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1890LIST110Havana: R. Testar 1890. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early 1898. The photographers Leach and Patterson of Calle San Rafael published several views of Cuba at this time mostly of bucolic scenes around Havana and its environs. The American cruiser is similar in design to the U.S.S. Maine with slight differences - two smokestacks instead of three. An excellent example with minor wear to mount and fine image. R. Testar unknown books
1902572301902. English and Spanish. English and Spanish. The U.S. Army Regulates the Railroads of Cuba Cuba. Cuba Railroad Commission. The Railroad Law Corrected Copy of the Island of Cuba and Other Provisions Related Thereto. Havana: S.n. 1902. Various paginations. Printed wrappers rear lacking some wear and creases to front cover chip to head. Toning light browning and foxing in a few places internally clean. $150. Only edition. English and Spanish. The United States assumed custodial power over Cuba under the treaty ending the Spanish-American War. Cuba gained formal independence in 1902 as the Republic of Cuba but the U.S. continued to keep troops in Cuba and retained the right to intervene in its internal and foreign affairs. During this period which lasted to 1908 with later incursions the U.S. military supervised the development of the local military and implemented several public-works projects such as a modern railroad system. The Railroad Law records the legal side of this aspect of state-building. OCLC locates 5 copies in law libraries Duke Harvard Universities of Arizona Michigan and Minnesota. unknown books
1853WRCAM54601Havana 1853. 4pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Some chipping at fore- edge slightly affecting text. Light dampstaining and tanning. About very good. An attractive Cuban pictorial letter sheet with a neatly executed third-page lithograph illustration of the port of Havana. The image depicts several small boats rowing barrels to and from a loading dock. In another small boat a plantation owner or some form of dignitary is being rowed to shore by a crew of men. On the right side of the image several larger ships lie at anchor and in the background on the shore is the fort guarding the mouth of the harbor the Morro Castle. <br> <br> The sheet is filled out by a man named Juan Fabre writing to his parents on Jan. 2 1853 advising them of his safe arrival in Havana. He talks about meeting up with a relative that he had not seen in two years and working at a shoe shop with another relative who adds a brief post script on the verso of the second leaf. Pictorial letter sheets of Cuba are quite rare on the market. unknown books
1910WRCAM55308Havana: American Photo Co. 1910. Panoramic photograph image 7 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches on sheet 10 x 49 inches. Printed caption title below image. Publisher and date written in negative at lower right corner; in the lower left corner is written: "#5 2d Regiment U.S. Atlantic Fleet Deer Point Camp Guantanamo Bay Feb. 13 1910. 'Minnesota' 'New Hampshire' 'Mississippi' 'Idaho.'" "Printed in Germany" printed below image at lower left. Some light soiling minor fading to right side of photo some rumpling from previous rolling. Very good. An impressive view of sailors and marines from the United States' Atlantic Fleet assembled on the parade grounds of Deer Point Camp Guantanamo Bay. Well over five hundred officers seamen and marines are in formation with encampments on both sides of the grounds. In the background looking out into the harbor nineteen ships are visible in the water including the four listed on the photo: MINNESOTA NEW HAMPSHIRE MISSISSIPPI and IDAHO. One camp building with a wide veranda is behind and to the left of the sailors. <br> <br> U.S. forces with their Cuban allies first occupied Guantanamo Bay in 1898 during the Spanish American War creating a forward- operating base in their effort to wrest Spanish control of the island. In 1903 the U.S. leased forty-five square miles of land and water at Guantanamo Bay from the newly- independent Cuban government and built the Deer Point Camp to support naval operations in the Caribbean. The American facilities at Guantanamo Bay are in use to this day. The American Photo Company advertised itself as "the best equipped commercial photographers in Cuba." It established a commercial network in Havana that distributed images of Cuba on a worldwide scale. <br> <br> This photo is rare. We found no records of it at auction and no copies in OCLC however the Naval History and Heritage Command lists a copy in their collections. "US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba" UA 571.45 copy of this image Washington Navy Yard D.C.: Naval History and Heritage Command Naval Heritage Foundation accessed online. American Photo Co. unknown books
196144929Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc 1961. Reprint. Octavo 21.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; xii196 with 8pp of black and white plates at center. Pinpoint wear to spine ends and corner tips else Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped lightly shelfworn with a few tiny tears to extremities. An eyewitness report and appraisal of the Cuban revolution by a Chicago Sun-Times journalist. Prentice-Hall, Inc unknown books
