The CIA's War Against Cuba by Luis Morena, José and Rafael Calcines - 1988

xii+436+[6] pages. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and embossed decorative stamp to covers. Preface by W H Prescott. From the library of George M Foster. First British edition.She was— it is no exaggeration— Mexico's Tocqueville, but if that ploddingly perceptive Frenchman's Democracy in America is one great boiled sausage of seriousness, Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico is a confection as strange and marvelous as Mexico itself. Stranger still in matters of (if literary) haute cuisine: the author was Scottish, née Frances Erskine Inglis. She married the Spanish diplomat Angel Calderón de la Barca in 1838; one year later they sailed for Mexico, where he was to serve as Spain's first ambassador to its still very raw and violent ex-colony. Revolutions, earthquakes, exotic flowers and snow-capped volcanoes: rich ingredients for even the most burn-the-toast kind of chronicler. But Calderón de la Barca is shrewd and skilled as any novelist at stirring in the… Read More

This is a very nice copy of the First Edition of a scarce detailed history of Paraguay. On the front endsheet is a handwritten inscription by the author to a friend, signed and dated by the author.

México, Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2010.4o mayor, 2 vol. 2066 pp. Encuadernación rígida del editor con camisa. Edición facsimilar de 1908.Pocas obras han tenido tal resonancia e incidencia histórica inmediata como la que aquí nos ocupa. A más de un siglo de distancia, el libro de don Francisco I. Madero conserva rigurosa vigencia; es más, todos esos años de impulsos revolucionarios acrecientan su valor testimonial. Más allá de su importancia histórica, La sucesión presidencial en 1910 se ha convertido en referente a partir de la cual se puede sopesar lo conseguido y lo que aún falta. El lector tendrá acceso a las enmiendas, reescrituras y supresiones que cimentaron un texto que cambió la historia mexicana.

Cuba colonial,ensayo historico social de la integracion de la sociedad cubana.por el dr gerardo brown castillo,con prologo del dr herminio portell vila,la habana jesus montero editor,1952,nueva encuadernacion,mantiene sus caratulas originales,buen estado,primera edicion.

Cuba campo de concentracion por aracelio azcuy prologo de jose pardo llada primera edicion ediciones humanismo mexico en el exilio 10 de marzo de 1954 estudio historico sobre la situacion politica cubana desde el golpe de estado del 10 de marzo de 1952,hasta el ano 1954.

8º. 31 pp, Hardcover. Signed by author with inscription on front free endpaper. Also with "Correction" pasted onto a blank page at end of book. Cover with edge wear; no text markings noted.
The love story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico. Signed and inscribed by the author.

México, Editorial Leyenda, 19444o. 322 pp. Rústica original en cartoncillo. Dedicatoria con tinta en primera blanca (1949). 20 ilustraciones fuera de paginado.Esta invasión del mundo europeo constituye el nacimiento de una nación de rostros plurales, donde lo autóctono convive con lo foráneo. La obra habla de esta decisiva transición y la hace encarnar en el último tlatoani azteca. Este joven guerrero, sometido por Hernán Cortés y sus soldados, quienes le negaron una muerte heroica, quedo al margen de ese mundo naciente en los pocos años de su vida fantasmal.

San Francisco, CA USA: Solidarity Publications, 1984 A near mint copy of the June 1984 stated first printing of this bilingual Spanish-English collection of poetry by Roque Dalton, a writer and Marxist revolutionary from El Salvador and an important influence in Central American literature. He was assassinated in 1975 just before his 40th birthday. The title page is date stamped December 25, 1985, No other flaws. Paperback 12 mo. 206 pages,

Apuntes historicos de guanabacoa 1511-1927 por elpidio de la guardia primera edicion habana cuba 1927,impreso en guanabacoa,editorial juan f mora,1927.nueva encuadernacion,mantiene sus caratulas originales,168 pgs,primera edicion.libro muy raro sobre la historia del poblado de guanabacoa,cerca de la habana cuba.con algunas ilustraciones.

Mexico: Libra, 1951. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 184, (4) pages. Softcover in blue wrappers. Binding is rubbed, has toning at edges of covers, as well as scuffs. Spine is toned, has some damp spots. Prior owner's bookplate inside front cover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf as well as on a small card laid in loosely (the card was paper-clipped to the page, and the paperclip as been removed). Text is generally clean. Pages are still unopened (joined together at the top edges). Scarce copy. Text is in Spanish.