The Coins of Estados Unido Mexicanos,1905-1965 With Revisions A Supplement.
by Utberg, Neil S
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- VG+/VG/ND
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SOFTBACK PAMPHLETS ?UNCOMMON, with REVISIONS SUPPLEMENT,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1965* Publisher: Sociedad Numismatica de Mexico.* Binding and cover condition: Soft olive green card covers, stapled binding (slightly rusted). No creases to spine or hinge. Edges and spine somewhat aged VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp & tight. No annotations or inscriptions, no tanning, seems very lightly used. VG++* Illustrations: Several b/w photo-illustrations of the coins within text.* Pages: 39 pp. text. i pp. advertisements to inside of rear cover.* Product Description :- A detailed appreciation of the twentieth century coinage of Mexico. The guide gives lists of the relative numbers of each pressing. Values are given as well and a section covering fakes and forgeries to be avoided. The final five pages cover the gold coins of the same period. This copy is accompanied by:- Revisions: A Supplement to Volume I, II, III, IV, Coins of Colonial Mexico 1536-1823; Republic of Mexico, 1823-1905; 20th Century Mexico, 1905-1967; Mexican Revolution, 1910-1917, 32pp pamphlet similar in presentation to the first listed.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with some ageing to the covers reducing it to VG*
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Darkness at Noon, by Hungarian-born British writer Arthur Koestler, is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. The novel is understood as an allegory to the USSR in 1938, the Great Purge, and the Moscow Trials. However, the text never mentions the Soviet Union or Russia (just “Country of the Revolution” and “Over There”) or Joseph Stalin (only “Number One,” a menacing dictator). Perhaps the lack of specific references is Koestler’s way of making the story seem more universal, but it’s clear he has in mind actual places, people, and events. Koestler was actually a proponent of Marxism-Leninism until Stalin’s 1938 Purge and the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Afterwards, he edited an anti-Hitler, anti-Stalin newspaper. Koestler wrote the novel in German while living in Paris, from where he escaped in 1940 just before the Nazi troops arrived. Darkness at Noon owes its publication to the decision of sculptor Daphne Hardy, Koestler’s lover in Paris, to translate the text into English before she herself escaped. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon as the second part of a trilogy; the first volume is The Gladiators (1939), first published in Hungarian. It is a novel about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt. The third novel is Arrival and Departure (1943), about a refugee during World War II. By then living in London, Koestler wrote the third in English. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Sidney Kingsley adapted it for Broadway in 1951.
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 4493
- Title
- The Coins of Estados Unido Mexicanos,1905-1965 With Revisions A Supplement.
- Author
- Utberg, Neil S
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet. Two volumes.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus ?
- Publisher
- Sociedad Numismatica de Mexico.
- Place of Publication
- Mexico. 0
- Date Published
- 1967-01-01
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