Latin America from Books of the World

New York: Simon & Schuster, October 1978. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 698 pages. The story of the men and women who built an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of… Read more

Mexico City: CEMEX, 1997. Hardcover. First English Edition (stated). Red linen over boards with blind-stamped titles in a pictorial jacket. Sewn binding. Fine book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Light rubbing to jacket. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 501 pages. Folio: 11.75 x 14.25 x 1.80 inches. Profusely illustrated with color… Read more

New York: Dover Publications, 1989. Trade Paperback. Unabridged and unaltered republication of the first American edition, published in 1904. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight reading wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 315 pages. Laid-in book review from Washington Post Book World. The curious call of an… Read more

New York: Bantam, December 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Slight crease to bottom two inches of spine and slight wear to bottom edge of spine, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 433 pages. A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph.

Washington, DC: Organization of American States, 1984. Unbound Photocopy. Very Good. 51 pages.

La Habana: Editora Política, October 1983. Unbound photocopy. Very Good. 28 pages. Translation of: Declaraciones de Cuba sobre los sucesos de Granada. Contains two official statements issued jointly by the Partido Comunista de Cuba and the Cuban government, and the transcript of a news conference by Fidel Castro Ruz. The contents of this edition have been taken from Granma, official… Read more

New York: Penguin, February 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Notes inked to last page, otherwise text unmarked. Spine curved but uncreased. Light reading and shelf wear. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 568 pages. A fictionalized account of the War of Canudos, a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the followers of a… Read more

London: Pan MacMillan / Picador, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Corrected Edition. Second printing. Very Good. Text block tanned, but unmarked. Foxing to top edge. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 376 pages. "What I had known of Trinidad as a child had seemed to me ordinary, unplanned, just… Read more

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, January 1990. Trade Paperback. As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not damaged. x + 232 pages. Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its… Read more

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2008. Trade Paperback. New. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Not a remainder. Not damaged. xiv + 204 pages. Contents: Introduction : a new kind of threat -- Saudi Arabia : oil fields ablaze -- Pakistan : loose nukes -- Mexico : a flood of refugees -- China : collapse of a great… Read more

New York: William Morrow, March 1996. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (stated) / full number line. Fine book in a Very Good cover. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Top edge of jacket is curled with a quarter-inch tear to rear panel, otherwise clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 398 pages. A highly readable and… Read more

Boulder: Westview Press. Trade Paperback. 1984. First Edition. Ex-Library: UK Ministry of Defense, Whitehall Library. Good; Near Fine other than the library markings. 349 pages. The expiration in 1982 of the Protocol of Port-of-Spain reheated a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana that had been frozen since 1970, Almost at once, Venezuelan ultranationalists asserted the need to recover by force… Read more

New York: St. Martin's Press, November 1997. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) / full number line. Near Fine book in a Fine jacket. Light foxing to edges, otherwise Fine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. x + 340 pages. The author's experiences as U.S. vice consul in Belize when it was still British Honduras, including encounters with… Read more

Washington, DC: Organization of American States, July 1981. Paperback. Interior pristine. 107 pages.

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, September 1996. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Binding square and tight. Cover clean and crisp with light shelf wear, corners sharp. Light dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 642 pages. A resurgence of ethno-nationalism, the collapse of empires, the outbreak of humanitarian crises, and… Read more

Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1990. Trade Paperback. Fine. Not from a library. No remainder marks. Cover with flaps. 91 pages. Nice full-colour exhibition catalogue with text in English. Published for the commemorative exhibition "Portugal in the opening of the world" at the Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, presented by the Organization of American… Read more

Princeton: Princeton University Press, December 1981. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Binding square and tight. Interior unmarked other than the original bookseller's price stamp. Covers clean with mild shelfwear. Foxing to closed edges. Not from a library. 421 pages. A study of the role of human rights in United States policy toward Latin America from the early 1960s to 1980.… Read more

New York: Crown, July 1985. Hardcover. First English Language Edition / full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Original seller's price stamp to FFEP, otherwise interior unmarked. Binding square and tight. Rubbing to jacket. Dust stains to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 233 pages.

Washington, DC: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, October 1996. Paperback. Fine. Interior pristine. Binding square, tight and uncreased. Slight shelfwear to covers. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. iii + 95 pages. Explores the complex nexus of security issues that the governments of Latin America and the indigenous communities of the region faced at… Read more

New York: Touchstone, February 1992. Trade Paperback. First paperback printing / Full number line. Near Fine. Interior unmarked. Binding square, tight and uncreased. Cover is clean with light rubbing. Foxing to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 193 pages. A kaleidoscopic memoir of a 35-year love affair with mysterious, exotic Haiti. The dialogue the author… Read more