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1924002563New York: F. A. Stokes 1924. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. 8vo cloth <br/><br/> F. A. Stokes hardcover
195920102Princeton NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. . 1959. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Boards with light shelfwear. DJ with small chips and one open tear. ; One of the few books about the islands nicely illustrated. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 208 pages . D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. hardcover
193118263Tropical Plant Research Foundation/Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust. 1931. Hardcover. Near Fine. Faint foxing to top edge; Limited Edition # 811 of 1000 copies; 8vo; 318 pages . Tropical Plant Research Foundation/Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust hardcover
19652221599<p>First edition. Small thin octavo. Preface by Felix B. Visillac. Original stiff tan wrappers stamped in black. Text browned due to paper quality. Very good. 54 pages.</p><p>Signed and inscribed by author to poet Alicia Ghiragossian on title page.</p> Direccion Lafuente paperback
1980IA8-289th Caribbean Geological Conference 1980 1982 389 Pp. 1980. Personal Copy of Arthur A. Meyerhoff with his stamp; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ small creases at corners of wraps and a few leaves; o/w in good condition. Soft Cover. Good. 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, 1980 (1982), 389 Pp. Paperback
1960025662Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations 1960. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Xiii 247. Orange Cloth. One Of 2000 Copies Of The First Printing But This Copy With Printed $5 Us Price At Bottom Of Front Flap So Perhaps An American Issue. Slight Signs Of Usage To Book And Dj. Inscribed To Mr. And Mrs. Z. T. Nyi Zau Tsung Nyi Of Los Angeles "With High Esteem And Respect". Information From His Archives At Usc: Theodore H.E. Chen Ph.D. 1939 Was Chairman Of Usc's Department Of Asian Studies From 1940 To 1968 And From 1960 To 1971 He Directed The East Asian Studies Center In Support Of Which He Had Obtained The First Federal Grants. Chen Also Secured Outside Funding For A Project To Help Train And Advise High School Teachers Of Chinese And Japanese. A Native Of Fuzhou China Chen Was President Of Fukien Christian University In 1946 And 1947 While On Leave To Participate In Postwar Rehabilitation. He Also Helped Organize Tunghai University In Taiwan As A Representative Of The United Board Of Christian Colleges. He Was The Author Of Nine Books Including Thought Reform Of Chinese Intellectuals And Maoist Educational Revolution And Chinese Education. Dr Chen Hits An Easy Target; The Worst Governments Are Those Who Try To Control What And How People Think And How And Where They Communicate Because Their Leaders Have An Excess Of The Oldest Disease Of Officials Crap-In-The-Brain Which Prevents Them From Engaging In Exchanges Of Facts And Ideas. <br/> <br/> Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations hardcover
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
195519787London: John Murray. 1955. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Moderate foxing to first and last few pages and edges. ; B&W Photographs`; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 403 pages . John Murray hardcover
196519830London: Collins. 1965. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Small closed tears to DJ. ; Expanded and revised edition originally published in 1958 ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages . Collins hardcover
1938029977Julia Ellsworth Ford 1938. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 74 illustrations and maps. 9 Pp. Yellow Card Wrappers Printed In Black. With Paste-On Printed Sheets With Additional Text On Inner Side Of Wrappers. Nerar Fine. Scarce; Only Two Examples In Worldcat. Her Archives Are At Yale And Presented There As "Julia Ellsworth Ford Was A New York Socialite Art Collector And Patron And Author Of Children's Books. She Was Married To Simeon Ford A Financier And Co-Owner Of The Grand Union Hotel In New York. Ford Presided Over A Salon That Included The Lebanese Mystic Kahlil Gibran Irish Poet W. B. Yeats And American Dancer Isadora Duncan. Her Published Works Include: Simeon Solomon: An Appreciation 1908 Imagina 1914 And Snickerty Nick 1919 Among Others." The Archive Apparently Does Not Include This Booklet. <br/> <br/> [Julia Ellsworth Ford] paperback
1970020612Los Angeles: University of California Latin America Center 1970. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine/Near Fine Jacket. 367 Pp. Red Cloth. First Edition. Clean Unmarked Undamaged Trace Of Wear At Corners. Dj Complete Price-Clipped Short Tear And Associated Wrinkling At Head Of Spine. <br/> <br/> University of California Latin America Center hardcover
1938024291New York: Dutton 1938. First Edition stated . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Photographs Large Folding Map. 322 Pp. Blue Silk Cloth Lettered In Red Yellow Endpapers. First Edition Stated. Cover Title: Silk Road. Lightly Used With Touch Of Rubbing At Bottom Corners Very Slight Aging To Spine Slight Foxing To Pastedowns Hinges Tight Contents Immaculate And Fresh No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> Dutton hardcover
196910667-2<p>London: Andre Deutsch 1969. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards. Fine in a price-clipped jacket with price increase sticker. The dust jacket has minor soiling to the rear panel else fine and bright. <b><i>Naipaul is the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.</i></b></p> Andre Deutsch, hardcover
1983019568Westbury: About Face Press 1983. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. 146 Pp. One Of The Author's Copies With Her Name And Address Written On Front Endpaper And Again Beneath Her Printed Name On The Title Page. Inscribed With Compliments From The Author On The Front Pastedown. With A Presentation Letter Dated 1984 Attached To Front Endpaper And A Loose Letter Discussing Her Book Etc. With Copies Of Two Letters From Prof. H. G. Creel Commenting Favorably Upon It Also. A Fine Book And Dj With A Few Pencil Emphasis Marks In The Text Pp 22-25. <br/> <br/> About Face Press hardcover
