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128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
34 pages. Includes one page of photos and biographical information inside front cover. Songs include: Island in the Sun; Scratch, Scratch; Don't Ever Love Me; Lucy's Door; Coconut Woman; Haiti Cherie; Cordelia Brown; Angelique-O; Judy Drownded; Calypso Carnival; Brown Skin Girl; Balance. Above-average but not excessive wear. Minimal markings to contents. A sound vintage copy of this nostalgic compilation. Book
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Minute tears to top spine. Ex-lib with minimal markings. ; Fold-out map in front. ; 8vo; 389 pages
Previous owner's name to first blank page. Binding could be tighter; The decline of Spain and the rise of America as imperial powers ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 464 pages
274 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. "Kiple's detailed examination of diet, disease, and demography in the Caribbean and West Africa raises significant issues for all concerned with the history of medicine, slavery, and European overseas expansion." - from dust jacket. Above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Minimal markings to contents. Book would be graded as Good if not for moisture damage affecting upper portion of back half of book. All text legible. No odour detected. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy of this informative work. Book
72 pages. Features: Caribbean hostiility to Canada's $600 million of investment in the region - with illustration of Trinidadian riot cop after assaults on Canada's banks; Feature article on "The Middle Canadians" - the people who don't make the news; Rusty Staub - the making of a Muscular Miillionaire - major article with large colour photos; The Great Canadian Peace Festival at Parkhill, Ontario - that never was; Peter Stollery's 2,200 mile bike ride through Central America; Nice colour photo two-page ad for CP Air; The entertainment wall of tomorrow; Film in the high schools; From Men to Fiends at My Lai 4; Why the CBC is phasing out the tv show Bonanza; Nice colour photo Coke ad of beach scene on back cover; and more. Two smallish red marks atop front cover otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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)
1st edition. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. 36 pages, 21 cm. In English. Poetry by the Jamaican poet and political leader Errol Stephenson. The work is dedicated to the victims of gun violence from the 70s and 80s. The 70s and 80s were a time of political and economic turmoil in Jamaica. The violence and squalor that came with this is the subject of many of Stephensons poems (Wikipedia, 2018) . SUBJECTS: Jamaica - Poetry. OCLC lists 14 copies worldwide (OCLC: 9821202) . Very good condition. (AMR-54-45)
Light fraying to spine ends, light rubbing to extremities. Rear hinge started; Rear folding maps: Geographical map in color (not folded) and folded map of telegraph lines and stations as well as Porto Rico and its coastline ; Ex-Library; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 240 pages
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light soiling to back boards. ; A detailed, self published guide of Trinidad, one of the few ones written about this island at this time. Numerous b&w photographs - including a tissue guarded frontispiece. Large fold out map. Numerous ads in rear unpaginated section ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 172 + ads pages
1st edition. Original Paper Wrappers, 8vo, 157 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. On verso of Title Page: "Fun goles Daichland biz mdinas Isroel. " Prolific Cuban Zionist writer. SUBJECT (S) : Zionism. Jewish travelers -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees. Israel -- Description and travel. OCLC lists 9 copes worldwide. Residue of later outer binding on spine and adjacent original cover, otherwise Very Good Condition (latam-2-3)
Full leather boards with quite some rubbing. Book block split. Bookplate. ; This is volume 5 only of the 8 volume edition. (Was originally published in 10 volumes). Including a steel engraved map of the European settlements in Africa. ; 8vo; 499 pages
Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, Éditeurs, 1849; in-8, 4-160-164-156-102-2-8 pp. + 1 carte dépliante, 26 pl. hors-texte, broché (dos fendu, avec quelques petits manques, quelques rousseurs, quelques planches sont détachées). Collection : l'Univers « Histoire et description de tous les peuples ». Ouvrage particulièrement intéressant sur les Antilles, qui sont peu nombreux. Illustré de gravures en taille-douce, exécutées par divers graveurs. État moyen.
8vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, numerous full-page photographs by Costa and double-page map on green stock, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at extremities and with one short closed tear on front panel. Published a year after the first edition. The author's first book and a travel classic. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Gilt lettering a bit faded to spine and front boards. Usual browned endpapers. Else a wonderful copy with all the maps in NF condition; With three specially drawn maps and seven plans. A rare Baedeker look-alike for a destination that almost nobody else published. Large interesting ad section at rear; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; x, 460 pages
8vo., First Edition, with front and rear endpaper maps; original black cloth, gilt back, blue top (moderately faded), a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased at edges, chipped with minor loss at head and tail (just affecting lettering) and with two short closed tears. Jacket design by William Belcher. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
"In presenting this collection of West Indian calypsos, Mills Music, Inc. is proud to introduce them to the American public. Their effect is that of a fresh breeze from the Caribbean, from whence these melodies originate." - page 2. 32 pages. Charming cover illustration of Leighla Whipper. Includes lyrics, chords and piano sheet music for these songs: Back Down to the Tropics; Land of the Humming Bird; Don't You Say 'No'; Sweethearts; Chinita; A Pretty Girl Will Turn You Anyway But Loose; I'll Have Me Money By Then; In Martinique; Joe; Take Me To the Carnival; Bad Woman; My Mama; Song of the Jumbies; Ou Belle Marie Coolie. Contents clean and unmarked. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Contemporary store and price rubber stamps upon front cover. A sound copy of this marvelous WWII-era compilation. Book
Slight wear to extremities. Foxing to first couple of pages, and last couple of pages. Booksellers' blindstamp to front free endpaper ; Best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast, ' Dana visited Cuba while Congress was deciding whether to annex the island nation; 8vo; 288 pages
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
Madrid, por Don Joachín Ibarra, 1783. 8vo.; 2 hs., 240 pp. Encuadernación de época, en piel marbreada, ligeramente fatigada.
(Original) boards with light rubbing to extremities and faded. Spine sunned and with light fraying. Bookplate. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Very light foxing to first and last few pages ; 60 b&w illustrations. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 366 pages
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
8vo., Second Impression, with numerous plates, full-page facsimile and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, ribbon marker, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Among other adventures, Mitchell-Hedges details the discovery in 1924 of the Crystal Skill at Lubaantun (then British Honduras; now Belize). Published in the same month as the first edition. SCARCE.
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
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION OF THIS ATLAS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, published in France during the Seven Years' War (also known as the "French and Indian War".) xii, 171 pp + engraved title and THIRTEEN FINE MAPS, of which 8 are folding (complete). Also illustrated with ten headpieces, nine of which depict the entry into a major port. Includes Jamaica (with several maps), Barbuda, St. Kitts, Nevis, the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua, the Lucayes (now the Bahamas), and Bermuda. 4to (26 x 20.3 cm). Attractively bound in contemporary calf, with the ARMS OF KING LOUS XV OF FRANCE EMBLAZONED IN GILT ON FRONT AND BACK COVERS. Binding restored at head and tail of spine, and very solid. Small, faint marginal stain to engraved title-page, else INTERNALLY FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH MAPS AND TEXT VERY FRESH. Sabin 4553. RARE AND IMPORTANT.
