Search Results: Titles starting with T from McBride Rare Books

[Merida]: Imprenta Constitucionalista, 1910. Good.. Broadside, approximately 10.5x15 inches. Previously folded. Two short, internal tears, with no loss of text or image. Evenly tanned; faint tide line at left margin. Ephemeral, early 20th-century Mexican broadside for performances of a traveling theater troupe starring Spanish actress Prudencia Grifell at the Teatro Peon Contreras in Merida, Yucatan. The broadside lists members of the company and crew, the repertoire of plays to be performed (beginning with the comedy "Pipiola" by Spanish playwright Alvaro Quintero), ticket prices, and other relevant information. The advertisement is illustrated by photo portraits of Grifell and one of her fellow actors. Grifell began in the theater but went on to a long career in Mexican radio, film, and television following a self-imposed exile caused by the Spanish Civil War. She passed away in 1970 at the age of ninety-three, only a year after her final screen appearance. The Peon Contreras theater still stands… Read More

Mexico: D.J.M. Benavente y Socios, 1821. Very good.. 3pp., on a half-sheet bifolium. Minor wear at edges. Light tanning. A stinging satire of Santa Anna, questioning his loyalty to the cause of Mexican independence and laying bare his absence from many of the important events and accomplishments of the revolution. The pamphlet repeatedly thanks God and the heroes of the independence movement for its significant achievements and then compares them to the commitment of Santa Anna: "Gracias tambien al Héroe de Anahuac que termoló el pendon tan deseado; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No quiso jurar la Independencia.... Gracias tambien al Héroe Indiana que hizo desaparecer semejantes monstruous; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No ha entrado en la capitulacion.... Gracias á Dios que ahora si se dará la jusiticia á quien la tenga; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No tuvo parte en el Plan de Iguala.... Gracias tambien al digno Gefe del Ejército Trigarante que hizo brillar la luz alcabo de tantas tinieblas; pero ¿y D. Antonio? No… Read More

[San Francisco]: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1935. Very good.. 34,44,36pp. plus plate. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Later ink notation on front cover, pencil markings on final leaf. Text lightly but evenly toned. Telephone directory for Contra Costa County, California, divided into three sections. The first contains an alphabetical listing for phone numbers in the city of Richmond; the second is a classified directory; and the third lists phone numbers for locations in the county other than Richmond. The plate is an illustrated ad, printed on pink paper, for Wilson & Kratzer Mortuary. Includes instructions for using one's phone as well as a list of important numbers and telephone rates. Rare.

[Oklahoma City?]: Southwestern Bell Telephone Co, 1920. Very good.. [36]pp. Original printed card covers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, especially to lower corner. Small tape reinforcement to rear lower corner. Some minor foxing to contents. An early telephone directory for the little Oklahoma town of McAlester -- the largest town inside the Choctaw Nation -- published little more than a decade after Oklahoma statehood. The directory provides a single alphabetical listing of residences and businesses, noting address as well as phone number. Residences are denoted as such, and interestingly numbers outside of town are also indicated as "rural," with addresses such as "NW of city." With numerous advertisements for local businesses, including an ad for a local company bottling spring water (delightfully described as "absolutely sanitary"). We locate two serial records in OCLC, at the Mid-Continent Public Library in Missouri and at Stillwater Public Library in Kansas -- neither has any directories… Read More

Ouray, Co, 1892. Very good.. Ten mounted albumen photographs on cards 8 x 5 inches. Light wear and minor soiling. Some images captioned in ink on the mount, others in the negative; one attributed to Brumfield. Images generally clean and sharp. A group of ten images around Ouray, Colorado, presumed to be by Michael Brumfield, a photographer working there from 1892 to 1896. One image shows the town of Ouray taken from the hills above, mining tools artfully positioned in the foreground, the town appearing in a cleft between the mountains. This image is captioned in the negative, "Ouray Colo. by Brumfield." Four more are captioned in ink, while five others are captioned in the negative. The images are titled as follows: "Ouray, Colo. by Brumfield." "#35 Bridal Veil Falls Height 360 feet." "Blowout Cañon Ouray, Colo. #54" "#72 Uncapahgre [sic] Cañon, Ouray, Colo." "'Sneffels Bridge' Uncapahgre Cañon, Ouray, Colo." "Ouray, Colo. From Blowout Point" "Cureeanti Needle, Gunnison River [manuscript title]"… Read More

