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Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1944. 4to. mayor; XIII-526 pp. Con 701 ilustraciones fotográficas en negro entre el texto y 34 láminas en color. Encuadernación original en tela estampada.
Near fine/fine (not price clipped, small pencil mark has been erased from front endpaper, light browning page edges else book and dj both no fault) octavo 256pp. First edition. The author's Caribbean journey off the beaten track, full of strange encounters with local characters. Maps to endpapers and line drawings by the author.
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
100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, India, and Russia in the Middle East; The Angry South, by Ralph McGill; The Family in Modern Drama, by Arthur Miller; Memory (poem), by Theodore Roethke; The Soviet Challenge and American Policy - Danger Unrecognized, by Averell Harriman; Drug for the Major - story by Geoffrey Household; George F. Baker - an Atlantic portrait, by Katherine Anne Porter - episode from a novel in progress; Orchard (poem), by Richard G. Hubler; Faith and History, by Duncan Howlett; Three Aprils and a Poet, by Carl Carmer; Mozart Festivals, by Curtis Cate. Colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whiskey inside from cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
192 pages. Features: Reports on Argentina, Suez, France and Australia; Box Office is Not Enough, by Agnes De Mille; I Shall Vote for Eisenhower, by Robert Cutler; Why the Democrats should win, by Gerald W. Johnson; The Burning of the Waters (story) by James Still; Children of Light (poem) by Robert Huff; A Growth of Moderation, by Sumner H. Slichter; Country Auction (poem) by George F. Dell; Too Much Man (story) by Wolf Mankowitz; The Pendulum of Taste, by John Carter; The Long Night, by Lowell D. Blanton; Person-to-Person, by Leland Hazard; Courtesy on Wheels, by Mary Ellen Chase; The Shakespeare Boom?, by Alfred Harbage; Wolf Mankowitz, by John Metcalf; The Arab World - A Culture in Tradition - essays, stories, and verse by writers in the Arab World - a 72 page feature. Nice colour ad for Dewar's "White Label" and Ancestor scotch whisky inside front cover; Colour ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon inside back cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Nice colour full-page ad by the European Travel Commission on page 20. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
240 p., illus. Hardcover Good condition in fair d.j.; hinges cracked fair
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.
385 p. Hardcover Very good condition
DJ with light chipping along edges; Profusely illustrated; 8vo; 252 pages
297 pages including index. One of Canada's foremost experts on racism examines the everyday life of the approximately 300,000 people of Caribbean origin in southern Ontario. "Worthwhile reading for anyone seriously concerned about racism." - Gordon W.E. Nore, Books in Canada. Very clean and unmarked with very light wear. Wonderful copy. Book
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
8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xv, 315 pp, frontis, numerous illustrations from photos on plates, maps, boat plans, glossary. original blue blind-ruled pictorial gilt cloth, gilt title lettering on cover and spine, very lightly rubbed at edge, interior clean, near fine overall. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Cruising in the Lesser Antilles, Virgin Islands in a clipper-bow 50 foot ketch, Great Bahama Bank, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Barbuda, Dutch islands, Nassau, etc.
758p., illus. Hardcover Good condition in worn d.j. fair
329 p. Hardcover Good condition in good d.j. good
1st English edition. Later boards. 8vo. 94 pages, 22 cm. In English. CONTENTS: Characteristics of the Jewish Settlement --- The Pre-Historic' Period --- The New Immigration [refugees & survivors] --- Economic Development --- Culture and Press --- Jews and Cubans --- Organizing the Community. Translated from Spanish into English by Simon Wolin. Boris Sapir (1902-1989) was a prominent Russian Menshevik who fled to Germany then Cuba after the Bolshevik ascension to power. He worked as a historian during his brief time in Cuba, but he ultimately emigrated to the U. S. SUBJECTS: Cuban Jewry. No copies in OCLC. Ex-library with usual markings. Some damp stains, but overall Very good condition. (YID-32-22)
xx + 263pp., 22cm. Publisher's hardcover in green cloth, good condition, R105811
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.
Articles: The Challenge of Navigation to Hydrography on the British Columbia Coast, 1850-1930; Prisoners of War and British Port Communities, 1793-1815; A Private War in the Caribbean - Nova Scotia Privateering, 1793-1805; Labour and the Unions in Wartime Essential Industry - Shipyard workers in British Columbia, 1939-1945; Port Cities in the French Wars - The Responses of Merchants in Bordeaux, Hamburg and Livorno to Napoleon's Continental Blockade, 1806-1813; plus several book reviews. Bit of high-lighting to table of contents else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
36 pages. Handsomely produced on glossy stock generously illustrated with color and black and white reproductions of archival photos, ads, and illustrations. Features: William D. Allison - The Master of Suspension; Recollections of Bill Allison's Youngest Son; The 1955 Caribbean Hardtop; Hot Rodding the Packard V-8; Buying a Brand New 50-Year Old Packard - an original 1955 Patrician - article with many color photos; 1955 - Everything Was New; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
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
DJ price clipped and with light chipping. ; Numerous fold out maps. Rear part with many ads. This is a later edition of this originally early travel guide. Almost as thorough as a Baedeker; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 444 pages
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
A small dent on botom of front board. ; Illustrated with 175 B&W photographs ; 8vo; 390 pages
88 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
253 p., illus. & endpapers by the author. Hardcover Very good condition good