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1890LIST110Havana: R. Testar 1890. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early 1898. The photographers Leach and Patterson of Calle San Rafael published several views of Cuba at this time mostly of bucolic scenes around Havana and its environs. The American cruiser is similar in design to the U.S.S. Maine with slight differences - two smokestacks instead of three. An excellent example with minor wear to mount and fine image. R. Testar unknown books
1898WRCAM54683Various places including Pennsylvania Virginia at sea New Jersey and Puerto Rico 1898. 171pp. with 342 photographs. Four large quarto photograph albums. Matching contemporary three-quarter crimson morocco and cloth front covers gilt. Minor shelf wear and some rubbing. Images in overall very good condition. An amazing assemblage of photographs documenting the Spanish-American War experiences of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry which was at that time the oldest volunteer military unit in continuous service to the United States. The photographs are arranged chronologically in four contemporary photo albums with the images occasionally annotated in a contemporary hand and including the identification of numerous members of the Troop. <br> <br> The first volume opens with images of Mt. Gretna Pennsylvania "where troops were sworn into U.S. service May 7th 1898 by Maj. Thompson U.S.A." The photographs record field exercises camp building and tent organization at Camp Hastings cavalry drills an image of "Capt. Groome reading the Articles of War to Troop June 1898" a "first arrival of government horses" several shots of men training and "throwing" their horses shooting practice "Capt. Groome assigning Government horses to Troopers" and various shots of the men at work and even some play. Over the course of the album the names of numerous soldiers are recorded below several of the photographs. <br> <br> The second album opens with several photographs of the Troop striking their tents in preparation for leaving Camp Hastings at Mt. Gretna headed for Camp Alger at Dunn Loring Virginia. Here the Troop was ordered to increase their enlistment numbers. At Camp Alger the Troop was also fitted out with federal supplies and assigned to the Second Army Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. William Graham who is pictured here. Other photographs capture the camp scene at Alger "the First Troop picket line" the Troop receiving their federal-issue khaki uniforms the Troop at roll call and some shots featuring African-American helpers. <br> <br> In late July the Troop was sent to Newport News and several photographs record their brief time there with about a dozen shots of their temporary camp. On July 28 1898 the Troop left Virginia on the transport ship MASSACHUSETTS bound for Puerto Rico. Several images here capture the frenetic loading of the troops and their horses onto the ship with the remaining half dozen or so shots recording the Troop's time on board. <br> <br> The third album picks up where the second left off with the First City Troop embarked on the transport ship MASSACHUSETTS headed for Guanica Puerto Rico. Shipboard activities captured here include a few shots of groups of men being showered with water hoses. Several shots record the arrival of the men in the port of Guanica where they encounter the hospital ship NUECES which reports of the news of the "surrender of Ponce." After the men disembark they pitch their camp around Cathedral Virgin del Carmen on August 5. The next day several photographs record the unloading of horses and stores in the harbor at Ponce. The remaining thirty-eight photographs in this volume record scenes in the interior of Puerto Rico and are the most heavily annotated of the four albums. The images record scenes from the "road from Port of Ponce to Ponce" several scenes capturing a market day in Ponce and recording numerous native islanders the Troop's "temporary camp about 2 miles beyond Ponce" the "Troop wagon leaving camp beyond Ponce to join wagon train for Guayama" on August 8 a shot of the Troop's wagon "on road to Guayama in a Porto Rico mudhole" images of the wagon train to Guayama with the H Troop 6th U.S. Cavalry the "Point of Advance Guard entering Guayama within the lines" the Troop itself "entering Guayama passing General Brooke's Headquarters" a "View of First Troop Phila. City Cavalry U.S.V. Camp at Arroyo August 10th to 6A.M. Aug. 13th 1898" with the last ten images recording the camp or the streets at Arroyo. <br> <br> The fourth album documents the Troop's voyage home to Philadelphia. This time they