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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
1982631121982. Paperback. Very Good. Original wrappers. 26cm. Spanish text. <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
19015653Havana 1901. Paperback. Very Good. 116p. Original lightly worn wrapper. <br/><br/> paperback 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
