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1966171671966. Saint-Domingue République Dominicaine Unidad n°4 5 6 et 7 du 8 au 29 mai 1966 - Agrafé 17 cm x 25 cm et 21 5 cm x 29 cm pour le dernier 51 et 48 pages pour le dernier photos noir & blanc in-texte - Directeur : Alfonso Ovalles Martinez textes en espagnol - Bon état
The gods, Apollo and Hermes, debate what, if anything, sets humans apart from other mortal beings-a question that is more frequently part of today's conversations among scientists about consciousness. Settling on intelligence, they enable a random group of mutts, poodles, retrievers, and other breeds to develop their own language, comprehend human language, and understand the passing of time. But the book's central quest is to explore the possibility for happiness-and whether intelligence hinders or helps this. In their new state of awareness, the dogs escape from a veterinary clinic and form a pack in a city park. Armed with human capabilities, they jockey for power and quarrel over how these gifts should be used. Fifteen Dogs shows you can teach an old genre new tricks.André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. Fifteen Dogs, won the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. 171p.Stated First edition but with a Gillerfinalist marker on front cover Book
1991186831991. Paris chez les auteurs 1991 - Cartonné 24 5 cm x 32 cm 174 pages nombreuses ills noir et blanc et couleur in et hors-texte - Texte de Alex et Françoise Uri préface de Félix Proto bibliographie discographie- Très bon état
1978002152Paris: Editions D'art Lucien Mazenod 1978. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. 4to. 614 2 pp. Bound in full white cloth title stamped in blue on spine color illustration pasted to front cover. Full color and black and white illustrations most of the photographs are by Jean Mazenod. Includes bibliography and index. Text in French. Very Good internally clean and bright light soiling to extremities of text block and binding otherwise binding clean and bright in Very Good dust jacket with several short tears and wear to extremities overall minor age-toning and rubbing. Very attractive copy. <br/><br/> Editions D'art Lucien Mazenod hardcover
197025721970. Fort-de-France Centre d'Etudes Régionales Antilles-Guyane 1970 - Agrafé 21 cm x 27 cm 48 pages - Texte de Albert Valdman bibliographie établie par Jean-Pierre Jardel préface de Jean Rosaz - Bon état
1970000206New York: Praeger 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Unpaged. Bound in yellow cloth in black dust jacket printed in orange. Illustrated with black and white photographs by John T. Hill. Forward by Ignacio Bernal. Introduction by Michael D. Coe. Very Good 1/8" stain through first few pages minor age-toning to upper edge of several pages photographs sharp and clean in Good price-clipped dust jacket 1/2" closed tear and several small gouges to upper right corner of back cover light overall scuffing. <br/><br/> Praeger hardcover
Madrid, Cuadernos de Literatura Contemporánea, 1947. 4to.; 120 pp., 3 hs., con ilustraciones a toda plana de Roski - Pinel, entre el texto. Cubiertas originales.
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and very tiny bump to lower front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. Unpaginated. Now protected in a fully-removable transprent sleeve. 28pp. An alphabet book written in rhyme which captures the feeling of the Caribbean islands using both words and the brightly coloured paintings which accompany every page.
Jamaica Surveyed by Staff Com.r G. Stanley 1873-5 and Lieut.t T. F. Pullen 1876-9. Morant Cays by Lieut A. Carpenter and the Officers of H. M. S. Sparrowhawk 1890.London Published at the Admiralty 27 October 1880 under the Superintendence of Captain F.J. Evan. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
Jamaica South Coast Port Royal and Kingston Harbours surveyed by Captain J.W.F. Combe assisted by Lieutenant L.G. Garbett and Lieutenants J.A. Rupert-Jones & E.V Shankland 1913 Soundings East of Kingston by Lieut-Comm.r J.A. Edgell Surveying Ship "Mutine" 1914. Additional soundings from a Survey by Staff Comm.r G. Stanley 1873-4. Kingston and adjacent topography chiefly from a Colonial map.London Published at the Admiralty 18 January 1916 under the Superintendence of Captain J.F. Parry. Small corrections: 1931. Folded
Port Antonio (556x644 mm) Surveyed by Captain R.W. Glennie assisted by Lieut.t Com.dr C.S. Lockhart A.E. Harbord D.L. Cowan R.M. Southern & A.H. Stanley H.M. Surveying Ship "Mutine" Jan.y - March 1921. Intesting "Objects on this chart conspicuous to the Navigator" Titchfield Hotel, Richmond House, Isolation Hospital...London Published at the Admiralty 7 May 1923 under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral Fred.k C. Learmonth. Folded
19012221928<p>First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with b/w photos by V.K. Van De Venter Robin H. Ford John H. Rising L.E. Mayo and W.G. Spiker. Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and green. No dust jacket. Very good small crack at rear joint. 220 pages 3 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Scarce.</p> The Rumford Press hardcover
Binding not tight; The Caribbean as seen through the lens of the dealings of the United Fruit Company. ; Romance of Big Business, Vol. 1; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 368 pages
191420075Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company. 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Front hinge with a bit of play ; The Caribbean as seen through the lens of the dealings of the United Fruit Company. ; Romance of Big Business Vol. 1; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
191419183Garden City: Doubleday Page & Company. 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding not tight; The Caribbean as seen through the lens of the dealings of the United Fruit Company. ; Romance of Big Business Vol. 1; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 368 pages . Doubleday, Page & Company hardcover
19012221928<p>First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with b/w photos by V.K. Van De Venter Robin H. Ford John H. Rising L.E. Mayo and W.G. Spiker. Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and green. No dust jacket. Very good small crack at rear joint. 220 pages 3 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Scarce.</p> The Rumford Press hardcover books
