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1980157147La Habana: Ministerio de Cultura 1980. First edition presumed. Paperback. Used; Very Good. 4to large wrps 478 p. index boards. Comprehensive annotated bibliography of Cuban periodical publications. Includes title subject and author indices. Ministerio de Cultura paperback
194924117La Habana: Asociación de Técnicos Azucareros de Cuba 1949.- XIX405 p. 6 h.: Ilustraciones estados y tablas una grande plegada; 4º mayor 258 x 173 cm; Cartulina Ed.- RARO. Cubierta posterior algo manchada. Por lo demás en perfecto estado. ECONOMÃA IBEROAMERICANA Y DERECHO FISCAL MERCANTIL FINANCIERO Y DEL TRABAJO Libro en español Asociación de Técnicos Azucareros de Cuba paperback
192766008Richmond VA: Williams Printing Co 1927. First Edition. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Williams Printing Co unknown
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
199313842Golden CO: Fulcrum Publishing Published in cooperation with the Denver Public Library. Fine hardcover copy with dustjacket 146 pp 1 pp ack 2 pp appreciation 78 4/C illustrations text throughout 2 pp bibliography. . Fine Copy. Hardcover. 1993. Fulcrum Publishing Published in cooperation with the Denver Public Library hardcover
19161702080014Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras Cuba 1/1/1916. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. Volume 1 & 2 1916-1917. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light university library stamps and markings. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras (Cuba) hardcover
1938Q988Made by hand 1938-1940. Very good. Cord bound hardcover scrap book 14.5 x 12.5 inches. With ephemera from two trips: the first to Europe Ireland Scotland and France in August 1938 sailing from Boston to Cobh County Cork Ireland aboard the S. S. California ship operated by Anchor Line. 7 leaves of ephemera from Dublin Edinburgh Paris and Reims. Used on both sides the first 5 leaves are split at the gutter because of the fragility of the paper but remain loosely inserted. The second trip chronicled is to Cuba in September-October 1940 with Clyde-Mallory Lines sailing from Miami to Havana aboard the "Shawnee" first class. Ephemera from the trips include luggage tags hotel bills postcards telegrams theater tickets programs menus etc. There's also a guide to Esperanto etc and two unusual but beautiful crepe paper items possibly hats. The original owner's surname has been redacted throughout but was a First-Class traveler from Massachusetts. Nice collection. Shipping for this item will be charged at-cost. <br/><br/> Made by hand hardcover
19459277New York New York and Havana Cuba 1945. <br /> <br /> William John Mantz Jr. worked as an engineer and assistant manager for the West Indies Sugar Corporation for 10 years traveling back and forth frequently between his home in Tarrytown New York and the sugar plantations in Havana Cuba. This archive contains travel materials government documents and other personal artifacts pertaining to his time in Cuba and concerning his status with the draft during World War II. Most correspondence in original postmarked envelope.<br /> <br /> Included:<br /> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- One black and white photograph of Bill and Marjorie Mantz</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Birth certificate copy with raised seal for Bill Mantz dated January 1938 </p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Two personal letters from Marjorie to Bill in 1938 that mention her recent travels to visit him in Cuba</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Cuban drivers license for Bill dated January 1940 with photo attached and stamped by the police department</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Cuban Foreign Identification Card for Marjorie dated June 1940 with receipt and three copies of her photo attached</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Receipt for surrendered passport in Miami Florida December 1940</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Letter from Bill's sister Margie in May 1942 forwarding paperwork from Selective Services</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Two Cuban tax withholding documents from May/July 1942</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Letter from Bill in Spanish requesting the renewal of Marjorie's Foreigner's Identification card in May 1943 and follow up letter to a different recipient in English dated June 1943 regarding missing documents</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Three permits from Selective Services for to depart from the United States 1943-1945 plus one duplicate</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Four pieces of correspondence from the American Consulate in Cuba dated December 1944 - April 1945 regarding passports medical exams and registering the Mantz’s infant daughter</p> <br /> <p dir="ltr">- Sixteen letters and other correspondence between Bill his boss Arthur Kirstein and Selective Services mostly regarding Bill’s draft status but also some sugar industry business such as frequent air travel to Havana trains and fuel options and US politics after Truman assumed the presidency.</p> <br /> . unknown
197488452Havana: Casa de las Americas 1974. First Edition. First Impression one of 18000 copies. Narrow octavo 22.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 67-4293pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillen on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez: "Para Roberto Márquez / con el fraternal cariño de Nicolas / La Habana Feb. 74." Signed directly beneath by an unknown figure and below that by Afro-Cuban poet and journalist Marcelino Arozarena 1912-1996. The opposing page is inscribed for Márquez in verse with a small drawing by an undetermined poet signed "David Feb.74." The verso of the half-title page is warmly inscribed by Cuban poet and critic Nancy Morejón who has written the foreword to this volume: "Para mi queridísimo Roberto Marquez / la admiracion y el cariño immenso de Nancy / La Habana / 19 de feb. de 1974." Directly beneath this is another warm year of publication inscription by an underemined individual. This volume has been extensively marked-up by Márquez whose contribution "Introducción a Guillén" appears on pp.127-138. Some wear to extremities a few nicks and tears to spine ends with some creases to wrappers; Very Good. <br /> <br /> A key volume of critical texts on Guillén 1902-1989 the national poet of Cuba by many of his contemporaries like Mirta Aguirre Angel Augier Roberto Fernández Retamar Nancy Morejón Alejo Carpentier Pablo Neruda Ciro Alegría and others. This copy bears a number of contemporary inscriptions to Márquez a Guillén scholar who has written extensively on his work and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. 88452. Casa de las Americas unknown
1930RF 565<p><b><i>17 original photos from La Habana.</i></b><br /></p><p>8vo. 17 photographs from Havana. Photographs are 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm.</p><p>Each photograph bears an ink handwritten description across the top: Prado & Morro Castle; Havana Skyline; Prado & Capitol; Residential Palace; El Morro no inscription; Race Track Havana; Prado from the Capitol; Prado from the Capitol another view Maine Monument; Capitol Grounds; Tropical Beer Garden; Main Monument & National Hotel Havana; Race Track another view; National Theatre and Capitol. Set of photographs of Havana from the 1920s 1930s. The inscriptions on each photograph are in English. Unidentified photographer. Interesting Cuban photographici conography. O02G000074 RF 565 X99X001603</p>
190228399New York: Harper's 1902. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. Content on the Russo-Japanese & Spanish American War; Automobiling early cars playing polo!; Teddy Roosevelt Chinese rugby cartoon Blackwell Island Bridge Thomas Nast cartoon Henley regatta. Half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly with woodblock illustrations throughout.<br /> <br /> Color supplements were included in the Christmas issue. Chinese playing rugby cartoon p1582; US Naval Academy p1498; Blackwell Island Bridge p1308; Wall Street p1180; Thomas Nast p1972. <br /> <br /> Folio 1155pp. Weekly issues bound up into a large single volume with 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Leather spine chipped cracked at hinge binding firm internally very clean. Harper's hardcover
19612137Various places in Florida Mexico Cuba & Spain 1961. About very good. 138 original prints each 8 x 10 inches; mostly large format images with twelve contact sheet containing multiple smaller images and including several duplicates. Light wear at edges; slight curling. Occasional patches of scuffing or soiling. Scattered manuscript annotations and ink stamps on blank versos of photographs. An interesting aggregation of approximately 150 unique professional images that depict the travels and activities of the Latin American Fiesta Association of Tampa Florida. The cultural heritage group was founded in 1940 and flourished from the late 1940s to the 1980s and organized or participated in local social events had an annual ball and traveled widely across Latin America. The photographs here date from 1949 to the early 1960s and document the travels of association members to Spain Mexico and Cuba. They attended numerous events entertainments dinners and other social gatherings as well as made visits to attractions and local cultural clubs. In Spain and Cuba their trips seem to have been limited to Madrid and Havana respectively and there are some interesting series of travel images in Cuba from just prior to the Revolution.<br /> <br /> The group seems to have made multiple trips to Mexico and traveled somewhat more widely. Scattered images show the activities of the association in Florida as well and many of the prints have contemporary manuscript captions and ink stamps of local photographers and photography studios on the versos. In all a wide-ranging and quite engaging group of large photographs that document this midcentury Latin American social club in Florida. unknown
198383069Havana: S.i. 1983. Original illustrated poster with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in four colors on white stock measuring 51cm x 76.25cm 20 1/8" x 30". Mild handling to extremities ele a bright Fine copy unbacked. Striking poster designed by Concepción Robinson Mendoza aka. "Coni" for Victor Cassaus's 1983 documentary Que Levante la Mano la Guitarra centered around Cuban musician and folk singer Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. 83069. S.i. unknown
198083250Havana: OSPAAAL 1980. Original lithographed poster with text and images offset printed in colors on white stock measuring 51cm x 75cm 20" x 29.5". Pinholes to corners light wear and several tiny tears and creases to extremities with paper around upper left margin slightly abraded and a few faint marks and stains on verso; Very Good. Attractive poster designed by Cuban artist Rafael Enríquez Vega b.1947 calling for an international day of solidarity with the people of Cuba. The central image features a large Cuban flag and an American hand holding a revolver with the barrel pointed at itself. 83250. OSPAAAL unknown
1930560Havana Cuba: American Express Co et al. 1930. Small archive of six items from a trip in the early years of the 1930s all good or better. Items include: One forty page brochure in decorated and printed card stock wrappers "CUBA The Pearl of the Antilles" with 16 itineraries and copious pictorial advertisements; two contemporary color picture postcards unused; small brochure folded to make four pages offering visits to "Algibe" Farm the "most typical Cuban Farm in the vicinity of Havana" where you are invited to see how crops are grown attend "Thrilling Cock-Fights at all hours" and "Royal Palm Climbing Exhibitions." Finally a fan-folded invitation to "Buy where Cubans buy" at La Isla de Cuba with an accompanying map 21 x 14 in. dated 1928 of the entire downtown Havana shopping district folded into twelve 7 x 3.75 in. panels with breaks at folds see photo. All good or better with nicks small closed tears and a few smudges. American Express Co, et al. unknown
194755153Havana: Cuban Tourist Commission 1947. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 22 by 28 inches unfolded. Foxed overall with some expected toning at the creases else very good and crisp. <br/><br/> Cuban Tourist Commission paperback
195534840Havana Cuba: The Tropicana circa 1955. 4 volumes. Original Printing. Original velour cover illustrated by hand using the technique of collage in yellow green blue pink and black and illustrated throughout with photographs designs and decorations the three brochures also in colour. Large 4to 28 x 23 cm Original velour with collage decorations to the cover the brochures of paper over board all coloured. 24 pages with numerous illustrations and 2 hand-made excerpts that allow a view of the following page. The large format brochure also includes: 1. 'Our Night at Tropicana. Havana's Fabulous Night Club & Casino' illustrated folder to insert a photograph here without photo. 2. The same with an original photograph of a party hand-dated 'Marzo 1962' and inscribed 'Boda de Cora y Vicente' with the names of the guests. The envelope is rubbed a bit. 3. The same in a different design with a photograph showing a lady in an evening dress. Her companion has been cropped from the photograph. Two additional postcards are provided here one showing the poolo of the Cabana Sun Club the other shows Calle Obispo in Havana in an older photograph. A fine copy of the 'This is Tropicana' cover and contents the brochures with a bit of age or evidence of use. VERY SCARCE. A beautiful collection from one of the most famous nightclubs of the 1950's. In 1950 Martin Fox bought Villa Mina and commissioned architect Max E. Borges to carry out the spectacular renovation with parabolic concrete arches and glass walls to roof the stage. On March 15 1952 the new Arcos de Cristal cabaret building was opened. Artists who performed at the Tropicana included star such as Nat King Cole and Josephine Baker and visitors included Edith Piaf Ernest Hemingway Jimmy Durante and Marlon Brando. Shortly after the revolution in 1959 the Tropicana like other casinos and nightclubs was nationalized. The Tropicana unknown
19624785Various locations in Cuba Europe and the United States 1962. Very good. 113 leaves of scrapbook cardstock illustrated with 388 photographs chiefly silver gelatin photographs several colored or in color in mounting corners. Most captioned in Spanish. Square folio. Contemporary brown cloth spring-loaded spine front cover stamped "CUBA." Joints split but holding well moderate rubbing and dust-soiling. Light foxing handful of images lacking some images slightly browned or with mild edge wear. An extensively-annotated vernacular family photograph album centering on the German-Cuban Coyula-Moeller family picturing their lives family members travels and more in Cuba the United States Germany and other locations in Europe mainly during the 1920s and '30s. The album was likely compiled by Gerardo Coyula y Moeller who was born in the early-1920s and attended Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg in the late-1930s. The album includes numerous pictures of Coyula y Moeller as a toddler young man and teenager traveling with his mother and various family members attending school and more with numerous photographs featuring the family and their environs in Cuba and Germany. The caption to a family photograph indicates that the Coyula family were shareholders in the German Club "Club Aleman" in Havana from 1939 to 1960. Other family members identified through the profuse captions include Aunt Merci Aunt Hortensia Uncle Gustavo Estela grandfather Enrique Moeller grandmother Rosa Gelpi and others.