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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
1999200664Havana: the National Assembly 1999. Pamphlet. 37p. 5.5x8.5 inches fine first edition pamphlet in stapled white wraps with depiction of Cuba on cover. This presentation "aired on Cuban television and broadcast on international radio on.January 8 1999. the National Assembly unknown books
1834WRCAM51022Havana 1834. 2pp. plus blank integral leaf. Bifolium. Minor edgewear and toning. Offsetting. Good. Manuscript document written by John Morland acting consul in Cuba relaying the details of the voyage of the ship "Hunter" travelling from New York to New Orleans. The ship ran into trouble partway through the voyage with seven passengers saved from the "disastrous" situation. The letter does not detail how many if any perished. The seven passengers continued their journey on two other ships one being a Spanish vessel. unknown books
181025380New York City NY: Not Published 1810. One page letter dated New York 18th December 1810 and being given to James Thomson Grocer New York. ".Sir - As I am going to Havannah in the Brig Galen Capt. Annes it is My wish that if any accident Should happen to prevent me returning in the vessel you will See to and take possession of what property of mine may be in her and in case of My Death that by virtue of my power of attorney you collect my estate together as much as in your power and after paying my just and lawful debts remit the remainder to my brother John Gann Goodestone near Wingham County of Kent England. Yours William Gann" Approx. 8" x 13" size; ink handwriting very legible. Light wear dustiness split at one section at old fold lines; in very good condition and interesting early 19th century New York City business history law ephemera. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Good. Not Published paperback books
190025439Havana Cuba: Not Published 1900. Both letters two pages on Samuel Wyman Smith Importer Havana Cuba letterhead paper; dated Jan. 4 1900 and Dec. 5 1900. Both addressed to "My Dear Gilbert"; the contents typed and concerning the fate of their mutual investment in "The Studio" restaurant & bar in Havana. ".all the papers that I can find at the Studio have been forwarded to you at Cambridge Springs. The reason for this delay has been that I have been quite ill having had a toe amputated.You will see the Studio is improving. I have just made an arrangement with two Chinamen as cooks Spanish waiters however.this should finally put the place on a paying basis." adding handwritten ".I trust you will soon send me a good sized check as I need money desperately." The letter of December relates Smith's attempts to find buyers and leasors for the restaurant ".I am bothered to death by the bills of the place existing before you left some of which I have personally guaranteed.have also had a proposition from a Spaniard to take the restaurant.As a restaurant is always a dead loser except under very competent management this seems to me to be most advantageous.The quarantine has been taken off the camps here and business is much better."; continuing to ask for money. With the original mailing envelopes addressed to Mr. W.E. Gilbert. This venture was perhaps an attempt to meet the needs of the very large population of North Americans residing in Cuba after the Spanish-American War; many businesses opened especially in Havana including hotels bars and restaurants. In his book "On Becoming Cuban: Identity Nationality and Culture" By Louis A. Perez 2008 Univ. of North Carolina Press an individual named Edward E. Nelson opened the Studio restaurant in Havana in 1899 and was not very successful per the contents of these letters. Envelopes very soiled and worn; letters with light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. Interesting Cuban - U.S. business history ephemera from the early days of the 20th century telling of the unsettled commercial climate. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1950244442Republic of Cuba: Published by the Cuban Tourist Commission A Government Department 1950. First item on a 9x11.5 inch leaf of semi-alkaline paperstock printed smallpoint in black folded twice to make an upright 9x4 inch brochure this hand-folded again transversely; rather dust-soiled and handled a fair to good copy. Second item single leaf 11.5x17.5 inches machine-folded three times to make an upright 9x3.7 inch promotional brochure printed color both recto and verso displaying 19 happy snapshots captioned e.g. "Improve your rhumba where the rhumba was born". Item has a little creasing a pinpoint hole at a fold intersection a good to very good exemplar. The two together. Published by the Cuban Tourist Commission, A Government Department unknown books
199167620Coral Gables Florida: Elite Fine Art José Martínez-Cañas 6 Dec - 21 Dec 1991. 23x23cm. 24 pages color plates catalogue biography/chronology bibliograpic references pages 23-24 color pictorial wrappers PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Essay "Nature at the Sensual Extreme: Mario Bencomo's Paintings" by Donald Kuspit Elite Fine Art José Martínez-Cañas unknown books
200370922La Habana Cuba: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. 3 al 5 noviembre del 2003. 27cm. 171xviip bios. wrps 31 essays by curators art historians critics and promotors of the arts present the theorical side of the bienal theme of Art and Life. The program was divided into 5 sections: Arte y Vida Cotidiana Nuevas formas de exhibir el arte Más allá de regionalismos y localismos: "lo glocal"; Curadores y exposiciones; Bienales internacionales de arte. SPANISH TEXT WITH ENGLISH SUMMARY. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes... unknown books
200056789La Habana: Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam; Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plasticas Noviembre 2000. 24cm. 463 pages b/w and color plates portraits facsimiles biographies/chronologies catalogue indices folding color wrappers Excellent guide to new art in Cuban and Latin America with artists such as Ciro Abath Ricardo Benaím Alessandro Balteo Osvaldo Cibils León Ferrari Rubén Gutiérrez and Juan Carlos Ribero. N.B. Includes a section dedicated to architecture for the second time in the history of the Havana biennial. The architectural exhibitions are entitled: The Recovery of the Old City; From the Havana Tomorrow to the Havana Everyday; The City of the Future; Back to the Sixties; and The National Prizes for Architecture. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam; Consejo Nacional de las Artes Plasticas unknown books
19015653Havana 1901. Paperback. Very Good. 116p. Original lightly worn wrapper. <br/><br/> paperback books
1991159359Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales 1991. vii 187p. 11x8.5 inch hardcover in dj pages evenly toned else good condition in a lightly worn and soiled dj. Editorial de Ciencias Sociales unknown books
1982631121982. Paperback. Very Good. Original wrappers. 26cm. Spanish text. <br/><br/> paperback books
2003017614Madrid Spain: Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam 2003. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 431 pages of text. Paperback binding with a minor crease to the spine. The text is clean and unmarked. Profusely illustrated in full color. Text is in Spanish. Art museum located in La Habana or Havana Cuba. First edition. Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam Paperback books
1875WRCAM56107Cuba 1875. Twenty-two partially-printed forms on folio sheets completed in manuscript in a variety of hands. Most printed and accomplished on the recto only though a few with print or manuscript on the verso as well. Some with old folds chipping and small tears to edges of most documents one document with the upper right corner cut away. Occasional foxing tanning and ink offsetting and bleedthrough. Several documents with additional manuscript annotations. About very good overall. An important collection of contracts documenting Chinese indentured servitude in Cuba two signed in Chinese. All but one are from various municipalities in the Matanzas Province usually attested to with an ink or blind stamp from a local official one with paper tax stamps affixed. Each contract stipulates the term of service for the "colono" - one or two years along with wages to be paid food and clothing issued duties and hours to be worked and so forth. The laborers are identified in the contracts by their assigned Spanish names with no surnames though some forms have a section for their "nombre nacional" and place of origin as well. There are provisions for what happens if the servant cannot complete their term of service due to illness pending agreement with the "patrono" and a section on options for contract renewal. The latest of these contracts dated May 24 1875 bears the laborer's signature in Chinese. He is described as "al asiatico José" aged 30 of Macao and is contracted to work for Ignacio de Cardenas for six years. Another contract from Bejucal in the Mayabeque Province is also signed in Chinese this one by "Antonio" "natural del pueblo de Leo Chao en China." This is also the only document in the collection with a signature area labeled: "Firma del interpréte ó de dos personas de confianza del colono ó dos testigos." <br> <br> Formal slavery continued in Cuba until it was abolished by Spanish royal decree in 1886; it was accompanied however by a significant population working in indentured servitude. As sugar exports rose in the mid to late 18th century there was a dramatic increase in the need for enslaved workers. "One of the explicit goals of Spanish reformist policy in the last third of the eighteenth century became the need to emulate other European nations' success with slave plantation development in the Caribbean. Partly because of this slave-based coffee and sugar estates sprang up in increasing numbers in portions of Cuba especially around Havana Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico. An expanded slave trade was a necessary condition of such growth. In Cuba alone approximately seventy thousand slaves were imported between 1763 and 1792 and another three hundred twenty-five thousand were brought in between 1790 and 1820.For the entire nineteenth century imports to Cuba amounted to about seven hundred thousand persons." - Drescher. <br> <br> The abolition of slavery in the British West Indies however meant that from the 1830s onward a new source of labor was necessary. It is this gap that indentured servitude filled. Unlike the earlier waves of European immigrants who travelled to the New World as indentured servants Asia was now the primary source. Between 1848 and 1874 125000 Chinese indentured servants arrived in Cuba alone - a figure outstripped only by the number who indentured themselves in California. "Some contemporaries and later historians.have condemned the servitude of the Asians as a thinly disguised revival of slavery. These critics have pointed to a variety of abuses to which the Asians were subjected both legally - with severe laws governing absenteeism vagrancy and insufficient work - and illegally in the form of harassment by vicious masters. Yet other observers have defended the system as a boon to the Asian workers. Voluntary reindenture at the end of their terms was common among the migrants suggesting that many Asians judged the system to be beneficial to them" - Drescher. <br> <br> Voluntary or not a large number of Chinese migrants were laboring in Cuba in the 19th century; for most of them these contracts are the only existing records of their work if not of their lives. Seymour Drescher & Stanley L. Engerman editors A HISTORICAL GUIDE TO WORLD SLAVERY New York 1998 pp.140-42 239-42. hardcover books
190015968Washington 1900. 9pp. Stapled as issued. Very Good. unknown books
185487325Havana: Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. 1854. First Edition. hardcover. very good. 3 folding tables. 2 vols. in one. 8vo 1/2 contemporary black morocco; tear in a table with no loss of text. Habana: Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. 1847 1854. Very good .<br/><br/> Imprenta de la Real Audiencia Pretorial por S.M. unknown books
1841WRCAM15527Havana 1841. Broadside 23 x 16 1/2 inches. Splitting on middle fold else very good. A proclamation by the Spanish military government in Cuba concerning legal tender and its circulation and providing a series of regulations for commerce and exchange. unknown books
20189560San Francisco CA: Cuba 2018. Unique. Hardcover. Fine. Minor edge wear else tight bright and unmarred. Loosely bound sheets. 8vo. np. Illus. colored plates. Unique copy. Signed by the artist. <br/><br/>Acrylic paint marker drawings on paper. Artist' shop-book used to test/design work and color schemes. A unique books of acrylic paint marker drawings of graffiti murals most of which have been executed on walls throughout the San Francisco Bay area from 2009– 2012. <br />This is an amazingly beautiful example of urban art and valuable primary research materials for African American studies calligraphy type design urban studies art history and visual art. This an unusual work as he seldom does 'women' focused typically on more political issues. Here he blends women and politics with style and flare. Also unusually he includes a small self portrait. <br />Cuba is one of the grandfathers of the San Francisco Mission School supplying both the aesthetic styles and the radical leftist politics that formed what may be the only coherent new school of American art since the Punk/graf rock art scene of the 1980s. “It was a lot of punk rock shows and stuff like that. There was always graffiti in these places and I was just like "Who is this guy I keep on seeing this guy." There was this one guy Cuba he wrote "Cuba" and it was at all the same hardcore shows in the bathroom on the door and on the street. And then I was like "What who's doing this" It was different than my idea of what graffiti was before that.” - Barry McGee in PBS’s Art of this Century 2005 <br />"We want to flex our skills and make the community look better" says the 41-year-old painter known as Cuba who has been working on walls with and without permission for more than 25 years. "It's our own form of urban renewal." -San Francisco Chronicle Monday March 7 2005 Cuba hardcover books
1930537Havana: Imp. "Ninon 1930. 24pp. Oblong quarto. Original green pictorial wrappers string-tied. Cuban Revolution stamp affixed to front cover. Pictorial souvenir of the Capitol Building in Havana which was inaugurated May 20 1929. Each image has bilingual descriptive text in English and Spanish on the verso. Images include the exterior of the building as well as specific locations within such as the Office of the President of the Senate the Reception Hall the Statue of the Republic and the Marti Library. A sticker on the front cover has a border of small Cuban flags around the text "Our Revolution is NOT Communist. Our Revolution is Humanist. The Cubans only want the right to an education the right to work the right to eat without fear the right to PEACE JUSTICE FREEDOM." Presumably affixed to this earlier souvenir after the start of the Cuban Revolution in 1953. An interesting addition to this piece of promotional literature. OCLC locates six copies. Imp. "Ninon unknown books