197232549Moscow 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 348 3pp; portraits plates. Slight external rubbing and shelfwear; corners nudged; still a solid Very Good copy. Apparently the first full-length Soviet biography of the Argentinian revolutionary martyr and hero of the Cuban Revolution well-illustrated with photographic portraits and plates. <br/><br/>According to Costa Rican investigative journalist Marjorie Ross "Lavretsky" was a pseudonym for Soviet master-spy Iosif Grigulevich who got his start as a hired hit-man against Trotskyist and Anarchist factions in the Spanish Civil War. She pegs him as the never-identied "third man" in the assassination of Leon Trotsky; and during the Cold War posing as an international coffee expert Grigulevich reputedly penetrated the highest levels of government and culture in Costa Rica Chile and Mexico during which time he was also the Kremlin's "handler" for Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Mexican painter José Siqueiros see Marjorie Ross El secreto encanto de la KGB/ The Secret Charm of the KGB: Las cinco vidas de Iosif Grigulievich/ The Five Lives of Iosif Grigulevich. San José: 2006. <br/><br/>Apparently an uncommon work at least in Western institutions; OCLC locates just one copy British Library; KVK and European Library Meta Catalog find three more Nat. Lib. Lithuania; BNF; Staatsbibliothek Berlin. unknown books
1992253366New York: Cuba Information Project 1992. 8p. 8.5x11 inches self-wraps secured by folding very good condition. Single issue of the short-lived newsletter. Two fliers laid in one titled "Legislative Update" the other titled "Organizing Resources to Help End the Caribbean Cold War from the Cuba Information Project" with a list of other publications by the Cuba Information Project and an order form. Cuba Information Project unknown books
185257744New Orleans Charleston Baltimore and Philadelphia: A.R. Orton 1852. the original wrapper was dated 1853 apparently accounting for that date being used in each of the three OCLC listings. First edition of this rather primitively printed pamphlet. 8vo. 2 11-36 pp. Portrait frontispiece three wood-engraved plates. OCLC: "Sensational and presumably fictitious account of the criminal career of Margaret C. Waldegrave probably written by the publishers" the author of several similar lurid tales in the early 1850s. Contemporary pencil inscription on verso of frontispiece "Allow one vol. / plain binding / leather back." Not in Wright "American Fiction" McDade "Annals of Murder" or Jumonville "New Orleans Imprints." OCLC locates four copies American Antiquarian Soc. New York Historical Soc. Juniata British Library; AAS also holds a prospectus broadside for the work. Some interior foxing and soiling corner of one leaf renewed not affecting text. Recent plain gray wrappers. #4698. <br/><br/> A.R. Orton hardcover books
189044157London 1890. Matted. Old tape residue on verso tiny marginal spot excellent color. 1 sheet. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Hand-colored engraving. Originally printed in "The Universal Geography" by Élisée Reclus edited by A.H. Keane published by J.S. Virtue & Co. London 1890. The image appeared in the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago Ill. 1893 item 25 of the West Indies exhibit of the Bureau of Americn Republics World's Columbian Exposition. Signed "Barklay" in the plate. unknown books
195944784New York: Hill and Wang 1959. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm; light gray cloth with titles stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 89-96pp. Hint of foxing to upper board edges else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.50 with mild wear to extremities. Novella of the Cuban Revolution by Arenal 1926-2012 who was exiled to the United States during the Batista regime and invited back to Cuba by Castro himself. "Based on an actual incident The Sun Beats Down tells how a group of young revolutionists kidnaps a famous Mexican prize fighters from the lobby of Havana's busiest hotel" from rear panel. Hill and Wang unknown books
197147663Miami: Ediciones Universal 1971. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 263pp. Light shelf wear tiny dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner of textblock else Near Fine. Account of present-day Cuba by the exiled Cuban journalist who nearly twenty-five years earlier was nominated Vice President by the Socialist Revolutionary Movement with twenty-two-year-old Enrique Ovares as President. According to the author biography on the rear cover: "Ni un sólo minuto de sa vida no está dedicado a Cuba. Nadie lo aventaja en la lucha constante contra el régimen castrista y contra los malandrines que ofenden la dignidad nacional. Ediciones Universal unknown books
198824878Santa Fe NM: Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts 1988. Softcover. VG. White wraps. Unpaginatd. 24 color 31 bw plates. Includes an exhibition checklist and a biographical chronology along with a lengthy essay by Stanley L. Cuba. Wonderful illustrations. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Santa Fe NM: Museum of Fine Arts Apr. 23 to July 10 1988 four other locations. Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
19927120Santa Fe NM: Gerald Peters Gallery 1992. VG orange label upper left. Wraps. 48 pp. 26 color. Five page essay on the artist by Stanley L. Cuba. Chronology list of selected exhibitions. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Santa Fe NM: Gerald Peters Gallery Nov. 20 1992 to Jan. 3 1993. Gerald Peters Gallery paperback books
1999200122Havana: Palcogra/Artes Graficas 1999. Pamphlet. 17p. softbound pamphlet in 7.5x5.5 inch stapled wraps; clean and sound a very good copy. Palcogra/Artes Graficas unknown books