<br /> <br /> The album also contains several photographs relating to the Nazi Party in Germany before the war as well as two photographs with captions poignantly noting one young man who would die in a concentration camp in Germany. One of the latter examples pictures a young man named Gerd Wolf with the Spanish caption translated as "Rabbi Fidellis eating bananas - He was with the Resistance and died in the Dachau concentration camp." The Coyula y Moeller family were apparently shareholders in a German casino in Cuba. Notably an antecedent of the family was apparently friends with a German individual who is documented as later helping usher Hitler into power and the album records two additional Nazi individuals who "visited grandfather's house" and "fled to Brazil" to escape the consequences of their war crimes. Yet another family photograph shows a group of adults posed in a garden with the caption reading: "Nuestro amigo: Resulto ser Himmler" "Our friend: turned out to be Himmler". Indeed the image shows the man third from right is clearly Heinrich Himmler.<br /> <br /> In addition to pictures of the family at home in Cuba the album captures them in various locations in Germany mainly Bonn Hamburg and the aforementioned Bad Godesberg. The family also traveled to New York in the United States and Southampton England among other places with several photographs documenting their travels in each location. The album is also replete with identified photographs of a legion of family friends and acquaintances providing ample opportunity for deeper research into the connections within the family but also to the family's larger community. According to a previous owner the album came out of the noted Weber family in Cuba. An exceptional and well-preserved collection presenting the lives of this noted German-Cuban family. unknown
19643764Toronto: Fair Play for Cuba Committee Amis du Peuple Cubain 1964. First Edition First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 36. 12mo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated twice-stapled card covers. No detectable flaws contents remain bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; near fine. Contents include: Al Purdy writes on his visit; Unionists visit to Canada; Amigos de Cuba; Hurricaine Relief Fund; Poem to the Sailors on the "Oxford"; Portion of Castro's May Day Speech and much else. Scarce in commerce. <br/><br/>"On June 30th the first group of Canadian students will leave from Eastern Canada for Cuba where they will spend from six to eight weeks working with and talking to Cubans from all walks of life. The second group leaves on July 3rd from points west of Winnipeg and will join up in Mexico City before proceeding to Havana. A total of 45 students will participate in the program and will be led by Captain David Middleton a retired Canadian army officer. The group are representative of Canadian university students from Fredericton and Halifax on the east coast to Victoria on the west coast. Th students represent fifteen campuses in eight provinces and courses in engineering science accountancy medicine political science philosophy liberal arts psychology sociology law school teaching library and theology. Some of the students are in post-graduate studies. The objective of the tour is two-fold: to work as a group on some project or projects alongside Cubans thereby creating a bond of friendship leading to a better understanding between Cubans and Canadians and secondly to provide an opportunity for the group to assess the Cuban experiment in social reconstruction." Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Amis du Peuple Cubain unknown
196912628Havana: Union de Jovenas Comunistas 1969. Seven newspapers each between 6 and 8pp. on newsprint. Illustrated. Modest toning some edge wear and closed tears some bumped or dog-eared corners. Overall very good. A small but instant collection of an informative newspaper from Communist Cuba published daily by the youth wing of the Party. The issues are all dated in January 1969 specifically from January 11 15 22 28 29 30 and 31. The issues contain domestic and international reporting along with topics relevant to revolutionary young people. Interestingly one issue contains a translated interview with Hollywood legend Marlon Brando. The paper also prints a legion of photographs cultural event listings classifieds baseball statistics and updates cartoons and more. Union de Jovenas Comunistas unknown
19164158Havana 1916. Very good. Broadside printed on light orange silk approximately 16.25 x 9 inches. Minor edge wear one small tear near bottom right. A seemingly unrecorded silk broadside issued by the Cuba-American Jockey Club Company advertising the lineup of horses and the schedule for a series of five races during Dia de las Damas "Ladies Day" at the Oriental Park racetrack in Marianao Havana in 1916. In addition the top of the broadside is printed with small oval- and diamond-shaped portraits picturing the nine officers of the club who are identified by name and their position within the club. Below these portraits is a listing of fourteen officers of the club. The Oriental Park Racetrack "Parque Oriental" opened in 1915 for winter racing which began in November and lasted into March each year. The racetrack was the only thoroughbred track in Cuba until Fidel Castro practically shut it down after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The present broadside is a visual reminder of the influx of American business interests in Cuba in the early 20th century. No copies reported in OCLC. unknown
19085578Havana: Moises V. Codina 1908. Good plus. Seven broadsides each approximately 22 x 7.25 inches plus one double bill measuring about 22 x 15 inches. One broadside printed in red and black. Previously folded. Scattered shallow tears from edges not affecting text with some tape repairs on blank versos. A group of eight playbills spanning eight consecutive days in July 1908 that advertise performances and events at the Gran Teatro Payret in Havana. The theater was built by its namesake Jaoquin Payret in 1877 on a corner across from the Villanueva Railway Station now the Capitolio Nacional de la Habana and initially focused on opera and high-class performing arts to compete directly with other established theaters in the Cuban capital. The building had five floors and a capacity of 2300 but the upper balconies collapsed in 1882 after which the theater changed hands and began to showcase more varied popular offerings.<br /> <br /> These playbills publicize an array of performers including the ballet dancer Millas; a cabaret artist Eline Oreo; a magician and telepath Sidney Richards; Troupe Montrose a group of acrobats an Italian dance troupe Les Casettas; two clowns named Pito and Chocolate; and many others. Notably the programming also includes a heavy rotation of short and feature films such as La Electricidad Liquida 1907; El Inagarrables Pick Pocket 1908; Victima de la Ciencia 1907; En Chine: Voyage sur le Canal Impérial 1908; and Venganza del Dervich 1907. The playbill for Thursday July 16 with its headline and date in red proclaims the debut of Trouppe Merodia a seven-person group of acrobats and cyclists as well as the Cuban premiere of a film titled La Caza de Oso The Bear Hunt.<br /> <br /> The theater was closed by hurricane damage in 1926 but reopened as a cinema in 1935 and in the following years became known as the "Cathedral of Spanish Cinema." The building again fell into disuse and disrepair in the decades following the Cuban Revolution but was restored in 2008. A very interesting group that gives a great sense of day-to-day operations at one of Cuba's most important and historic theaters. Moises V. Codina unknown
19235672Havana 1923. Fair. 14pp. Original wrappers rear cover lacking. Contemporary ink notation to front cover reinforced at spine with later paper tanned. Text guillotined; leaves silked some chipping and wear at edges. A rare work arguing against railroad consolidation in Cuba and a victim of the New York Public Library's microfilming project. The subtitle reads "Exposicion que dirige al Congreso la Asociacion de Hacendados y Colonos." We locate only the microfilm copy at NYPL in OCLC no physical copies. unknown
19105377N.p. 1910. Very good. 11pp. of folio typescript totaling around 3000 words with a handful of manuscript corrections. Old folds minor marginal stains from old paper clips. An anonymously-written typescript promotional and business prospectus touting the Isle of Pines Isla de la Juventud off the southern coast of Cuba in the West Indies. The author writes of the many advantages of the Isle of Pines noting "This interesting little island is situated about 50 miles south of Cuba in the Caribbean Sea" with a population of "well-to-do Americans who own about 95% of the island and are after the other 5%." The author also states that "the laborers are mostly 'Pineros' or Isle of Pines people and are very efficient. They are kind and courteous and seem well pleased with the present situation. They are paid from $1.00 to $1.50 per day according to the grade of work." More of the usual language encouraging emigration to the island follows describing the agriculture climate soil government business environment the "old Spanish cities on the island" and more along with several pages of cost estimates for creating a working ten-acre fruit grove. The anonymous author mentions that he and his partner in Nueva Gerona J.A. Miller bought forty acres in Cuchilla Alta or Santa Ana Estates at $40 per acre from H.R. Leland "the sole representative in the United States." The author states he has given up his profession as an engineer in order to devote his time and energy to building a grapefruit grove and pineapple farm and to get others interested in investing with him "We will organize a Development Company with a Citrus Fruit Expert at its head.". He concludes by reiterating that "the country itself is a delightful place to live.raises a superior quality of fruit" and he is glad he "learned about it in time to enable us to enjoy all the benefits of the 'Great Ground Floor.' unknown
1916100842<p>Tall 8vo stiff paper stapled illustrated some in color 54 pp. Lacks wrappers and last page but the rest of the pamphlet including the double page map of Cuba is present a few small chips some minor aging and soiling. The 9 x 21 folding map of Cuba features its railroads. There are two attractive color photographs and seven full page black and white photographs illustrating the charms of Cuba. Smaller photos including one of a sleeping car are included in the text. A rail schedule some facts about Cuba and a few advertisements for hotels and cruise lines are also included.</p> Cuba Railroad Company,