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1988003367Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. xvi 2 346 2 pp. Bound in full black cloth title in gilt on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. Very Good some soiling to edges of text block including a 2" blue stain to lower fore edge internally clean and tight in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with wear to extremities and similar blue stain to lower fore edge of rear cover. <br/><br/> Wesleyan University Press hardcover
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
1931D1703La Habana 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Five issues all but the last with their original wraps bound in one volume leather-backed marbled paper over boards -- a bit scuffed and bumped along the edges. Includes: Ano I. No. 1; Febrero 15 1931 / Ano I. No. 2; Febrero 22 1931 / Ano I. No. 3; Marzo 1 1931 / Ano I. No. 4; Marzo 8 1931 / Ano I. No. 5; Marzo 15 1931. The last issue No. 5. does not have the original front cover otherwise all original illustrated wraps are present. All a bit browned as expected and brittle with the occasional small marginal tear but perfectly good reading copies complete and nicely preserving the text illustrations sheet music and ads. Santa Clara bookseller's ticket on front paste-down. A wonderful and uncommon look at Cuba. <br/><br/> hardcover
19186299Havana 1918. Hardcover. Good. Second half of the year 1918 6 issues of the important Cuban monthly magazine Social which was published from 1916-1938. Cover art by editor and famed Cuban caricaturist Conrado Massaguer. A rare and early section of the publication. A fascinating glimpse into Cuba at this time. Filled with great period art and advertisements black and white photographs and articles. Some scattered foxing 1st cover of 6 much worse than the others staining and wear varies from issue to issue. Bound together in period cloth with floral pattern worn. <br/><br/> hardcover
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
1954023286London: The Author 1954. Book. Illus. by Ivan Cuba. Near Fine. Pictorial Cover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 12p. The Author Paperback
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
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
19013191Havana 1901. About very good. Broadside 12.5 x 9 inches. Light wear and soiling. Backed with tissue. Broadside outlining the celebrations planned for the adoption of the Cuban Constitution of 1901 following the eviction of both Spain and the United States from the country. Four days of celebrations were planned for May 19 20 21 and 22. Events including the singing of the National Anthem orchestral concerts fireworks dancing and other diversions. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC. An ephemeral piece commemorating Cuban independence. unknown
1976400013-LA9La Habana : Partido comunista Cuba 1976. Hardcover. Good. 3 uniform gilt lettered white faux leather volumes with dust jackets illustrated with numeroyus photographs in b/w pictorial board slipcase 4to. La Habana : Partido comunista Cuba hardcover
1920224751920. Cuba Havana landmarks and urban development real photo post card archive ca. 1920s-1940s. 11 color and sepia real photo postcards of iconic civic and cultural architecture in Havana Cuba. Each measure 4" x 6". Many with captions identifying the locations in the negative or en verso with some printed in English and others in Spanish signaling their intended audience of both locals and foreign tourists. A compelling photo archive documenting early 20th-century Havana's architectural and political aspirations this collection showcases prominent landmarks that symbolized Cuba's nationalist identity international cosmopolitanism and American-influenced modernization in the decades between independence from Spain and the Cuban Revolution. The archive includes silver gelatin and printed color views of the National Theatre Cuba's Capitol Building Central Railway Station Gran Casino Nacional National University and the grand gateway of Havana's Colón Cemetery. Other views depict Paseo de Martí one of Havana's most iconic boulevards lined with vintage American cars and flanked by ornate colonial facades and new Art Deco-style hotels evidence of the influx of U.S. capital and tourism during the Batista era. Havana in this period was rapidly transforming into a showcase city of the Caribbean its urban core reflecting both Spanish colonial heritage and American urban planning models. The presence of monumental buildings like El Capitolio constructed between 1926 and 1929 and modeled after the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. points to Cuba's alignment with American political aesthetics and aspirations toward modern statehood. Similarly the University and Gran Casino Nacional represent both the intellectual elite and leisure-class investment that typified pre-revolutionary Cuban society. The mixture of European and U.S. architectural influences ranging from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco speaks to the layered colonial legacy and new economic dependency forged during the Platt Amendment era. Some mild edge wear. One card with a small corner crease others clean. Overall very good condition. This archive captures Havana in the midst of dramatic urban renewal and internationalization before the massive ruptures brought on by the 1959 revolution. unknown
19153017<p>Portafolio azucarero de la industria azucarera de cuba 1912-1914 primera edicion libreria e imprenta la moderna poesia 1915 esta obra ha sido realizada siendo presidente de la republica de cuba dr mario garcia menocal y secretario de agriculturacomercio y trabajo el general emilio nunez caratulas originalesrestauradasgran libro ilustrado 424 pgs mas graficos libro con peso de 13 librascon 16 cm de largo por 12.5 cm de anchoes una obra super rarade colecciondonde se describen todos los centrales azucareros de cubacon fotos y sus caracteristicas publicada en el ano 1915 por la libreria e imprenta la moderna poesiaes una de las rarezas de la bibliografia cubana</p> Libreria e imprenta la moderna poesia hardcover
