[Hampton: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1900]. 12pp. Original printed light green wrappers, stapled. Split to bottom half of spine, two small dampstains to wrappers, minor edge wear, small chip to lower corner of rear wrapper. Internally clean. Good plus. A scarce address delivered by C.P. Huntington at the Hampton.....
Boston: October 6, 1848. [4]pp. (paginated [157]-160), printed in six columns on a single folded folio sheet of newsprint. Old folds, minor wear and light scuffing to edges, small closed tear in third column of first leaf, minor staining. Small pencil notation in top margin reading, "Lucretia Mott." Overall about.....
[Various locations in Maryland and Delaware: roughly 1867-1905]. Autobiography: [1],1a,34,[1]pp. typescript carbon on yellow paper, marked "COPY" at head of first page. Two pages with long corrected sections stapled to original leaves, occasional emendations in type. Minor edge wear. Very good. Family Bible: various paginations, plus numerous plates, and with.....
Washington, DC: Austin Jenkins Co., Manufacturing Publishers of High Grade Subscription Books, 1920. Irregularly paginated with a selection of the published text, along with numerous plates and unused subscription leaves at the end of the text. Original blue cloth decoratively stamped in red, grey, and black on the front cover.....
[New York and Memphis: Black and White Company, ca. 1940s]. 28pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Minor toning, light soiling to wrappers. A rare pamphlet promoting the beauty products of the Black and White Company. According to the introductory text: "'Dreams Come True' is presented for your entertainment and pleasure by.....
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, [1936]. 8pp. Original printed self wrappers, 8 x 5 inches, printed as a ten-panel, fold-out booklet. Moderate staining and soiling, minor edge wear, short closed tear to bottom edge throughout. Good plus. A scarce pamphlet published to educate the attendees of the 1936 Texas Centennial.....
New Haven: October 31, 1927. Photographically-iIlustrated broadside, 16 x 19 inches. Moderate edge wear, a few short, closed edge tears. An advertising broadside for the Illustrated Current News of New Haven, Connecticut, featuring the infamous Muse Brothers of Roanoke, Virginia. In the early-20th century, George and Willie Muse disappeared from.....
Sacramento: 1922. 12pp. Minor toning and handling wear. Very good. A scarce twelve-panel brochure, based on a piece originally published in The Sacramento Bee on December 18, 1922. The author, V.S. McClatchy argues that Japanese-language schools in California and Hawaii were set up to foster a separate Japanese identity and that the.....
Salem, Or. [ca. 1919]. [90]pp. Oblong octavo. Original illustrated tan wrappers printed in darker tan. Moderate edge wear and minor toning to wrappers. Occasional minor foxing or thumb-soiling to text. Overall very good condition. A very rare promotional pamphlet illustrating the opportunities awaiting Native American youth at the Salem Indian.....
[Fort Thompson, SD: ca. 1920s]. Albumen photograph, 7.5 x 9.75 inches on a slightly larger plain mount, manuscript title at bottom right, "Fort Tompson [sic] S.D. Indian School." Some staining, surface wear, and edge wear, bottom left corner a bit chipped, mount worn at corners. Notations in marker and pen.....
Seminole, Ok. News Print, 1911. [42]pp. Oblong thin quarto. Original printed wrappers, tan paper backstrip, with oval die-cut on front wrapper revealing a view of the "Seminole School Building" on the first page. Minor soiling to wrappers. Faint stain to outer margin throughout, small chip to outer margin of last.....
Oklahoma: 1911. Three documents (two printed broadsides and one typed letter): 12 x 6; 11 x 8.5; and 12 x 8.5 inches. Folded, with slight scuffing to some edges; one with notes in pencil. Otherwise excellent. Three documents concerning the United States government's auction of appropriated Indigenous land in Oklahoma.....
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Salem, Ma: Upton & Frisbee, [ca. 1900]. Albumen photocollage, 4 x 5.5 inches, on a slightly larger printed studio mount. Minor surface wear and toning. Very good. A wonderful relic of the continuing fascination with the Salem Witch Trials, featuring four views of Salem's "Witch House" in a photocollage format.....
[Cuba: 1873]. Twelve manuscript documents on folio sheets, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches, all with official rubber-stamped seal. Small pinholes along left margin, light wear, occasional chipping to edges, some ink bleed and light damp staining. Overall, very good. A collection of documents recording the liberation, or attempted liberation, of.....
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Paramaribo, Suriname: C. Kersten & Co., [ca. 1895]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit chipped and soiled, both detached. First text leaf detached, text toned. An apparently unrecorded children's primer translated into Sranan Tongo, the Creole lingua franca of Suriname. Structurally based on English with significant Dutch vocabulary and.....
[Boston]: Hooton's Press, 1851. Broadside, 20.25 x 8.5 inches. Two horizontal folds, some chipping around edges with no loss of text, minor dust-soiling. Good plus. A striking broadside advertising the final 1851 performance in Boston by famed actress Charlotte Cushman performing the lead role of La Tisbe in The Actress.....