38527Washington: Government Printing Office n. d. 1st edition presumed. ca. 1901. Black leather boards gilt stamped lettering to spine. Boards stamped in blind. Glossy marbled endpapers. All boards and spines rubbed chipped and soiled. Vol IX missing boards and spine Vol XI & I boards and spine detached from textblock Vol II boards & spine detaching. Spines and hinges loose. A few leaves and 2 unfolding maps detached soiled or chipped library "Property of Michigan Commandery Loyal Legion" blue stamping throughout volumes. A Good set. Individual volumes divers paginations within each volume. Many inserted plates of b/w images fold-out maps and charts / tables & portraits housed within all volumes. 9-5/8" x 7" <br/><br/>OCLC records 7 institutional holdings of this set. Contents as stated in front pages of Vol. I: Vol I: Personal Report of General Wood Report of Lieutenant McCoy Aide-de-Camp Financial Exhibits accompanying same. Vol II: Civil Orders and Circulars issued during 1900. Vol III: Report of the Secretary of State and Government Reports of the various Civil Governors. Vol IV: Report of the Chief Sanitary Officer Report of the Chief Surgeon of the Department Report ofthe Superintendent Department of Charities. Vol V: Report of the Secretary of Finance Report of the Treasurer of Cuba Report of the Auditor for Cuba Report of the Chief of Customs Service Report of the Director General of Posts. Vol IX: Report of the Secretary of Public Works. Vol X: Report of the Secretary of Public Works continued Report of the Special Commissioner of Railroads Report of the Chief of the Light-House Board Report of the Captain of the Port Havana. Vol XI: Report of the Chief Engineer for the Fiscal Year ending June 30 1900. Vol XII: Report of the Chief Engineer for the six months ending Dec. 31 1900. Wood born on October 9 1860 in Winchester New Hampshire graduated Harvard Medical School in 1884. After working in private practice in Boston for two years he secured a job as army assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant in January 1886. Routine successes and close relationships with political giants Wood formed a close friendship with Theodore Roosevelt and helped Roosevelt organize the 1st Volunteer Calvary Regiment for service in the Spanish-American War in May 1898 allowed for a quick advancement in his military service which eventually aroused some controversy. "Promoted to brigadier general and in December of that year he was promoted again to major general of volunteers and named military governor of Cuba. During his term in that post great strides were taken in improving internal conditions notably through the sanitation work of Maj. William C. Gorgas. Modern school police transportation and communications systems were established and a new constitution and body of laws were drawn up." Webster's American Military Biographies p. 488. In May of 1902 Wood stepped down from his executive position in order for the popularly elected President Tomas Estrada Palma to take over. "Aggressive ambitious and self-righteous Wood was not an easy man to work with; his change from medical doctor to fighting soldier and his rise from captain to brigadier general in the space of five years 1898-1903 aroused considerable distrust and hostility in and out of the army. his single-inded advocacy of the Plattsburgh Idea later to resurface as the ROTC contributed greatly to US readiness in World War I; unquestionably one of the greatest U.S. soldiers." -The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography p.807. (Government Printing Office) hardcover books
193250120Santiago de Cuba 1932. A unique album of 19 leaves of heavy black stock 7 x 5 1/2 inches with 67 mounted b&w silver photographs of varying sizes 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches - 3 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches all captioned in white ink. The album is titled and decorated in gilt on the upper cover "PHOTOGRAPHS: SOUVENIR OF SANTIAGO CUBA and tied with a cloth lace. Very good. An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude struck the city of Santiago de Cuba at dawn on 3 February 1932. Over half the buildings were destroyed or damaged and reports of the deaths range to 1500. These photographs show the destruction to the commercial and residential buildings and the Cathedral and the tents set up as temporary shelters. A few of the photographs were made by local commercial photographers just after the quake and the remainder within days. All captions in Spanish. <br/><br/> hardcover books
197724673Cuba: Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos ICAIC 1977. Poster in colors for La Ultima Cena The Last Supper 1976 Tomas Gutierrez Alea film. A77 printed in bottom left corner;. Approx. 20" x 30" size; strongly-printed screened image of candelabra color bleed-through on reverse; some edge-creasing and edge-wear; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) Paperback books
198024677Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1980. Poster in colors text in Spanish. Approx. 17 3/4" x 26 3/4" size; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
198024691Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1980. Poster in colors text in Spanish; Approx. 18 1/2" x 28" size some edge-crinkling roll-creases; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
197724689Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1977. Poster in colors text in Spanish. Also printed at bottom edge: C.P. "Evelio Rodriguez Curbelo"/Taller experimental. Approx. 20" x 30" size; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
198024687Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1980. Poster in colors text in Spanish. Approx. 20" x 30" size; crease in lower left corner; little edge-crinkling; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
197724690Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1977. Poster in colors text in Spanish; Approx. 20" x 29" size horizontal format; some edge-crinkling; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback books
196626557Havana: Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers 1966. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 33 pp. Text in French. Not dates but from 1966. Includes some grainy black and white photographs. A close to fine copy. Author not stated but from other sources we know that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez was involved. Ministeres des Affaires Etrangers paperback 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
