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Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
by Fuentes, Carlos [signed]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395479789
- ISBN 13
- 9780395479780
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. . Cloth-Backed Boards. Very Good/Good. 399 pp., color and b&w plates and illustrations throughout. Spine slightly cocked, crown lightly bumped. Jacket handled, edgeworn, bumped at head and heel of spine and folds. Size: Small 4to
Synopsis
As the Los Angeles Times said: "Drawing expertly on five centuries of the cultural history of Europe and the Americas, Fuentes seeks to capture the spirit of the new, vibrant, and enduring civilization [in the New World] that began in Spain." Fuentes's singular success in this remarkable endeavor has made the book a classic in its field. (A Mariner Reissue).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crane's Bill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09626
- Title
- Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
- Author
- Fuentes, Carlos [signed]
- Format/Binding
- Cloth-Backed Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395479789
- ISBN 13
- 9780395479780
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- SPANISH CONQUEST NOISBN
Terms of Sale
Crane's Bill Books
Returnable if not as described.
About the Seller
Crane's Bill Books
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Crane's Bill Books
An online source for out-of-print, unusual and hard-to-find books on a wide range of subjects. Owned and operated by Jeffrey Lee, a longtime bookseller in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.