Elgin, Il, 1947. About very good.. Ten pamphlets. Old folds. Light dampstaining to one item, otherwise some toning and very minor wear. Interesting group of pamphlets detailing the pacific beliefs and service of conscientious objectors from the Brethren before and during World War II. The Brethren are now one of lesser known pacifist Christian sects, but during the war were in charge, along with the Mennonites and Quakers, of administering Civilian Public Service camps. Two of the pamphlets here provide accounts of such camps, one in Lagro, Indiana, and the other in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. A list of titles is as follows: 1) Brethren Service -- First Brethren Civilian Public Service Camp, Lagro, Ind. 2) The Brumbaugh Unit and Puerto Rico's Problems 3) Christian Patriotism: A Statement Outlined by Representatives of Brethren, Friends, Mennonites (two issues) 4) Counsel for Conscientious Objects Adopted by 1936 Annual Conference Church of Brethren 5) The Statement on Peace and War Adopted by the Church… Read More

[McAllen, Tx, 1920. Very good.. Ten original photographs, each 5 x 7 inches. Light wear at edges. Captioned in negative. Contemporary pencil initials on versos. A rare group of ten original photographs by early 20th-century Texas photographer John Peter Esklidsen, who worked in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1910s and 1920s. The photographs present here were produced by the Eskildsen Studio of McAllen, Texas, and showcase the booming Valley during the 1920s. They show bountiful fields of cabbage, alfalfa, and onions (and in one case, the African American laborers who made it all possible), a grapefruit tree bent to the ground under the weight of its abundant fruit, fields of grass-fed pigs and dairy cattle, a newly built farm house captioned "New Eden," and a major irrigation canal. The images are titled in the negatives as follows: 1. Grapefruit in the Dr. Kalbfleisch Orchard. 2. A Magic Valley Cabbage Field. 3. 100 Rhodes-Grass Raised Duroc-Jerseys in the Bruce Young Farm. San Juan Tex. 4.… Read More

Mexico City: A. Carranza y Cia, 1907. Good.. xviii,521,[1]pp. Contemporary pebbled cloth, morocco corners. Corners and spine ends worn; spine sunned; some staining and rubbing to boards. Large, contemporary binder's ticket on front pastedown. Light toning; light dampstaining at fore-edge of initial leaves. Scarce Mexican edition of Willis Alonzo Dewey's Practical Homoeopathic Therapeutics, first published in Philadelphia in 1901. Dewey was one of the most widely recognized practitioners and teachers of homeopathic medicine at the turn of the 20th century, and held positions at the medical schools of several reputable institutions, including the University of Michigan (he also hailed from Ann Arbor). The present work was the third of his major publications, and comprises an alphabetical list of treatments that begins with the prevention of miscarriages ("aborto") and ends with vomit inducers ("vomitos"). An interesting crossover of the craze for homeopathy in the United States to Mexico, but… Read More

Mexico City, 1883. Good plus.. xlvii pp. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Edges and spine ends somewhat worn. Contemporary ownership inscription and bookseller's ink stamp on title page; same owner's ink stamps on two leaves of text. Light tanning and foxing. Unusual printing, privately commissioned, of a late 19th-century thesis on the importance of eloquence by a university student, Agustin Verdugo, in the literature department. Interesting as an example of private, scholarly printing in Mexico during the 1880s, bordering on a fine press-like production. OCLC locates one other copy, at the BNM.