18290005575Boston: Bowles and Dearborn 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo xv 256pp. original quarter linen & boards untrimmed 250mm x 145mm chipped paper label on spine shaken inked name on free endpaper needs some resewing. <br/><br/>Rev. Abbot went to Cuba to restore his fragile health. This eloquent Harvard graduate then traversed a thousand miles on horseback through Sumidero and Lemonal Matanzas a week in Havana etc. "The pictures he has given are of things which were immediately before him as exact in circumstances and as true to the life as his pencil could pourtray; and the statement of facts is correct according to his convictions - Preface." Sabin 14; Palau 519; Shaw & Shoemaker 37345. Abbot died on his return trip before reaching his Massachusetts home. Bowles and Dearborn hardcover
1334209413.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
Later wrappers, 8vo. 219, 16 pages, 20 cm. In Hebrew. Personal copy of Rabbi Jacques J. Lyons with his stamp. Jacques Judah Lyons (1814-1877) was an American rabbi. He was born and educated in Surinam, but ultimately left for America in 1837. He was the rabbi at Congregation Beth Schalom in Virginia and from 1839 onward, was the elected rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel in NYC. He helped found Mount Sinai Hospital (Wikipedia, 2019) . SUBJECTS: Humash. OCLC lists 4 copies worldwide (Ets Haim, U. Library Amsterdam, Bamberg) . Vinograd Roedelheim, 71. Lacks wrappers. Has been trimmed down with some minor loss of text to title page. (RAB-66-11)
190530136London: Adam and Charles Black 1905. First edition. With 74 very fine and attractive colourplates from the paintings of Archibald Stevenson Forrest each with a captioned guard. Tall thick 8vo in the publisher's original pale blue cloth the upper cover and spine both decorated with ships craps clouds and sunbursts in brown ivory and gilt and with gilt lettering t.e.g. ix 272 4 ads pp. A handsome copy the plates all fine and bright some very occasional and light foxing within the text the lovely decorated binding is solid and firm with very little sign of wear but with a bit of mellowing to the spine front endpaper with cosmetic only spitting at the still-strong hinge. FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE MORE ELUSIVE TITLES IN BLACK'S TRAVEL SERIES A LOVELY BOOK IN FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. The blue seas and sun-drenched islands of the West Indies served as wonderful inspiration for both pen and paintbrush in this hard to find gem. Jamaica receives the lion's share of attention but other subjects include Barbadoes St. Lucia Dominica St. Thomas and Martinique. Archibald Forrest wonderfully captures the bright colourful scenery and colourful peoples of these tropic isles. Adam and Charles Black hardcover
2003LFA-126739774Revue de 82 pages, format 220 x 280 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
2001LFA-126716706N° 23 (2001) 80 pages, format 210 x 270 mm, illustré, broché couverture couleurs, bon état
193262783New York New Orleans Boston Chicago San Francisco & Miami: United Fruit Company Steamship Company Newcomb Printing Co. Inc. 1932. Tall 8vo. 7.2 x 9.5 in. 30 2 pp. printed in black & gold. With photo illustrations throughout gold borders decorations double-page centerfold pictorial map. Gold & black illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art depicting a Great White Fleet ship minor rubbing shelfwear slight bumping to lower right corner still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully illustrated Art Deco brochure for the Great White Fleet which featured spacious white yacht-like steamships offering dependable year-round service from New York New Orleans and Boston to Havana & Santiago Cuba; Kingston Jamaica; Cristobal Panama Canal Zone; Port Limon Costa Rica; Cartagena Puerto Colombia and Santa Marta Colombia; Puerto Barrios Guatemala and Honduras and British Honduras. United Fruit Company Steamship Company, [Newcomb Printing Co., Inc., paperback
1855List3682Philadelphia: Edward L. Walker 142 Chestnut St. above 6th 1855. Folio sheet music pictorial lithographed cover approximately 13.5 × 10.5 inches. Light edge wear and minor toning; very good with a strong impression of the cover illustration. An antebellum piano dance reflecting the plantation imagery that circulated widely in mid-nineteenth-century American popular music. “Cuba Plantation Dance†was composed by Chas. H. Wilson a little-documented composer whose name appears chiefly in connection with this work and issued in Philadelphia during the early 1850s by Edward L. Walker the predecessor firm to the major publishing house Lee & Walker. A copy is recorded in the Levy Collection at Johns Hopkins which dates the publication to 1855.<br /> <br /> The cover presents a stylized plantation landscape framed by tall stalks of sugar cane with a small central vignette of a dancing Black figure. The use of Cuban plantation imagery reflects contemporary American fascination with the Caribbean sugar economy and with plantation life beyond the United States. During the 1850s Cuba was one of the largest slave societies in the Atlantic world. By the midcentury the island’s sugar plantations relied on hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and the enslaved population of Cuba was estimated at roughly 400000 people in the 1840s–1850s working primarily in the rapidly expanding sugar industry. Although Spain formally agreed to end the Atlantic slave trade in 1820 illegal importations of enslaved Africans into Cuba continued for decades supplying labor for the island’s plantations well into the 1850s. American publishers frequently borrowed such imagery for plantation-themed dance music marketed to the parlor trade. Pieces labeled “plantation dances†or “Ethiopian dances†formed part of the broader culture of minstrel and plantation entertainment. The title page bears a dedication to “Miss Arabelle Conrad†typical of mid-century sheet music addressed to amateur pianists. Along with the aforementioned copy in the Levy collection we find copies at Michigan and Temple. Edward L. Walker, 142 Chestnut St., above 6th unknown
1890List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha†described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance†composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. <br /> <br /> William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie†Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg.<br /> <br /> Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo†a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha†also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897.<br /> <br /> Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. <br /> <br /> 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger†African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown
