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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>
198186364Havana Cuba: Political Publishers 1981. Presumed First Edition First printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 116 4 pages. Index. Among the topics addressed in the Index are Socioeconomic Developments Revolutionary Armed Forces Social Organizations Ministry of the Interior Union of Young Communists Communist Party Ideological Struggle Foreign Policy and Economics. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz 13 August 1926 - 25 November 2016 was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008 serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. On January 20 1981 Fidel Castro gave the closing speech at the Communist Party of Cuba's second Congress held from January 17-20. He addressed almost 150 foreign delegations representing pro-Soviet communist parties liberation movements and even some social democratic parties of the Socialist international as well as more than a million Cubans. This fact alone is a measure of the prestige which the CPC has among many political trends and working people around the world. But the economic situation in Cuba brought to light during the congress and the path which Castro is proposing to the peoples struggling against imperialism give food for thought and should lead us to question the supposedly revolutionary path which Castro claims to be defending. One of the main concerns of the congress was the economic situation in Cuba. Despite an overall situation envied by many of the peoples dominated by U.S. imperialism the main report presented by Castro revealed that the objectives of the 5-year plan adopted at the First Congress in 1975 were not attained. Economic growth reached only 4% despite an objective of 6% and the industrialization plan met with difficulties. These results are of some importance since the objectives set at the last congress were consciously modest. Given this situation the Second Congress underlined the need for increased mobilization in production and stepped up plans to implement the new system to manage the economy which was first adopted at the First Congress. At the time this system was presented as an answer to the idealist errors of the 1965-70 period when it was claimed that all forms of market economy had abruptly been eliminated. The system clearly draws inspiration from the experience of the economic reforms introduced in the U.S.S.R. by Khrushchev in the early sixties which are judged as positive. These reforms underlined the importance of "the law of value the necessity that in all enterprises including State enterprises there are buy and sell relations and that within these relations the market categories function as indispensable instruments for measuring the use we make of our productive resources. in order to decide which investments are the most advisable and to know which enterprises.work the best.". Political Publishers hardcover
1914020130Chicago / New York / Toronto / London / Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company 1914. First Edition . Illustrated Cloth. Very Good/No DJ. Photographs of Hwang Hsing Etc. 142 Pp 2 Pp Catalog At Rear. Orange Cloth Stamped In Black And White With Allegorical Design. First Edition. Clean Lightly Used No Names Or Marks Hinges Solid Light Wear With Some Loss Of Lettering And Design In Black Ink On Front Cover But All Chalk Lettering And Design Present And Strong.Previous Owner's Name On Front Free Endpaper Signs Of Bookplate Removal On Facing Pastedown. <br/> <br/> Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover
1988Q-0673397661Scott Foresman & Co 1988-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Scott Foresman & Co paperback
200054535Havana: Editorial Echevarria ca. 2000. Oblong 4to. 32 pp unpaginated. w/ 271 colour numbered Revolutionary trading cards all tipped-in including 3 for Revolutionist flags on verso front cover. Colour-illustrated coated softcovers cover art showing heroic Fidel Castro leading the revolutionaries rubbing creasing rippling to textblock still VG- copy. Facsimile souvenir of this famed piece of Cuban Revolutionary propaganda distributed free to the Cuban people originally by Felices Frutas the local canned fruit industry trying to stay afloat and appease Castro as all the countries industries and businesses were nationalized after the Revolution. Featuring the cartoon art of Capdevila this piece traces the return of the Castros from exile in Mexico as they fought capitalist exploitation the fall of Batista the bloody running battles and more all celebrating the success. Editorial Echevarria, paperback