[Chicago], 1911. About very good.. 56pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and soiling, heavier to rear cover, a few chips and tears. Minor soiling to contents, printed on two different paper stocks. Promotional work in the guise of a periodical, featuring articles and numerous illustrations about northern Texas. One such article is entitled "A People Who Are Making Good," and features two pages of text and four photographs highlighting development in Memphis, Texas, in Hall County. Another article is titled "Progressive Amarillo," while another is simply called "Pictorial Panhandle" and features several pages of images depicting the region. It includes numerous ads for local businesses throughout, the back cover being devoted to G.A. Vawter of Dalhart, Texas, hawking real estate information: "Your future in Moore County is my future. ... We grow all the products that are grown in the north. The air is a cure for the sick and an inspiration for the healthy. ... Why stay on a… Read More

Dallas, 1878. Very good plus.. [49]-64pp. Folio. Gathered signatures of newsprint. Old central horizontal fold, old ink stain to upper margin of last few leaves. A very nice example. An interesting single issue of a short-lived Dallas monthly newspaper "Devoted to the Agricultural, Industrial, Immigration and Educational Interests of Texas." The publisher and editor of the work is listed as H.S. Hyatt, with the corresponding editor and solicitor named as S.H. Sayer. The newspaper is a thinly-veiled promotional for the advantages offered by Texas's cities, railways, climate, natural resources, agricultural conditions, and business environment. The first two pages are taken up with a lead article titled, "Why Come to Texas?" Other sections of the issue print a Dallas business directory, a city of Ennis business directory, an article on the lack of yellow fever in Texas, favorable provisions of the Texas state constitution attractive to emigrants and investors, and much more. The centerfold of the… Read More

Fort Worth: T.P. Martin, Jr. & Co, 1886. Very good.. Vol. 1, No. 1. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Light wear, a few small chips at edges. The first issue of this short-lived Texas periodical on stamps and stamp collecting, edited by B.G. Chaney. The feature article is titled "Advice of a Collector," which includes such practical advice as "beware lest you should undertake too much and your collection become a task instead of a pleasure." There is also an article on counterfeits which claims that the rate of disreputable dealers is on the rise, which will lead to disgust and discouragement among young collectors. The final two pages is comprised almost entirely of advertisements for stamp dealers and collecting agents. Rare and ephemeral -- we locate issues at the University of Texas at Austin and Dallas, and the British Library. None in auction records.

Waco: Texas Telephone Company, 1919. Good.. [4],132pp. Original tan printed wrappers, stapled. Covers worn and chipped, some annotation. Text lightly worn, several corners torn away, not affecting text. An unrecorded phone book for Waco, Texas, issued by the Texas Telephone Co. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in Waco, the Texas Telephone Company merged five smaller exchanges and served more than thirty cities and towns across Texas. The company was purchased by Southwestern Bell at the end of 1927. The volume provides an alphabetical directory of residences and businesses, with two leaves at the start of numbers arrived "Too Late to Classify." Each leaf has ads for local businesses. Likely used to death and discarded -- a rare survival from this important Texas company.

New York: Council of Negro Trade Unionists, 1948. Near fine.. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A rare leaflet issued by the Provisional Harlem Committee to Free Ferdinand C. Smith and the Council of Negro Trade Unionists. Ferdinand C. Smith, secretary of the National Maritime Union, was instrumental in promoting Black membership in the Negro Trade Unionists. Attorney General Tom C. Clark, originally from Texas, sought to deport Smith back to Jamaica because of his Communist affiliations and work for civil rights. OCLC reports just a single copy of this work, at the University of Kansas.

