Search Results: Titles starting with V from McBride Rare Books

Valley Ranch, N.M., 1920. Near fine.. 31,[1]pp. Original brown pictorial printed wrappers, stapled. Very minor wear and soiling. Promotional work for the Valley Ranch, a dude ranch on the Pecos River, near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The work is illustrated throughout with handsome gravure illustrations, the whole printed in sepia ink. Situated in the midst of the Pecos National Forest, the ranch boasted extensive fishing and trail riding, as well as sweeping vistas. It also had a swimming pool, tennis courts, a post office, telephone and telegraph, and electricity. "The Valley Ranch has a well-earned reputation for setting a splendid table. The cooking is done by Americans, in American style, but the bill of fare often includes some appetizing Mexican dishes -- frijoles, tortillas, chili con carni, etc. -- for those of cosmopolitan tastes." A high-quality piece of printing and promotion. We locate four copies in OCLC, at Princeton, the University of Arizona, Arizona Historical, and New Mexico State University.

[New Orleans], 1864. Very good.. Broadside, 21 x 6 inches, on thin paper. Old folds, moderate toning, occasional small marginal chipping, tip of lower left corner chipped, light offsetting to itself while folded. A scarce Civil War-era broadside from Union-occupied New Orleans. The Varieties Theatre on Gravier Street in New Orleans was established by the Variete Association Theatre Club of New Orleans, a stockholder association of individuals committed to producing local theatre and who oversaw hiring a manager, building a repertory company, and attending performances. The Varieties Theatre was built and re-built three times between 1849 and 1871 at two different addresses in the Big Easy. The theater manager also changed during this time period. The present broadside advertises a performance of "A Great Moral Drama" called The Ticket of Leave Man. The play was a stage melodrama by the British writer Tom Taylor, and was based on a French drama titled, Le Retour de Melun. The English title takes its… Read More

[Ashland, 1900. Very good plus.. Thirteen silver gelatin photos, each 3.5 x 5.5 inches, mounted inside front cover and on six black paper leaves. Oblong octavo. Original card covers tied with ribbon, front cover with oval cutout. Ribbon mostly perished, minor wear to covers. Images clean and sharp. Lovely vernacular album with thirteen images of Ashland, Oregon, located in the southwestern corner of the state and the connecting point on the Southern Pacific Route between Portland and San Francisco, completed in 1887. The images, which are all part of a numbered series by an unidentified photographer, show scenes around the town in the early 1900s. There are several birds-eye views, as well as images of important local buildings and the rail lines. Someone has compiled them all into a charming vernacular album, with one image mounted in a cutout frame on the cover, and the others mounted one per page. A nice snapshot of the period. Images are as follows: "3598. Ashland, Oreg. looking toward… Read More

[Various locations in Hawaii, 1951. Very good.. [43] leaves, illustrated with approximately 235 photographs either mounted or placed in mounting corners, generally between 3 x 4.25 inches or slightly smaller and 6 x 9 inches. Some of the larger images are produced by photographic studios. Oblong quarto. Contemporary brown textured cloth with pictorial vignette titled "Aloha Hawaii" on front cover, string tied. Minor wear and dust-soiling. A few detached leaves but contents generally in excellent condition. An attractive vernacular photograph album recording the life and activities of the family and friends of Walter Shigeru Tanabe (1906-1958) and his wife Ethel Misao Tanabe (1913-?) in Hawaii following the Second World War. Both Walter and Ethel were born in Hawaii from first-generation Japanese families; Walter's father, Shotaro, was born in Japan but emigrated to the Hawaiian Territory in 1898 where he worked as a field clerk on a sugar plantation. Many of the photographs emanate from the 1940s… Read More

[Livermore, Ca, 1970. Very good.. Nine leaves, illustrated with 104 color photographs. Quarto. Contemporary self-stick photograph album spiral-bound in brown snakeskin patterned paper-covered boards with central design on front cover. Minor wear to covers. Images largely in vibrant condition. An eclectic collection of photographs featuring an unknown African American family and their friends in the 1970s. The men and women are captured here in striking '70s clothing and with most women sporting elegant afro-style haircuts. The subjects are pictured at a wedding, riding motorcycles, hanging out with friends both indoors and outside, on horseback, and more. One image of the sign for Springtown Public Golf Course in Livermore, California, plus the general appearance of most of the backgrounds in the photographs indicate the family lived in the American West.