198088457Mexico City: Difusion Cultural Departamiento de Humanidades / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1980. First Edition. First Impression one of 2000 copies. Small octavo 18cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 89-62pp. With a full-page inscription from Morejon to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez and his wife signed and dated in Havana 4 September 1981." Mild surface wear else a fresh very Near Fine copy. A collection of verse by the noted Afro-Cuban poet selected and edited by Mexican poet and journalist Efraín Huerta Roma 1914-1982. A nice inscription connecting two prominent Caribbean literary figures. 88457. Difusion Cultural Departamiento de Humanidades / Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 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
1906List3021La Habana Province Republic of Cuba 1906. Twenty-two photographs measuring 7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches mounted on heavy cardstock measuring 10 x 12 inches. Photos numbered and dated on negative. In album embossed with “Havana Central Railroad Co./ Progress Photographs/ GUANAJAYâ€. Photos with fine contrast and some wear; mounts with minor damage slightly warped with some detached from binding. Overall excellent. Havana Central Railroad Company was an American company formed in April 1905. It opened two electric tram lines—Havana to Guanajay in 1906 and Havana to Güines in 1907—before it was bought by the English company United Railways following the Panic of 1907. Offered here is a photo album showing the construction of the Guanajay line. The photographs show laborers assisted by horse-drawn carts digging culverts laying tracks and erecting bridges and buildings.<br /> <br /> This project came on the heels of the successful efforts of the Cuba Company another railroad company to make the emerging Cuban Republic amenable to American business.They did so first by using ‘revocable permits’ which could ostensibly be revoked by the new government when it was formed to circumvent the Foraker Amendment prohibiting concessions to American companies by the US’s military government; and second by using their close relationships to several members of the Cuban Constitutional Convention to include a law allowing irrevocable permits.1 These along with the Platt Amendment and Governor Leonard Wood’s General Railway Law led to what would amount to domination by US interests in Cuba particularly but not exclusively in the railroad industry.2<br /> <br /> Of interest to scholars of the early Republic of Cuba especially the history of US businesses in the country.<br /> <br /> 1 Juan C. Santamarina “The Cuba Company and the Expansion of American Business in Cuba 1898–1915†The Business History Review 74 no. 1 Spring 2000: 41–83.<br /> 2 Louis A. Pérez Jr. “Insurrection Intervention and the Transformation of Land Tenure Systems in Cuba 1895–1902†Hispanic American Historical Review 65 no. 2 1985: 229–254. unknown
1980211912Havana: Editorial Orbe 1980. hardcover. very good-. Many Illus. some in color. Square 8vo pictorial cloth rubbed. La Habana: Editorial Orbe 1980.<br/> <br/> Profiles of Cuban culture for the year 1978. Text in Spanish.<br/> <br/> Editorial Orbe 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
20001-9875002186Manantial 2000. Paperback. New. Spanish language. 8.46x5.51x0.79 inches. Manantial paperback
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
1985020353Taipei 1985. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Color Plates Throughout. 58 Pp Catalog All Text In Chinese. 11" Tall. Signed And Dated By The Artist. He Devoted Himself To Traditional And Contemporary Ink Painting Inherited The Essence Of Chinese Millennium Painting And Calligraphy And Opened Up Opportunities For The Reform Of Contemporary Ink Painting Which Set A Paradigm For New Ink Painting In The World Of Chinese Art For This Century. He Taught In Taiwan For Half A Century And Cultivated Countless Art Students. His Influence Is Profound. <br/> <br/> paperback
1994170268Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. Bound in at the rear of the script are nine pages relating to revisions to the script. <br /> <br /> US Army doctors race to find the cure to a deadly virus quickly spreading from Africa to North America by way of a smuggled capuchin monkey. <br /> <br /> Shot on location in California and Hawaii. <br /> <br /> Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 13 1994 noted as REVISION POLISH with credits for screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool and revision credits for uncredited screenwriter Ted Tally. 174 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between August 7 and 17 1994. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1995049294KBA Books 1995. Book. Fair. Paperback. 1st Printing. Worn copy with yellow highlighting on 3 pages upper edge of title page clipped presumably to remove owner name faint dampstain to upper corners. 57-page booklet. KBA Books Paperback
195872030Havana: Santos Foto ca. 1958. Original Cuban Revolution era photograph showing a seated group of five people. 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. In the center is a soldier very much trying to look like Che Guevara with a full beard and mustache in army cloths and hat and holding a rifle. Seated on either side of him are two couples all in street clothes and each of the men is holding a rifle. The guns appear to be Thompson M1 A1s which would place this photograph at the beginning of the Revolution before Soviet weapons were commonplace. The photographer Santos Foto Habana is identified in the plate and stamped on the rear. Ironically this picture is laid into a Empire Room Waldorf Astoria printed folder. It should be noted that Che Guevara once worked as a dishwasher at the Waldorf so this pairing is probably intentional. Santos Foto hardcover
1940026740Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1940. First Penguin Edition First Printing . Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. First Penguin printing 1940 #310. From the collection of Ian Ballantine who was the American representative of Penguin Books prior to his founding of Ballantine Books in 1952. Each book from the Ballantine collection comes with a loose card indicating it is from the library of Ian and Betty Ballantine. Book has traces of wear at a few places on spine edges no other wear no fading but has a 1/2 tear at foredge of front cover with associated wrinkling lines extending 2" up the cover. <br/> <br/> Penguin Books unknown
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