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
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
190985268New York: n.p. 1909. Paperback. Very Good. 4 photos in the 1907 report 27 27 27p. Softcovers in original wrapper. 26 cm. Later string ties. Business card for Jose Merla Manager of Royal "M. C." Lines laid in one of the reports. n.p. paperback
19551876<p>Anuario azucarero de cubacuba year book1955.primera edicioncaratulas originaleslibro ilustrado.censo de la industria azucarera de cuba y manual nacional e internacional.con datos historicos y estadisticos de los centrales azucareros cubanos.libro muy rarocoleccionable.compilado y editado por cuba economica y financiera ex-library</p> Cuba economica y financiera hardcover
19036144Guanabacoa: Imprenta "El Progreso 1903. Good. 24;12pp. One small pamphlet in original printed wrappers plus a bifolium stitched together with four small broadside flyers. Previously folded. Some moderate creasing and wear with a few scattered short closed tears. Light dust soiling and toning. An assemblage of six individually printed poems composed in the early 20th century by obscure Cuban poet Anastasio Orozco y Etienne. The first poem "Apologia de la Caridad." is in its own wrappers and dedicated to Susan Hammond Barney the noted prison reformer Christian writer evangelist and world traveler. She is one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island and for many years was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Rhode Island. The second lengthier work titled "Otro Lamento" is printed on a bifolium and also carries religious themes. Stitched with this bifolium are four small broadside poems printed from 1901 to 1903. One of these is a tribute to President McKinley following his assassination and is dated the day of his death September 14 1901. The titles of the broadside poems in full are as follows:<br /> <br /> 1 A MacKinley sic. La Gloria Es de los Redentores.<br /> 2 El 10 de Octubre. Reminiscencia.<br /> 3 En Memoria del Pundonoroso Capitán Don Federico Capdevila.<br /> 4 Al Rev. H.B. Someillán. Su Regresso.<br /> <br /> OCLC records an 1882 work by Orozco y Etienne Emblema de las flores y de los colores en prosa y verso But not the later ephemeral works collected here. Interesting literary printing from a small newspaper press in Cuba just after the Spanish-American War. Imprenta "El Progreso unknown
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
19596594A1959. 6 Volumes. La Habana: Instituto del Libro Consejo nacional de cultura. 1959-1968. 4°. 286;152;165;154;152;198 p. Original Karton mit Rückentitel und schwarz- rotem Deckeltitel. Leicht berieben sonst gut erhalten. Original boards with title to spine and to front cover. Some rubbing good condition. Departamento Coleccion Cubana; Compilada por Marta Dulzaides Serrate y Marta Bidot Pérez etc.; Departamento coleccoin Cubana - Departamento de Seleccoin 1968. MitNamensregister. With name index.- - - ACHTUNG! Dieses Buch kann nur als PAKET verschickt werden. Portokosten bitte erfragen. ATTENTION! Due to its weight or size this book can only be sent as a PARCEL. Please ask for postage costs. hardcover
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
19284253<p>Camaguey el centro y el corazon de cubathe center and heart of cuba primera edicion cuba 1928Compilado y editado por cuba atlas company coronel j bascom jones editor gerentenueva encuadernacionconserva sus caratulas originaleslibro ilustradocon un mapa de la provinciaedicion bilingueingles y espanol.con datos historicos de la provinciadatos de negocios y sus duenosla industria azucarera y un directorio de personalidades de la provinciade sus ferrocarriles y negocios.</p> Cuba atlas company,molina y compania hardcover
191386818Havana: Rambla 1913. hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 134 pages. Slim 4to modern cloth original front wrapper bound-in. Habana: Rambla Rouza 1913. Very Good.<br/> <br/> Rambla unknown
1906ZB705570Habana: 1906-1931 passim. Tomo I 1906 Tomo III 1906 a 1908 Tomo IV 1909 a 1911 Tomo VIII 1917 a 1919 Tomo 10 1921 a 1923 Tomo XII 1925-1927 Tomo XIII Vol. I 1927 a 1929 Tomo XIII Vol. 2 1929 a 1931 only; first editions; small usually thick quartos; ex library original cloth bindings smudged and worn with one side and a few text leaves detached most hinges cracked or broken text age toned but not fragile reading copies only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Habana: hardcover
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.<br /> <br /> 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