[Various locations in Alaska, 1943. About very good.. 117 original photographs, measuring from 2.25 x 2.5 to 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto album with limp suede pictorial covers. Light chipping and wear at edges of covers and album leaves. Photos in corner mounts; minor dampstaining at margins of a few images; several photographs loose. With [8]pp. of "Memory Leaves" partially completed in manuscript at front of album. An excellent vernacular photograph album of nearly 120 original images compiled by Army veteran Raymond Cesena of Visalia, California, that depicts his experience in the military logging camps on Kodiak Island and surrounding smaller islands while World War II was still ongoing. Cesena had been serving overseas before being returned to the United States and sent to Alaska in 1942, where he and his colleagues at the logging sites and mill at Kodiak produced lumber for the construction needs of the U.S. Army during the war. The men lived in tent camps and lived a fairly hard-scrabble life… Read More

[Various places], 1930. Very good.. Ninety-nine photographs on fifty leaves, various sizes but many approximately 7 x 6 inches. Oblong octavo. Original brown covers, typed paper label; black paper leaves. Covers a bit worn, corners heavily so. Minor soiling to contents, a few photos with some light silver mirroring. Images each with typed captions in the negative. A handsome vernacular vacation album with images taken by a skilled photographer with a keen eye for composition and lighting. Each image has a typed caption printed in the negative, and most photos are one per page and quite large. The cover label indicates trips to Chicago, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, Tucson, and Phoenix over the course of three years. The album opens with several handsome panoramic shots of the Chicago skyline and Grant Park, before moving on to scenes of sand dunes at Virginia Beach. The remaining forty leaves, however, show images of New Orleans and the Southwest, all captured in artistic… Read More

[Various locations], 1915. Very good.. 288 original, sepia toned photographs, measuring 1.5 x 1.5 to 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Oblong large octavo album; photos affixed directly to album leaves, with manuscript captions in pencil. Occasional minor wear. An expansive photo album kept between the early 1900s and the 1920s of various trips in California, Alaska, and Mexico both touristic and military, many were taken by a sailor, probably from Napa, California, while cruising on the U.S.S. Saturn. Many of the photos not taken on shipboard show groups of people posing around 1920s model cars and their homes in Napa. The family is featured on beaches throughout California and various other locations in Napa including Napa State Hospital. One member of the family was involved with shipbuilding and was part of the crew and maintenance of multiple vessels including the U.S. S. Milwaukee and the U.S.S. Saturn. The latter was deployed to Mexico as a means of protecting the United States while Mexico was in the midst… Read More

[Various locations, including New York and Mexico, 1920. Very good.. [42] leaves, illustrated with 302 photographs between 1.25 x 1.25 inches and 5.25 x 3.25 inches. Oblong quarto. Contemporary limp green cloth photograph album. Spine mostly separated along rear joint, scuffed and word around edges. A handful of images slightly faded, some with minor wear. A small sticker on the front cover reads in manuscript, "Browns and Pritchards late 1800s early 1900s." A wide-ranging collection of personal photographs assembled at the turn of the 20th century by a member of the Brown-Pritchard family of Newburgh, New York. The first several pages are populated with homefront portraits of the family, with a few scattered manuscript captions providing the names of the subjects, namely Ethel Pritchard, Mary E. Pritchard, Alice Cashman, Uncle Arthur & Arthur Brown, Aunt Mary Brown, E.P. Brown, and so forth. About a third of the way into the album, the scene shifts to Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1911-12,… Read More

[Various locations in Texas, 1918. Very good.. Fifteen leaves, illustrated with fifty-five mounted photographs, and a few ephemeral clippings identifying locations. Oblong octavo. Contemporary black cloth, string-tied. Light soiling to covers. Minor wear to some photographs, but overall a handsome selection. A unique collection of vernacular photographs collected by a soldier in the 8th U.S. Cavalry identified simply as D. Watson, serving in southwest Texas during the Mexican Border War. The first two pictures emanate from Quartermaster Training Camp in Jacksonville, Florida. This is followed by one photo from Barron Field in Everman, Texas. The remaining photographs document Watson's time in Ruidosa, Texas, an unincorporated Texas-Mexico border town in Presidio County, about a hundred miles from Terlingua. Here, Watson includes photographs of himself and other soldiers and their horses posed in front of old stone structures, in orange groves, amongst canyons, in front of an automobile, and more,… Read More

