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192550353Reiseschilderung aus dem heutigen Mittelamerika. Aus dem Schwedischen von Rhea Sternberg. Hamburg, Uhlenhorst-Verlag, ca. 1925. Mit 1 Karte u. zahlreichen fotografischen Tafelabbildungen (überwiegend von R. Olsson). 383 S. Or.-Lwd. [6 Warenabbildungen]
191362167New York: The Century Co. 1913. 8vo. 314 pp. plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates facsimile TLS on front pastedown. Pictorial green publisher’s cloth silhouette map illust. of Panama and the Canal front cover black lettering front cover & spine minor dustsoiling shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this author’s memoir of his time working as a policeman on the Panama Canal Zone in 1912 while they conducted a census of the nationalities and citizens all residing during construction. He comments frequently on the “Jim Crow†laws preventing the mixing of White personnel with Indigenous peoples or West Indies-African workers and the continued struggle to negotiate quarters as well as make accurate count. The Century Co., hardcover
1988788973PN. New. 1988. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
194160340Panama City Panama & New York NY: The Panama National Tourist Commission 1941. Four pieces. 1st - 4to. 8 x 9 in. 80 pp. Photo illustrations maps text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers center fold crease as issued minor tidemark at center in lower part of brochure mostly in last half still G- copy; 2nd - 8vo. 4 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. in leporello accordion-style format printed in green & black photo illustrations map minor creasing VG; 3rd - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.25 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in green & black which unfolds to 12 x 17.25 in. broadside on verso photo illustrated NF; 4th - 12mo. 3.5 x 6.5 in. 20 pp unpaginated. printed in red & black illustrated which unfolds to 17.5 x 12.8 in. broadside on verso self-printed softcovers NF. First editions of this scarce series of well-illustrated travel brochures to Panama and the Panama Canal Zone on the eve of World War II. The photos depict Panama folk dances churches and shopping districts as well as indigenous Panamanian peoples jewelry pottery woven textiles and more available for sale. The Panama National Tourist Commission, paperback
191558381San Francisco: C.T. Co. Artgravure 1915. Oblong 4to. 10.25 x 8.25 in. 48 pp unpaginated. Colour-tinted photogravures throughout including panoramic centerfold birds-eye view by the Cardinell-Vincent Co. Embossed brown softcovers embossed raised gilt lettering yapp edges mounted colour photo front cover w/ original mailing envelope tears rubbing chipping F/G- copy. First edition of this nicely printing souvenir photographic record of the Exposition. The interior is excellent in this piece giving views of many of the pavilions fountains and courts. C.T. Co., Artgravure, paperback
1942221221942. Latin America Panama Life in both urban Panama and the rural town of Chepo during the 1940s photo archive with most prints dated to 1942. Archive of 17 items 16 silver gelatin photographs measure 3.5" x 2.5" with one panoramic photo mounted on cardstock measuring 2.25" x 11". This archive offers a visually rich record of everyday life across class racial and geographic boundaries. Multiple photographs feature captions in ink on the verso providing locations and dates. The archive is split between two geographic zones: the modest rural community of Chepo and a more metropolitan center-likely Panama City-showing large buildings post offices police headquarters cantinas and well-trafficked intersections. In one striking rural image captioned "Dorein sic Indian Mother and Child" a white American tourist likely one of the photo owners stands beside an Indigenous woman and her child on a stilted wooden platform. The Darien likely of either the Emberá Wounaan or Kuna tribes woman wears only a sarong while a toddler stands nude at her feet highlighting the tension between Western spectatorship and traditional village life. In another photo local children gather in front of a wooden building marked "Cantina La Favorita de Chepo" while boys play barefoot on an unpaved road. Women in housedresses stand along porches and Indigenous women in linen skirts and little else are seen emerging from thatched or wooded homes. An image marked "Cantina at Chepo - 3-29-42" shows two white men and a white woman smiling at a table in a roofed structure made of rough wooden beams likely serving as a makeshift bar during their travels. The photos from urban Panama offer a sharp contrast. A modern cantilevered government building identified as the "Police Headquarters" is captioned en verso "Building now has many bullet holes on the sides" possibly a reference to political unrest or postwar violence. Another image shows a broad intersection labeled "6th & 8th St" filled with pedestrians in Western clothing including men in white suits and hats women in modern dresses and a cyclist passing beneath a neocolonial archway connecting civic buildings. Other rural images feature homes elevated on stilts a forested footpath with American visitors walking alongside locals and a panoramic view mounted to board showing a wide aerial view of one of the region's larger towns. Minor wear to edges. Overall very good condition. A rare and intimate archive documenting contrasting experiences of daily life in Panama across rural Indigenous communities and modernizing urban zones in the early 1940s with strong documentary value in the areas of colonial tourism race and hemispheric wartime movement. unknown
1994271689PN. New. 1994. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition . PN paperback
1930300102Die Neue Zeit (Rudolf Zitzmann Verlag), Lauf bei Nürnberg 1930. 307 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und einer mehrfach gefalteten farbigen Karte, 8°, Original-Leinen, Vorsatz mit Namenseintrag und Exlibris-Stempel des Bonner Geographen [Wilhelm] Lauer, Einband minimal fleckig, insgesamt gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar,
200029365London [etc.] : MacMillan Picador, 2000. 520 pp. Gr. 8°. 1st publ. Orig. ill. pb.