1959015403Havana: Manzarbeitia y Compania 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Red velvet covered vintage Cuban cocktail catalog in very good condition. Covers show some shelf wear. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe quick and secure transaction. 10 years in online bookselling experience. <br/> <br/> Manzarbeitia y Compania hardcover
1916029952London: East And West Ltd.1917 1916. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 27 Pp. Orange Covers Printed In Black. Light Wear But Front Cover Neatly Detached Along Spine Thus Loose. A Few Hand Corrections Of Names And A Comment Correcting The Author's Final Statement By Reference To A Source Both By A 1962 Rhodes Scholar. <br/> <br/> East And West, Ltd.[1917?] paperback
19036457V.p. 1903. 36 postcards all completed in manuscript generally very good or better with some wear and rounded corners. <br /> <br /> A fascinating assemblage of cards written by Pre-Castro intellectuals to a Maria de Serra though a few are written to other women. It is difficult to pin down de Serra though we do know she was highly educated and very well-known and connected. It makes sense to us that she is perhaps the Maria de Serra mentioned by William Wells Brown in his important work The Rising Son or the Antecedents and advancement of the Colored Race 1874. On pg 260 Brown writes:<br /> <br /> "The free blacks in Cuba form an important element in her population and these people are found in all the professions and trades. .one of the best young ladies' academies at present existing at Havana is personally conducted by an accomplished negro woman Maria de Serra to whom many a lady of high rank owes her social and intellectual accomplishments."<br /> <br /> Further research may be fruitful in retrieving more information on this Maria de Serra.<br /> <br /> It goes without saying that the sentiments and signatures are the most appealing part of this collection. Many of the cards appear to contain original verse and all are quite legible and well preserved. Equally as lovely are the cards themselves many being of exceptional beauty as they were all chosen by artists and intellectuals. All in all a remarkable set worthy of further research. The correspondents are as follows:<br /> <br /> <br /> Diego Vicente Tejera; one of the most famous turn-of-the-century Cuban poets but also known as a short story writer orator and political activists.<br /> <p><br /> Nestor Cargonell; famous poet and writer. His son went on to become a Hollywood star.</p> <br /> <p>Conde Kostia pseudonym of Aniceto Valdivia; writer journalist poet critic lecturer dramatist founder of newspapers and Cuban diplomat.</p> <br /> <p>Rafael Maria Merchain; very influential poet and philosopher</p> <br /> <p>Enrique Fontanills; very prominent Cuban journalist.</p> <br /> <p>Florimel: great Cuban journalist writer and poet who died early in life.</p> <br /> <p>Manuel Raul Blanco Belmonte; Cuban poet.</p> <br /> <p>Ramon Meza; One of the most important Cuban writers of his time. Many of his books are considered classics and remain in print.</p> <br /> <p>Aurelio Cancio; Cuban journalist who founded "La Discusion" newspaper.</p> <br /> <p>Manuel Serafin Pichardo; one of the most popular Cuban poet of the 1900s.</p> <br /> <p>Frederico Mendes Cobos; a Cuban politician who became a a senator in 1902.</p> <br /> <p>Juan Maria Alberti: influential Cuban politician.</p> <br /> <p>Manuel Marquez Sterling; fine writer and politician.</p> <br /> <p>Jose Manuel Govin; journalist and director of the popular newspaper "El Munto"</p> <br /> <p>Cesar Cancio; Very popular Cuban poet born in St Spiritus.</p> <br /> <p>Pablo Bonachea; great Cuban journalist and director of "La Discussion" newspaper for one year.</p> <br /> <p>Jose Ernesto Trian; Cuban writer with political connections. Was ambassador to Venezuela.</p> <br /> <p>Manuel Tierso; Romantic Cuban poet</p> <br /> <p>Alvaro de la Iglesia. revered Cuban writer who penned the great "Cuban Traditions"</p> <br /> <p>Frederico Ledesma Balsunde: journalist and editor at "El Lucero."</p> <br /> <p>Fabio Fiallo; a leading Dominican writer poet and politician. He died in Cuba.</p> <br /> <p>Dulce Maria Borrero de Lujan; the most important Cuban woman writer and poet of her time.</p> <br /> <p>Frederico Hermida; author of any Cuban novels in the 1900s.</p> <br /> <p>Mariana Comas; Cuban essayist</p> <br /> <p>Joaquin Lopez Sena; renown Cuban poet and a politician from the 1900s to the 1920s.</p> <br /> <p>Eliseo Giberga; a very powerful and influential Cuban politician of the early 1900s.