Chicago, Illinois: Prairie State Press, 1937. First Edition. 8 7/8” x 6¼”. Red cloth, title gilt. Pp. 148. Very good minus: a bit shaken, rear hinge partially cracked; frontis leaf torn and repaired with tape at an earlier date; a few small stains to ffep; lightly dust-soiled. Inscribed by the..... More

N.P. N.P., [circa 1922]. 7” x 4¾”. Stapled wrappers. Pp. 31 + author frontis. Very good: front wrapper with strip of moderate wear near spine; title page lightly creased; a few lines printed lightly; owner signature to front wrap. This is a fascinating memoir written by an enterprising..... More

McDowell County, West Virginia: North Fork District Schools, 1921. 11¼” x 7¾”. Thin card wrappers. Pp. [108]. Good: covers heavily worn, separated from textblock and partially detached from each other; two images affected by large orange stains; some pages with moderate soiling, primarily at edges; one line of text blacked..... More

Austin, Texas: Samuel Huston College, 1933. 13 7/8” x 10½”. Newsprint. Pp. [4]. Good: heavily creased at old folds with a few small tears at intersections, removing one word of text; 1.5” tear to front not affecting legibility; edge wear; spotted and toned. This is a rare issue..... More

Chicago: 1977-1979. 166 loose black and white photographs, all measuring 8” x 10”; none are captioned. Generally very good plus or better. This is a collection of photographs by an important Black photographer, Tony Rhoden, depicting several events in the career of then-Alderman Eugene Sawyer. Sawyer was initially..... More

Kelly Air Force Base, Texas: Base Photographic Laboratory, [circa 1953]-1955. Six black and white 8” x 10” photographs. Generally very good plus: a bit curled with light edge wear and scattered spotting. This is a group of fantastic photographs showing internal views of the general store at the Kelly..... More

Various places in the South Pacific: 1927. 6¼” x 8½”. Leather over flexible card with two-hole punched leaves, lacking original rivets and later string tied at the lower hole. 86 pages with 216 black and white photographs inserted into corner mounts + a hand-drawn line map; approximately 30 photos were..... More

N.P. N.P., 1950s? 8½” x 5¼”. Single sheet, text recto only. Very good with old folds. This is a rare copy of an antisemitic rant that never happened and was attributed to Benjamin Franklin, decrying the emigration of Jewish people to the United States. Allegedly transcribed..... More

N.P. [1931-1943]. 7” x 11¾”. Flexible faux leather post-bound album. 98 pages, the first 38 with 109 adhesive mounted photographs and rest of the pages are blank. Photos measure 3” x 4” and approximately three quarters are captioned. Album and contents near fine or better, a few photos a bit..... More

Various Places in Texas; Shreveport and New Orleans, Louisiana; Macon, Georgia: 1867-1880s. 6” x 4½”. Commercial album of full leather over heavy boards and adorned with brass clasps. Three preliminary leaves followed by 15 thick card windowed leaves, each with two photographs inserted (one each side), and another laid in..... More

[Washington, DC]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 5¼” x 4”. Stapled illustrated thin card wrappers. Pp. vi, 34. Very good: moderate wear and light creasing to wrappers and most leaves; tiny dogears to first few leaves; mild dust soiling and toning. This is a pamphlet containing “straight talk..... More

Augusta, GA: Chronicle Job Print, 1909. 8¾” x 5½”. Red cloth, title gilt. Pp. [author frontis], 276 + three page table of contents and 23 plates interspersed. About good: spine appears to be fully perished and crudely repaired with tape; endpapers crudely renewed; hinges cracked but holding; scrawled pencil notations..... More

[Scotlandville, Louisiana]: [Southern University], 1938. 7½” x 5¼”. Handbill. Good: moderately creased and soiled; manuscript notes on both sides. This is a handbill for a debate between Southern University (SU) and Alcorn A&M College, now known as Alcorn State University (ASU). One of the debaters, Viola Johnson, fought..... More