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2015003694New York: Fundación Cisneros 2015. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to. 256 pp. Bound in silver gray cloth title in metallic blue on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color illustrations throughout. Inscribed by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros on front free endpaper: "New York/Oct 2015/For Dick and Kathy-/sharing our great/love for Latin America/Enjoy!/Patty Gustavo" Fine bright clean copy in Fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> [Fundación Cisneros] hardcover
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
A9789211220940Paperback / softback. New. In a regional and international context of weak growth high inflation and growing inequality the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean must focus policies on reactivating rebuilding and transforming economic and production systems to advance towards low-carbon and high-tech economies that address climate change and reduce their historical gaps structural heterogeneity and dualism. This document considers the complex conditions that pose significant challenges to accelerating growth tackling high inflation and the cost-of-living crisis maintaining transfers to the most vulnerable households mitigating the social costs of the crisis and boosting investment. Its chapters analyse the dynamics of globalization and the policy challenges in changing the production structure and moving towards sustainable development. In addition they consider strategies for reducing inequality and creating universal protection systems and decent jobs in a challenging world. Nine strategic sectors expected to drive a big push for sustainability are examined through the prism of green growth. The document concludes with policy recommendations for advancing towards a renewed model for inclusive and sustainable growth paperback
2005500098203ACTES SUD 2005 176 pages 21 4x1 4x10 8cm. 2005. Broché. 176 pages.
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
Signed 'Scott Stallard' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. pp. Lavishly illustrated book with 117 mainly full-page coloured photographs of Bermuda and an introduction by Peter Benchley.
56 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
2005251165San Francisco: Fellowship of Reconciliation 2005. Two issues of the Puerto Rico Update nos. 35 and 44 the latter issue expanded to include Colombia and a Vieques Issue Brief from Winter 2002. 4 8 and 4 pages respectively all 8.5x11 inches very good but for folds from mailing. Much coverage of local opposition to US military activities in the area. Fellowship of Reconciliation unknown books
pp. xi, 282 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings, photographs and a map. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. Bookplate of Charles P. Stahr. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding with gold decorated and lettered spine. Hardbound. Nice copy. Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a famous American author and journalist. In 1890 he became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and began making trips in its behalf to various parts of the world. As a foreign correspondent he covered all the wars of his day and published several books recording his experiences. His war dispatches were colorful and dramatic. His other writings include some of the best tales to come out of the Edwardian era. This lovely copy would make a fine gift. W53
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
0710006497.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Fine English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In English and Turkish. 180 p., color and b/w photos. The world of Venezuelan Nogales Bey.= Venezuelali Nogales Bey'in dünyasi.
Stories: Murder Island; Land of still waters; an accessory after the fact; on the north-west frontier; the professor; Caribbean ordeal; the lion-man; twenty pigs; fighting the locust; the wide world in captivity; the dingo hunter. Front cover missing. Well-worn. Book
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
256 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
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
Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine with a bit of darkening. Former owner's writing on half title page. ; 75 b&w photographs by Walter Rutherford - amazing photogravures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages
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
The slightest of wear to spine ends. Small intention to front board; Detailed, illustrated look at the various options for participatory and spectator sports in the Caribbean, mostly hunting, boating, and fishing ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 130 pages
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
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 144 pages, heavily illustrated, included unopened pack of "facsmile documents" in back pocket. 145 illustrations, 90 in color, 10 facsimile documents.
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
253 p., illus. & endpapers by the author. Hardcover Very good condition good
2025x-1032377690Taylor & Francis Ltd 2025. Paperback. New. 390 pages. 9.18x6.12x9.21 inches. Taylor & Francis Ltd paperback