</p> <br /> <p>Manuek Coronado; an important Cuban journalist.</p> <br /> <p>Antonio San Miguel; Cuban writer and journalist.</p> <br /> <p>Pablo Santi Rois; Poet and respected journalist.</p> <br /> <p>Armando Celorio; One of the finest Cuban poets.</p> <br /> <p>Jose Maria Carbonell; famous Cuban poet and writer.</p> <br /> <p>Marcos Trazivark; famous Cuban writer and Musician.</p> <br /> <p>Esteban Joven; Cuban writer poet and essayist.</p> <br /> <p>Narciso de Puso; famous poet well entrenched in Cuban high society.</p> <br /> <p>Eduardo Mencis Capote; Cuban journalist popular among the elite.</p> <br /> <p>Lorenzo Frau Marsal; respected Cuban journalist</p> <br /> . 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
19656257Habana 1965. Very good. 16pp. Oblong pamphlet in original pictorial wrappers stapled. Light wear and toning at wrapper edges with a few faint creases. Internally clean. A visually rich pro-Casto and pro-Communist pamphlet that highlights the history and core activities of Cuba's Committee for the Defense of the Revolution CDR neighborhood-based civil defense organizations created by Castro in 1960 to defend the revolution and maintain social and political control at the local level. This often included activities like surveillance distribution of propaganda and vigilante justice. The pamphlet is illustrated with photos throughout and also contains a two-page spread with maps of the island and charts data and statistics about the Cuban people. It contains a year-by-year account of the Committee's achievements and activities and ends with a section concerning its relations with other countries and their visits to Cuba. The rear wrapper states that editions were published in English French and Spanish as evidenced by the trilingual title on the front cover but we find no evidence of any edition in OCLC. Scarce and with much interesting and propagandized information about Castro's local enforcers during the early years of the Communist regime. unknown
198488455Havana: Casa de las Americas 1984. First Edition. Slim quarto 23.75cm; original printed card wrappers with French flaps stapled; 16pp; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Morejon on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez and his family: "A Robert Márquez Maddie Maceo y Gaby / Con un hondo cariño familiar y suspiro de agradecimiento y un suspiro de agradecimiento / Nancy / La Habana / Sept/84." Trivial external wear and a hint of sunning to spine-fold; touch of oxidation to staples; contents fresh; Near Fine. Short collection of verse by the noted Afro-Cuban poet critic and essayist gathrering nine poems. A nice inscription connecting two prominent Caribbean literary figures. 88455. Casa de las Americas unknown
193261114Havana Cuba: Cuban Tourist Commission Printed by “Ucar Garcia & Co.†ca. 1932. 4to. 36 pp unpaginated. Printed & illustrated throughout in green black & white photo illustrations throughout graphic text illustrations in green & white. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers wraparound cover art by Conrado W. Massaguer minor bumping head of spine shelfwear still VG copy. First edition of this informative travel brochure touting the joys of visiting Cuba touting the historic cathedral square the lush countryside the offerings of sugar coffee and tobacco as well as the beaches hunting sport fishing night life and The Rumba. Massaguer 1889-1965 was an influential Cuban artist whose modernist look dominated magazines catalogues and ads across Latin America and also was a founding member of the Grupo Minorista. Cuban Tourist Commission, Printed by “Ucar Garcia & Co.,†paperback
198385035Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1983. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 23.5cm; pictorial cloth-covered boards; x34-251252-254pp. This copy is from the library of to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Marquez with his ink markings and notations throughout the text and inscribed to him by the author on the title page: "To Robert / as a token of my highest esteem and my admiration for your work / Keith." Base of spine gently nudged light wear to extremities with a few dog-eared pages; Very Good and sound without dustjacket as issued. <br /> <br /> Scholarly work on the writings of Nicolás Guillén 1902-1989 with a particularly generous inscription to Marquez who has written extensively on Guillén and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. A nice association linking two Guillén scholars. Uncommon inscribed. University of Toronto Press unknown