1813WRCAM46892Havana 1813. 1p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Moderately chipped and worn at edges. Lightly and evenly toned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good. A rare printed decree from Cuba at the beginning of the 19th century as Spanish power in the world was waning but Spain's grip on Cuba was still quite firm. This decree issued by the King on June 14 1813 and printed on September 20 announces new laws regarding the rights to vote and to be elected to hold government positions for professors and scholars from certain universities collegiums and seminars. The decree forbade these rights to the Knights of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as well as members of the four military orders of Santiago Calatrava Alcantara and Montesa. It is endorsed in manuscript with the imprint and header also written in by hand. Early Caribbean imprints are rare. unknown books
1813WRCAM46891Havana 1813. 1p. plus integral blank. Folio. Old fold lines. Moderately chipped and worn at edges. Evenly tonned. Contemporary manuscript notations. Good. A rare Havana imprint. As Spanish power in the New World was waning its grip on Cuba was threatened by domestic and foreign intruders. This decree issued by Fernando VII on June 17 1813 and printed on September 20 orders the annulment of all criminal cases. This amnesty policy extended to other areas of New Spain as well sought to placate opposition forces. It calls on all levels of government to announce and enforce the decree. It is endorsed in manuscript. unknown books
1850WRCAM51706Havana 1850. 4pp. on a bifolium 15 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Printed in three columns. Previously folded with some short separations along fold lines and a closed tear to top edge. Somewhat tanned with some dust soiling in upper portion of first leaf recto. Good plus. Bifolium printing of twenty-four directives intended to govern the operation of vessels in the port of Havana. They include provisions for the arrival and departure of ships their docking and mooring the storage of gunpowder while in port fire prevention and penalties for carrying firearms or other deadly weapons ashore. The document is printed in three columns which provide versions of the regulations in Spanish English and French. Daniel Warren mentioned here as the port officer in charge of preventing desertions and illegal transfers of men from ship to ship is also named as Havana shipping master in an 1858 letter from the American Consul Thomas Savage to the Governor of Havana included in a contemporary United States Senate report on foreign trade. "As early as 1828 Irish migrant Daniel Warren established 'a deposit for foreign sailors and artisans' in Havana providing an initial place for them to stay while looking for work"- Curry-Machado. A very rare piece of Cuban maritime ephemera with OCLC noting only one copy at the Harvard Law Library. OCLC 81408661. Curry-Machado CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY p.74. unknown books
196723401n.p.: n.p. 1967. Very good. Four photographs ranging in size from 5'' x 7'' to 7'' x 10'' approx. Various press agency stamps to versos. Paper captions mounted to versos of three photos. Slight curling and minor edgewear to photos with creasing and chipping to captions. Very good overall. <br/><br/>Press photographs with agency stamps from Keystone AGIP and United Press Photos taken around the time of the trial and imprisonment of Regis Debray in Muyupampa Bolivia. Debray a Paris-trained philosopher and former professor at the University of Havana was arrested as an associate of Che Guevara in August 1967 and sentenced to 30 years in prison; he was released in 1970 after sustained protests. <br /> <br />Photos show Debray in prison uniform on August 8th; in civilian clothes in front of a bank of microphones at an August 14 press conference following a hunger strike; walking in the prison yard escorted by an armed guard; and with his wife Elizabeth Burgos after his release. Captions all but one in French give descriptions and expanatory context. n.p. hardcover books
195934285Habana: n.p. 1959. First edition. Stapled self wrappers. A very good copy chip to corner fold throughout leaves browned but clean. 11 pp. Sm. 4to. Special issue devoted to publication of the First Agrarian Reform Law of Cuba Ley de reforma agraria signed into law on May 17 1959. It confiscated all properties over 420 hectares and re-distributed them. Prior to the enactment of this law nearly 80% of Cuban land was owned by foreign primarily American companies. In many quarters domestic and foreign the law was quite unpopular though supported by the peasantry. n.p. unknown books
1838170201838. 8pp disbound. Minor spotting. Good. unknown books