[Honolulu, 1943. Very good.. [6]pp., typed on carbon paper, with a few pencil annotations and corrections, stapled at corner. Some toning and creasing, edges a bit frayed, first leaf with only minor marginal chipping. Evidently a draft intended to be printed as a pamphlet or leaflet speaking out against the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The authors are not identified by name but refer to themselves simply as "citizens of the state of California" who "believe that most of the Japanese in our country are loyal; they believe that attempts at disenfranchisement and deportations of American citizens are essentially un-American and dangerous to the future peace and security of our nation...." The second page prints "General Observations of Evacuation of the Japanese" concluding among other things that "The fact that in a time of emergency this country is unable to distinguish between the loyalties of many thousands of its citizens and others domiciled here, whatever their race… Read More

Arrow Rock: Published by the Author, 1844. Very good.. 216pp. Later quarter calf and marbled boards, original leather spine label laid down. Minor foxing. An early Missouri imprint, and the first medical book published west of the Mississippi River. Noted as the revised edition, though no copies of any earlier editions are located. Sappington was a Missouri physician who was noted for having invented a quinine pill for the treatment of malarial fevers. This work was published in Sappington's hometown of Arrow Rock. Sabin 76909.

[N.p., 1930. Good.. Half-tone photographic image 33.75 x 8.25 inches in a narrow wooden frame. Light soiling and rumpling. Light wear to frame. Not examined out of frame. An unusual photographic advertisement for McCormick-Deering Cultivators showing a long line of cultivators at work in a field, the farm visible in the far distance. This series of cultivators is each pulled by a team of horses with a seated driver. The Pierce Ranch is still in business today, farming 32,000 acres in Matagorda County on the Texas Gulf Coast.

[Texas, 1901. Near fine.. Broadside, 7.25 x 8.5 inches. Text printed in two columns. Minor wear. Broadside advertising lands for sale in Pecos County, Texas. Four sections are offered, ranging from 5,200 acres to 18,560 acres, at a rate of 75 cents an acre. "The day is at hand when the cattleman must own his lands. ... These are all good grazing lands. Good water, in abundant supply, at shallow depth can be found on any of them. ... Lands are in good shape for fencing. ... If you let these opportunities pass, when ranges have all gone to high prices and are hard to control, never say you did not have an opportunity." Rare and ephemeral. One copy located in OCLC, at SMU.

[N.p., probably Portland, 1916. Near fine.. 36pp., plus two multi-panel folding panoramic photographic plates. Original tan wrappers printed in brown, accompanied by original printed mailing envelope reading, "A Souvenir of The Third Oregon Infantry on the Mexican Border." Very light wear. A scarce work featuring the officers, staff, and soldiers of the Third Oregon Infantry while stationed on the Mexican border near San Diego during the conflict with Mexico just before World War I. The work includes field and staff lists, rosters organized by company, and a list of "men who have enlisted at Clackamas since the Regiment left" in the summer of 1916. The work is profusely illustrated with photographs of each company within the text, usually on the recto facing the roster lists. Each inside cover includes a folding panoramic photographic plate - the first titled, "First Battalion at San Diego Exposition, July 9, 1916," and the second featuring the "Third Battalion on the Border - Mexico in the… Read More

[Various places in British Columbia & Alaska, 1922. Very good.. Fifteen real photo postcards. Light wear and soiling. Several with manuscript notations and/or postmarks on verso. A collection of real photo postcards depicting First Peoples and indigenous life in British Columbia, with two images depicting similar scenes in Alaska. Taken by various photographers over the course of several years, these images show native people in towns across the province. Identified locations include Radium, Kitwanga, Vernon, Prince Rupert, Victoria, and Alert Bay. Identified photographers include W.W. Wrathall (active in Prince Rupert in 1916); Henry Twidle (Granite Bay, 1922-1924); Trio (Victoria, 1914-1925); Vernon Photo Co. (Vernon, 1910-1920); Gowan-Sutton Co. (Vancouver, 1920-1925); and Elliott & Baglow (North Vancouver, 1907-1908). The Alaska photographs are attributed to Otto Schallerer, who was active in Seward and later Ketchikan in the 1920s. An unidentified photograph shows a group of ten Inuit -- two… Read More