take passage on the transport ship MISSISSIPPI and about half of the images record their voyage on board. On Sept. 10 1898 they reach Jersey City in New York harbor where they camp for a short time before returning to camp in Pennsylvania where the album ends. A couple of months later all three officers and the ninety- eight enlisted men of the First City Troop were mustered out of federal service for the Spanish-American War. <br> <br> Originally founded in 1774 by twenty-eight Philadelphia patriots as the "Light Horse of the City of Philadelphia" the First Troop of Philadelphia Cavalry is the oldest mounted military unit operating in continuous service to the American republic being the first volunteer cavalry troop organized in defense of the colonies. Among the Troop's original founders was John Dunlap printer to Congress from 1778 to 1789 publisher of the first American daily newspaper and the first printer of the Declaration of Independence. Most of the earliest members were similarly notable professional men of Philadelphia. The Troop served with valor in the American Revolution the War of 1812 the Mexican- American War the Civil War the Spanish- American War and every major American war through the Korean War. <br> <br> The present albums present a unique and important visual record of the First City Troop's activities before during and on the way home from the Spanish-American War. hardcover books
1981240713London: Amnesty International British Section 1981. 39p. 5.75x8.25 inches introduction photo lightly-worn poetry chapbook in stapled black pictorial wraps. Dorfman's poems on The Disappeared in Chile. Amnesty International British Section unknown books
1898WRCAM5606Washington 1898. 293pp. plus photos and two folding charts. Printed wrappers. Slightly dampstained. Good. The full testimony heard before the court of inquiry is included with nineteen photos of the wreckage and two charts of the keel of the Maine. The court found that the damage "could have been produced only by the explosion of a mine situated under the bottom of the ship" and that no officers or crew members were negligent in their duties. unknown books
1820WRCAM21881Washington 1820. 8; 4pp. plus twenty-seven folding tables. Modern half morocco and marbled boards. Some occasional foxing. Overall crisp and very good. Untrimmed. The first report includes communications of the Spanish minister General Vives regarding the revolting Spanish American colonies possible Spanish session of Florida and other subjects. The second work consists of twenty-seven folding plates listing the names of American-owned vessels and other property claimed as Spanish spoliations. SERVIES 1048. hardcover books
194588779N. Pl: Comite Nacional del M.L.E.-C.N.T. en Francia 1945. 56p. inscribed by Congress President Juan Puig Elias to one of the Ferrers slightly worn wraps with a small tear in margin on last few pages not affecting text. Comite Nacional [del M.L.E.-C.N.T. en Francia] unknown books
1945260789Paris: Comite Nacional 1945. 56p. stapled wraps 5.25x8.5 inches evenly browned else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Comite Nacional unknown books
1945261329Paris: Comite Nacional 1945. 56p. stapled wraps 5.25x8.5 inches evenly browned staples rusted else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Comite Nacional unknown books
1945261341Paris: Comite Nacional 1945. 56p. stapled wraps 5.25x8.5 inches evenly browned staples rusted faint stain and small pen mark on front wrap else very good condition. Text in Spanish. Comite Nacional unknown books
1945252056Paris: Comite Nacional 1945. 56p. 5.5x8.5 inches wraps edge worn browned and lightly foxed pages evenly toned wraps beginning to detach a readig copy only. Text in Spanish. Comite Nacional unknown books
194524521Paris: Comite Nacional 1945. 56p. wraps edge worn and browned paper browned with minor chipping of corners 5.5x8.5 inches. Comite Nacional unknown books
198164129New York: Seaver Books 1981. Hardcover. 270p. very good first US edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards in dj. Novel set in North African cemeteries where young couples meet to have sex. Spain's greatest modern novelist according to some. Seaver Books hardcover books