1954002948New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. 4to. xviii 314 xii 2 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over natural cloth stamped in gilt and red on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with full-color plates black and white in-text illustrations and black and white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. First Edition stated on copyright page. This is the first volume in what was to be a three-volume work on the aboriginal arts of the Americas but Covarrubias passed away in 1957 and the third volume covering South America was never completed. Very Good minor age-toning to endpapers internally clean and bright hinges tight small patch of foxing to upper right corner and along top edge of front cover otherwise bright and clean in Very Good dust jacket previous owner has used black marker to mask wear at head of spine a few water stains and minor sunning to spine rubbing and wear to all extremities a few short tears to edges. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1971901241<p>Gainesville Florida: University of Florida Press 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/near fine. Cloth. 647 pages including a Bibliography and an Index. Fold-out maps illustrations. Hardcover book has some very light rubbing on the front panel check mark in ink at the front-free end paper and the rear free end paper.</p> University of Florida Press hardcover
1917biblio275<p><em>First edition. Macmillan Company. New York. 1917. Octavo. xxiv 1 bl. 359pp 4pp ads. Frontis. 11 further plates and maps. Folding map of the Caribbean Lands. Original blue cloth with slight shelf wear. Partially unopened edges untrimmed. Bookplate of Thomas Watson Kirkconnell to fep. Signature H. A. Olmsted to ffep.</em></p> Macmillan Company hardcover
1916029953London: East And West Ltd. 1916. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 15 Pp. Orange Covers Printed In Black. Wear Small Chip At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover. Last Sentence With Warning That The West "Will See What We Can Do To Our Foes Who Dare Think Of Humiliating Us". <br/> <br/> East And West, Ltd. paperback
1988003367Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. xvi 2 346 2 pp. Bound in full black cloth title in gilt on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Very Good some soiling to edges of text block including a 2" blue stain to lower fore edge internally clean and tight in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with wear to extremities and similar blue stain to lower fore edge of rear cover. <br/><br/> Wesleyan University Press hardcover
19981261The University of North Carolina Press 1998. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Dustjacket has some wear. Cover has light wear. First printing. The University of North Carolina Press hardcover
1982biblio228<p>Hardback no dust jacket text unmarked VG</p> University of Illinois Press hardcover
1993003683New York: Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art 1993. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. 16 pp. Bound in illustrated stapled wrappers. Illustrations chiefly color. Catalog from an exhibition held from November 11 - December 18 1993 at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art in New York City. Includes checklist. Very Good creasing to rear cover and minor age-toning. <br/><br/> Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art paperback
1992033551Montreal: Les Editions Du Cidihca 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 254 Pp 2 Pp Index At End. Green Wrappers Printed In Black As Issued. Fine No Wear But Some Fading To Background Color On Spine. Inscribed By The Author To Andre Girard. Per Wikipedia Émile Ollivier 1940 - 2002 Was A Haitian -Born Educator And Writer Living In Quebec Canada. He Was Considered One Of The Most Important Haitian Writers Of His Time. He Was Born In Port-Au-Prince And After Studying At The Lycée In Port-Au-Prince Went On To Study Philosophy At The École Normale Supérieure D'haïti And Literature And Psychology In France. Following The Rise To Power Of The Pig-Dictator François Duvalier Ollivier Left Haiti For France In 1964. In 1965 He Came To Quebec First Settling In Amos In The Abitibi-Témiscamingue Region Where He Taught School And Later Moving To Montreal. Ollivier Worked As A Coordinator For The Quebec Ministry Of Education From 1973 To 1976. From 1977 To 1980 He Was An Administrator At The Université Du Québec À Montréal . He Was A Professor In The Education Sciences Department Of The Université De Montréal For 25 Years. <br/> <br/> Les Editions Du Cidihca paperback
1980Q-0710004788Routledge Kegan & Paul 1980-06-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Routledge Kegan & Paul paperback
1975003693Westlake Village CA: F & J Publishing Corp. 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good . 4to. 170 pp. Bound in full brown textured cloth stamped in gilt on cover and spine in black dust jacket cover illustration title printed in white on cover and spine. Full-color and black and white illustrations throughout. Includes bibliography. Inscribed by artist's wife María Sodí de Ramos Martínez on front free endpaper: "With affection to Dr. Cooperman/María S. de Ramos Martínez." An announcement for "Treasure Trove"- an exhibit of the artist's own works from his private collection- held at the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries in Los Angeles from October 14- November 8 1975 and an invitation to a preview showing on October 23 1975 attended by Sodí de Ramos Martínez and author George Small laid in. Biography of the Mexican painter muralist and educator who founded the first Escuela de Pintura al Aire Libre in México in 1913. After her husband's death María continued to foster his legacy by mastering serigraphy and making prints of his work. Fine bright copy in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing to spine and extremities 1/2" tear to top edge of rear cover. <br/><br/> F & J Publishing Corp. hardcover