197729315New Haven:: Simon & Schuster 1977. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats tremendous medical accomplishments political power plays heroic successes and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid lively exposition McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Simon & Schuster, unknown
19140801-22New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1914. [5t. ed.]. 8°. XV, 459 pp. mit Portraifrontisp. u. Seidenhemdchen, 47 ganzs. Taf. u. e. gefalt. Karte. Rotes OLn. mit Deckel- u. Rückengoldprägung, sowie Deckelblindprägung. Roes OLn. mit Deckel- u. Rückengoldprägung, sowie Deckelblindprägung. Kapitale u. Ecken etwas berieben, Spiegel mit Namenszug u. Buchhändleretikett.
1991D3S0035205Panama Canal Commission 1991-01-01. Pamphlet. Good. 1982 EDITION! 6 of 11 pages of pencil underlining. First page has minor sticker residue. Cover shows wear with bumped/curling corners. Binding is tight. Panama Canal Commission unknown
196646055N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. Near Fine. N.p.: Gnaoua Press 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 620pp.; halftone photographic frontispiece and illus. throughout. A hint of toning to wrapper margins else Fine. Gnaoua Press unknown
1967332687Morocco: Gnaoua Press 1967. First edition. 20 pp. viii. 8vo. Staple bound illustrated wrappers some sunning to spine and stain from price sticker else near fine. First edition. 20 pp. viii. 8vo. Panama Rose was the pen name of Rosalind Schwartz whose partner at the time was poet underground filmmaker publisher and photographer Ira Cohen. From around 1961-1965 they lived together in Tangier Morocco where they spent time with other ex-pats Paul Bowles William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin and worked on music and publications. Schwartz wrote The Hashish Cookbook at the suggestion of Brion Gysin who years earlier had given Alice B. Toklas the hashish fudge recipe that appears in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Often The Hashish Cookbook is wrongly attributed as being written by Cohen himself though he did publish it when he returned to New York in 1966. 10000 copies were printed and sold within six weeks. Cohen later sold the rights to a British publisher for a percentage of sales and subsequent reprints were made and some bootlegs are known to exist. Gnaoua Press unknown
1966PARIS 44GNAOUA 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION 1966 Panama Rose was the pen name of Rosalind Schwartz whose partner at the time was poet underground filmmaker publisher and photographer Ira Cohen. From around 1961-1965 they lived together in Tangier Morocco where they spent time with other ex-pats Paul Bowles William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin and worked on music and publications. Schwartz wrote The Hashish Cookbook at the suggestion of Brion Gysin who years earlier had given Alice B. Toklas the hashish fudge recipe that appears in The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Often The Hashish Cookbook is wrongly attributed as being written by Cohen himself though he did publish it when he returned to New York in 1966. GNAOUA Paperback
1980F1600-PanamaMorrow New York 1980 New York: William Morrow & Company 1980. First edition. First printing with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over beige paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering and blue endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap $9.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo 203 pages. A psychological novel adapted from an unproduced screenplay by the authors it explores the boundaries between intimacy and deception. Norman Panama 1914-2003 was an American screenwriter film director and producer best known for his long collaboration with Melvin Frank on classic comedies such as "White Christmas" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House." Albert E. Lewin 1916-1992 was a New Yorkborn writer for radio television stage and film whose papers are held at UCLA. "The Glass Bed" was their only published novel. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Morrow, New York hardcover
