A few later pencil annotations. Light wear and tanning. A scarce advertisement for bond investment in the Northern Pacific Railroad, issued in 1871 during the first great construction push on the line. Although the company was founded in 1865, ground was only broken on construction in 1870 after considerable backing by Jay Cooke. This pamphlet outlines the plans for the railroad to be built from St. Paul to Portland and Seattle, the prospects for passenger and freight business upon completion, and the extent of the land grants afforded the railroad by the federal government. The text goes on to describe the financial instruments on offer, their advantages over Treasury bonds (chiefly, a greater yield at 7-8% vs. 5-6%), and their security against the commercial and financial assets of the railroad as well as its land grants. With a map of the proposed route on the rearmost panel. A scarce call for investment in… Read More

Adrian, [Mi.]: Printed for the Author by A.W. Maddocks, 1843. About very good.. 216pp. Original cloth, stamped in blind. Spine sunned, light wear at corners and spine ends, small areas of discoloration to boards. Light scattered foxing. A scarce frontier Michigan imprint presenting a rather unique scientific philosophy. Brewster argues that there are three "creative" powers in the universe -- "Ponderable Matter," "Imponderable Matter," and "Mind." The first, consisting of substances that have no power to change themselves, is under control of the second, which consists forces such as electricity, magnetism, light, gravitation, and capillary attraction. All are controlled by the final creative power, "Mind." This dense and curious work was reprinted twice, in Joliet fifteen years later, and in Philadelphia over thirty years later, suggesting that Brewster's philosophical system enjoyed some enduring popularity. "A most unusual frontier imprint" - Eberstadt. AII Michigan 492. American Imprints… Read More