1197Original lithographic poster in color. published by the Martha Graham Dance Company New York printed by Maeght Paris 1975. Mourlot 1050. <br /><br />Copy #51 of 75 signed by Miro in pencil on handmade paper there were also 500 unsigned copies with "letters" published as an advertising poster for the performance. Mourlot. The Lithographs of Joan Miro #1050; Picazo. The Posters of Joan Miro #86. 31" x 21". Image/sheet size 30 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. 78.0 x 56.4 cm unmatted Deckled edges. <br /><br />Miro created this lithograph as an advertising poster for the modern ballet Lucifer performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company featuring Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as guest artists. Lucifer premiered June 19 1975 at The Uris Theater in New York City as the main feature of The Martha Graham Gala. <br /><br />In Martha Graham's words "Many people have asked me why I did Lucifer with Rudolf Nureyev. Lucifer is the bringer of light. When he fell from grace he mocked God. He became half god half man. As half man he knew men's fears anguish and challenges. He became the god of light. Any artist is the bringer of light. That's why I did Lucifer with Nureyev. He's a god of light. And Margot Fonteyn was such a glorious complement to him at it. Luminous as night. When I first saw Margot Fonteyn she was a great and beautiful figure." Unidentified interview with Martha Graham 1975.<br /><br />Fonteyn provides background as to the Premiere of Lucifer in 1975. "It was certainly a star occasion. Tickets for the performance went on sale from $10000 down to $50. Fans wore Martha Margot Rudi buttons. Among other things the Gala may have been a sort of official celebration of the marriage between classical ballet and modern dance. Martha dominated her Gala from a Chinese chair beside the proscenium arch where she announced each ballet. The fashion designer Halston made the Lucifer costumes." It was the first performance for Fonteyn without toe shoes. Margot Fonteyn Autobiography Knopf 1976<br /><br />Provenance: Through the family of former Rhode Island governor and United States senator John Orlando Pastore 1907-2000. books
1984116640Madrid: Biblioteca Cubana Contemporanea 1984. Paperback. 144p. text in Spanish signed by the author very good first Spanish edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Biblioteca Cubana Contemporanea paperback books
1993112456New York: Gas Station Editions 1993. 91p. 6x9 inches text in Spanish and English on facing pages illustrated with drawings some few of which are "erotic" very good first trade paper edition limited to 1000 copies in wraps and pictorial dj. German-born exiled to Argentina in 1930 and further exiled to Spain in 1975. Gas Station Editions unknown books
155067900First Edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus BIBLE IN SPANISH. ENZINAS Francisco de translator. Ecclesiastics. Libro de Jesus Hiio de Syrach qu'es llamado el Ecclesiastico. traduzido de Griego en lengua Castellana En Leon i.e. Strassburg: en Casa de Sebastian Grypho i.e. Augustin Fries 1550. First edition in Spanish of Ecclesiasticus. Small octavo 6 x 3 5/8 inches; 151 x 91 mm. 3 109 leaves. With numerous woodcut initials. With an imitation Gryphius woodcut device printed in reverse on title. We could only locate 3 copies at libraries Cambridge Madrid and Copenhagen. No other copy besides this present copy has been at auction in the past 50 years. Early 19th-century mottled sheep. Boards tooled in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. With red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Board edges tooled in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor dampstaining mainly to lower blank margin of preliminaries. Signature G is toned. Leaves O3 and O4 with marginal paper repair not affecting text. Final leaf is toned and has a near invisible paper repair not affecting text. Overall a very good copy. "A native of Burgos educated at Louvain and Wittenberg Francisco de Enzinas 1518-52 was a humanist scholar and Protestant convert who produced the first Spanish version of the New Testament printed in 1543 in Antwerp. He formed a partnership with the Strassburg printer Augustin Fries to publish Spanish translations of Greek classics and the remainder of the Bible of which he was only able to complete Psalms Ecclesiasticus Job and Proverbs before his death. Baudrier VIII 241 not having seen or located a copy citing Brunet supplement II 712" "Even before the complete edition of Castellio's Latin Bible appeared Enzinas who had already produced a Spanish Bible New Testament in Antewerp in 1543 had translated the Psalter the Wisdom of Solomon Jesus Sirach present copy and the book of Job into Spanish. All of these appeared with the false address 'En Leon en casa de Sebastian Grypho' though they were in fact his translations from manuscript versions of Castellio's edition. Enzinas continued to work on his translations until his death on 30 December 1552. He had planned to have his Spanish Bible printed in