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

[Mexico or New York, 1869. Good.. Large broadsheet, approximately 23x18.5 inches. Folded, with three-inch separation along horizontal fold from edge. Small, contemporary ink stamp in upper corner. A few small chips and short tears at edges. Scattered staining, even tanning. An unrecorded bilingual broadsheet announcement of a railroad grant to construct a line across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec from Coatzecoalcos on the Gulf of Mexico to the port of La Ventosa on the Pacific Ocean, issued to Simon Stevens and Don Emilio La Sère by the Juarez government during the late 1860s. Simon Stevens was the nephew of abolitionist and prominent Republican Thaddeus Stevens, and he attempted to enlist the favor of Washington politicians up to and including President Grant for the effort at a time when the Transcontinental Railroad was nearing completion and American enthusiasm for railroad building was at a fever pitch. Nevertheless, the transisthmian project, as with several others of the era, was a failure, and… Read More

[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

[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.

Hartford, Ct: A.D. Worthington & Co, 1875. Very good.. Irregularly paginated, with numerous plates. Original green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor wear and rubbing. Might occasional foxing and toning. A rare salesman's sample book for an 1875 Hartford edition of the "only authentic exposé ever given to the world by a real Mormon woman." The finished book describes the fall-out the author had with the Mormon Church and her evidently deplorable living conditions; she also criticizes the leadership of Brigham Young. The author was one of the wives of a Mormon elder for twenty years before becoming disaffected with the Church in the early 1870s. The work was first published in 1872 in New York as Exposé of Polygamy in Utah: A Lady's Life Among the Mormons. A Record of Personal Experience as One of the Wives of a Mormon Elder During a Period of More Than Twenty Years. The text of the present salesman's dummy begins with a one-page Preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe, followed by the author's… 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

Sao Paulo: Tenrikyo Brazil Mission, 1958. Very good.. [52],16,[2],511pp., including [32]pp. of photographically-illustrated plates. Original orange cloth, gilt spine titles, housed in original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear, internally clean. Some chipping and toning to slipcase. An unrecorded history of the Japanese immigrant Tenrikyo Mission in Brazil, providing valuable information on many Tenrikyo churches across the country. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki, and spread to Hawaii, Brazil, and other regions where Japanese immigrants moved over the course of the first few decades of the 20th century. The photographic plates contain portraits of some mission members, views of churches, scenes from church life, and more. The text is almost wholly in Japanese save for occasional listings of Spanish names and other information. Not reported in OCLC.

Honolulu: Tenrikyo Hawaii Mission, 1957. Very good.. 16,[32],365pp. including [32]pp. of photographically-illustrated plates, errata slip laid in. Original orange cloth, gilt spine titles, housed on the original cardboard slipcase with black spine lettering. Very minor wear to boards, internally clean. Small puncture and some wear to spine of slipcase. A rare history of the Tenrikyo Mission in Hawaii, beginning with the founding of its first church in Honolulu in 1929. Tenrikyo was a new Japanese religion founded in the 19th century in Japan by Nakayama Miki. The present work also includes information on many other churches on the islands, including the Hilo Church, Kauai Church, the Maui Church, and more. The photographic plates contain portraits of some mission members, views of churches, scenes from church life, and more. The text is mostly in Japanese save for a fifteen-page section printing a series of English-language lectures on the Tenrikyo religion by members of the Hawaiian mission. OCLC… 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.

Dallas, 1879. Good plus.. [33]-48pp., as issued, approximately 16.5 x 11.5 inches. Profusely illustrated, including elaborate masthead with engraved map of Texas. Original newsprint self wrappers, folded. Some small edge tears, old folds, unobtrusive marginal chipping and fraying to spine and fore-edge, minor occasional foxing. Contemporary purple ink stamp belonging to land agent F.E. Roesler of St. Louis on front cover. An unrecorded periodical promotional for North Texas printed in Dallas in 1879. This issue is numbered three of an undetermined series of similar promotions encouraging immigration to Texas in the late-19th century, supposedly in a quantity of 30,000 copies, though that number is likely an editorial exaggeration. An editor's note on the second page advertises the first volume of the promotional, containing the first three issues, and mentioning an erratum in the second issue which was focused on Fort Worth (though no further details are provided on the content of the first issue).… Read More

[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