[Various places, including Curaçao, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, 1939. Very good.. 110 original photographs, plus five commercial prints. Oblong octavo album, limp leatherette covers, string-tied at gutter. Light wear at edges of album and album leaves. Photos affixed directly to album leaves; manuscript captions throughout. A few fading or blurry shots, but mostly clear images. A well-kept vernacular travel album of well over 100 original photographs that document a 1939 cruise taken by a married couple from New York to Colombia. The Mennells left New York on June 9, 1939, aboard Grace Lines S.S. Santa Elena, and returned approximately three weeks later. Passengers lazed about the shipboard pool until they reached Curaçao, before travelling along the coast of Venezuela, and stopping at Baranquillo and Cartagena in Colombia. On their return voyage they stopped at the Atlantic coast of the Panama Canal and Jamaica. The album contains a series of interesting images from each locale, with street and… Read More

[Ohio, 1960. Good.. [18] leaves, illustrated with 123 photographs mounted at corners with cello tape, plus twenty-seven loose photographs. Contemporary tan scrapbook album, string tied. Many leaves detached, photographs occasionally worn but overall in nice shape. A wonderful collection of vernacular photographs documenting the rural family life of Lee and Anjelita Cuevas of Ohio following World War II. The photographs capture the Cuevas parents at work and play, the children at school, Lee and fellow servicemen posed outside a theater and participating in an American GI Forum, other shots of Lee posed in his military uniform, the family on their farm as well as swimming at a lake, and more. The attribution to Lee and Anjelita Cuevas emanates from the handwritten captions on a few of the photographs, inscribed to them. A recent online obituary from the Port Clinton News Herald notes that Librado "Lee" Cuevas passed away in January 2022 in Oak Harbor, Ohio. He was born in Alamo, Texas in 1925, and… Read More

[Mainly Vladivostok, 1922. Very good.. 261 images, about half real photo postcards and half vernacular photographs, between 2.5 x 1.5 inches and 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Oblong folio. Contemporary brown leather photograph album, string-tied. Lacking fore-edge flap, spine chipped, moderate rubbing and scuffing to boards. Minor occasional wear to photographs. A unique collection of photographs documenting the joint military expedition by Allied Forces into Vladivostok in southeastern Russia after the conclusion of World War I, the October Revolution, and the Russian Civil War, most likely assembled by an American soldier serving there at the time. The American contingent of the incursion was called the American Expeditionary Force, Siberia, which partnered with nine other countries to attempt to bring stability to the region, rescue 40,000 members of the Czechoslovakian Legion being held up by Bolsheviks outside Vladivostok, protect and retrieve American supplies in eastern Russia, and stem the early spread… Read More

[Various locations including Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico, 1920. Very good.. [40] leaves, illustrated with 256 black-and-white, sepia-toned images, cyanotypes, real photo postcards, cabinet cards, and other photographic formats, both studio-produced and vernacular, ranging from 1.75 x 2.75 inches to 8.5 x 6.5 inches, pasted in or mounted in corners, many with manuscript captions. Oblong quarto. Contemporary black cloth photograph album, string-tied. Modest edge wear and dust-soiling to the album. A few leaves detached, two leaves cut in half, one leaf partially torn costing part of a caption, minor wear to some photos, but overall a very nice group. A fascinating collection of photographs likely compiled by a soldier identified only as "Jack," possibly a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers between 1905 and 1920. Many of the images emanate from military camps in Texas and New Mexico during the time of the Mexican Revolution and the border war activities such as the Punitive Expedition, with… Read More

[Various locations in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Cuba, 1949. Very good.. [33] leaves, illustrated with forty-two original photographs, numerous photographic postcards, original letters and documents, newspaper and magazine extracts, and more. Oblong folio. Contemporary blindstamped limp leather, string tied. Minor rubbing to spine, light wear to covers. Plus ninety-five letters and documents, mostly typed, housed in a manila folder. A vernacular photograph album & scrapbook, plus a collection of letters and documents memorializing the foreign service career of Mary J. "Peggy" Jennings (1922-1995). Mary Jennings was born in Illinois but later moved to California with her family. She graduated from La Jolla High School in 1940 before attending college in San Diego and Arizona over the course of the next two years. She then worked various roles as a clerk and specialist for the American Foreign Service from 1942 to 1946. During her foreign service career, Jennings served at consulates and… Read More