Geneva but this fortunately for Calvin never came to pass." Gilly Spanien und der Basler Buchdruck pp. 342-9 510-11. Found in Sebastian Castellio 1515-1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious .By Hans R. Guggisberg Bruce Gordon. "FRIES Augustine: printer in Zurich and Strasburg began to print at the former place about 1540. In 1547 he printed two books in English by John Hooper Heitz p. 39. Soon after this he moved to Strasburg and there printed among other things several works in Spanish by Franzisco de Enzinas in 1550 and 1551 Wiffen I pp 179 etc." A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers. By Edward Gordon Duff. HBS 67900. $8500 en Casa de Sebastian Grypho [i.e. Augustin Fries] hardcover books
1937WRCLIT53115Paris 1937. Oblong quarto purely typographic broadside 27 x 21 cm. Printed on recto only. Old vertical crease slight tanning at lower edge but unusually nice. An original handbill/flyer for the Paris component of this important event featuring over two hundred writers from twenty-six countries rallying in support of the beleaguered Spanish Republic and in opposition to the Nationalist/fascist forces. Among the listed participants are of course Malraux and Aragon as well as Cocteau H. Mann Benda Cowley Ehrenbourg L. Hughes Auden Brecht Neruda Tzara Spender Alberti Tolstoi et al. The conferences as well as a "Gala de la Danse de la Chanson et de la Poésie" to be held on the 18th were hosted at the Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin. unknown books
198253638New York: Seaver Books 1982. Hardcover. 159p. very good first US edition first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and bright price-clipped dj. Told from the perspective of a Spanish exile in Paris Goytisolo continues his assault on the conventional boundaries of bourgeois society and western sexual categories. Seaver Books hardcover books
199418831Rochester NY: Spillway Publications 1994. Paperback. 84p foreword author bio illustrations bi-lingual text in Spanish and English very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Rojas was a bilingual educator from New Mexico. Posthumous publication by her husband Victor. Spillway Publications paperback books
196110305Editorial Seix Barral S.A 1961. Paperback. Good. Petite softcover in b/w photographic wrappers portrait of Salinas. Tidy firm with notes and underlining to text paperclip indentation. Arriving First Class domestically or internationally. Editorial Seix Barral, S.A paperback books
1707WRCLIT65772London: Impresso por G. Bowyer Acosta de Fran. Coggan . 1707. 456pp. A8; b8; B-2D8; 2E4. Octavo. Old paneled calf gilt label. Upper joint cracked but cords sound shallow losses at crown and toe of spine front free endsheets detached one with early ink name small tidemark with red tinge at toe of gutter of last third of textblock modest tanning and foxing otherwise a good copy. The second edition of the Book of Common Prayer in Spanish printing a revised translation by Felix Anthony de Alvorado the minister to a congregation of Spanish merchants in London. Darlow & Moule suggest the translation was not so much a new undertaking as a simple revision and updating of Texeda's translation. It was reprinted with corrections in 1715. ESTC locates seven copies in North America. GRIFFITHS 162.2. ESTC T140403. DARLOW & MOULE II:8482n. Impresso por G. Bowyer, Acosta de Fran. Coggan ... unknown books
1979112978New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979. Hardcover. 281p. very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Young 3143. Source of both the film starring Raul Julia and William Hurt and play set in an Argentine prison for dissidents and homosexuals. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1977248244New York: The Viking Press 1977. Hardcover. 268p. very good first US edition quarter-cloth boards in unclipped dj. The Viking Press hardcover books
197712125New York: The Viking Press 1977. Hardcover. 268p. very good first US edition quarter-cloth boards in unclipped dj with sunned spine. The Viking Press hardcover books
193733100Barcelona: IWMA 1937. Folio 33.5cm.; staplebound self-wrappers printed mimeograph; 14 leaves printed rectos only. Minor wear from handling light toning to extremities else Very Good and sound. Special issue of the Bulletin issued by the IMWA most likely in conjunction with the anarcho-syndicalist Civil War-era libertarian movement headed by the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo and the Federación Anarchista Ibérica. Contents comprised of a single article "Events in Catalonia: Developments in Antifascist Spain Since July 19th 1936. IWMA unknown books
