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Kansas City, Mo: Franklin Hudson Publishing Co, 1914. Very good -. 6¾" x 4 5/8". Red cloth. pp. 81. Very good minus: moderate wear and soiling to boards, small owner stamp to all four endpapers as well as eleven pages in the text; textblock split but holding b/t pages 50/51; heavy dampstain in margin of last few leaves; faint dampstain in upper margin of most leaves. This is an uplift book by a little known African American lawyer and activist whose work involved the founding of a short-lived movement in Kansas, as well as being an officer of an activist organization in California. Most of what we know of Roscoe Wassom comes from contemporary newspaper accounts: he graduated from Austin High School in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1901 and as of 1904 he was the watchboy for an all-Black team of firemen in Kansas City. In 1909 he was the keynote speaker at an Emancipation Day celebration in Paola, Kansas. We know Wassom attended the University of Kansas School of Law and according to a 1911 article in… Read More

(Hot Springs, Arkansas?): N.P., 1945. Fourth edition stated. Good +. 6¾" x 4¾". Stapled thin card wrappers. pp. 91, [4] + laid in leaf containing correct text for page 20. Good plus: wrappers moderately worn and dust soiled, occasional light staining and/or toning to text; one bifolium detached. This is a ritual book for the Heroines of Jericho, presumably issued for Arkansas chapters. It contains step by step instructions and ceremonies on how to open a new court, how to enter a court, how to confer degrees, burial ceremonies for members, and much more. There's also a photographic portrait of the author, John L. Webb, and several illustrations including the design of regalia aprons. While the book contains no statements regarding publication, OCLC locates a copy of the third edition with the same pagination and with an attribution of place of Hot Springs, hence ours above. OCLC locates no copies of this edition. This item is offered by Langdon Manor Books, LLC, antiquarian booksellers. We… Read More

Texas: Russel M. White, 1947. Very good. 8 7/8" x 3 7/8", folded; opens to 17¾" x 23½"; printed both sides. Very good: light edge wear with a few tiny chips, a few minuscule separations at folds, light dust soiling, and small holes at each intersection. This map/guide to the lower Rio Grande valley is a sensory overload of business, city, street and highway names splashed across 15 separate inset maps in bold explosions of vivid blue and orange. The largest map, which stretches across the entire sheet, shows the region generally along state highways 77, 83 and 281. Each town name is printed in blue inside an orange box. That map is surrounded by inset maps where each town has its name printed in thick orange letters outlined in blue, with the other inset maps on the leaf's other side. The cities and towns represented are: McAllen, Raymondville, Harlingen, Rio Grande City, San Benito, Mission, San Juan, Donna, Weslaco, Mercedes, Edinburg, Pharr, Brownsville, Reynosa, and Matamoros. Several… Read More