[Various locations in South Dakota], 1904. About very good.. Twenty-seven silver gelatin photographs and six postcards on eighteen leaves; photos 4 x 5 inches. Small album. Original black cloth, manuscript label on cover. Light wear and soiling. Some images lightly faded; most captioned in ink. Postcards a bit worn and soiled. A short but interesting album of photographs documenting life on the rural South Dakota prairie in 1904. A later caption reveals a bit of the backstory for the album: "Edward Merritt and ranch in S.D. when he and Rev. E.C. Smith had a week's vacation, 1904. Carson's Ranch," and the first images in the album are of Carson's Ranch, located about eight miles from Bradley, South Dakota. Photos include shots of the house, the family, outbuildings, and agricultural work. One photo shows two wagons back to back on an open prairie, one of them stuck in a rut. Two mules stand patiently attached to the wagon in the foreground, and the caption reads, "Wagon with 80 bu wheat in the mire… Read More

[Various places, including Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Central America, & Greenland, 1928. Overall, very good.. 216 original photographs, plus approximately sixty commercial prints and photo postcards, with [14]pp. manuscript log tipped in. Most images measuring 2.5 x 4.25 or 3.5 x 5.75 inches. Oblong quarto album, limp leatherette covers, string-tied. Photographs in corner mounts, with manuscript captions on album leaves or in negatives. Some wear and scuffing to covers. A couple of photos removed or with tears and light wear. An interesting and extensive album of well over 200 original photographs and sixty commercial images that documents the tours of the USS Milwaukee during the mid-1920s, compiled by Edward Hoffman, one of its crew members. The ship was a light cruiser ordered by the U.S. Government during World War I and commissioned in 1923. The first part of this album records its "shakedown cruise" from San Francisco to Honolulu to Sydney, by way of Fiji and Samoa, arriving to Australia in… Read More

[Various locations in British Columbia and Alaska, 1900. Very good.. [14] leaves, illustrated with 111 vernacular sepia-toned photographs, between 2.5 x 4.5 inches and 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Mostly mounted four per page. Oblong folio. Contemporary black cloth, gilt, string tied. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Some edge chipping to a handful of album leaves, occasional dust-soiling. With [5]pp. typed and numbered list laid in, keyed to manuscript numbering beneath each photograph. A phenomenal collection of vernacular photographs taken by an unidentified traveler on a voyage to British Columbia and Alaska around the turn of the 20th century. Most of the photographs were taken from aboard a steamship or from a railroad car when they venture inland, but occasionally the compiler includes shots from the ground. The photographs begin with numerous scenic landscapes in and around Nelson, Rossland, and Victoria, British Columbia, picturing landmarks such as Kootenay Lake, Bonnington Falls, the Cascade Mountains,… Read More

[Elk City, Ok., and various locations in California, 1919. Good plus.. [46] leaves, illustrated with 103 photographs, mostly black and white or sepia-toned, but also including twelve cyanotypes and some photo postcards, almost all mounted but with a few detached or loose, measuring between 1.25 x 1.25 and 7 x 5 inches. A handful with manuscript annotations, and some manuscript text on verso of detached photographs. Oblong small octavo. Contemporary patterned faux-alligator skin gray paper over boards. Moderate scuffing to edges, some rubbing to boards, spine a bit frayed and torn. Front hinge and a couple of leaves detached. Minor occasional wear to photos. A rare photographic record of the life of a family living on the frontier in Elk City, Oklahoma during the first two decades of the 20th century. The majority of the photographs depict the Harris family and their friends on the homestead in rural Oklahoma, with numerous portraits of children and babies, some of children at play or perched atop… Read More

[Various locations, 1970. Good plus.. [48] leaves, illustrated with 260 mounted photographs, most black-and-white but some in color, between 1.5 x 1.5 to 8 x 10 inches, and a few ephemeral items. Full brown pebbled leather photograph album, screw-bound. Moderate edge wear and some chipping, front joint split but holding. First leaf detached, moderate wear throughout. An absorbing collection of vernacular photographs documenting multiple generations of the Piper family, an African-American family from New York City. This family album captures Piper family members from babies to grandparents over the course of about forty years. Numerous images show family and friends, with the men posed in fine suits and fedoras, and the women in dresses and gloves. Several pictures feature African American men in military uniforms, both Army and Navy, including an image of a World War II soldier signed "Sincerely Kenny 1942." There are also numerous shots of the family hamming it up for the camera in various houses… Read More