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Album da cidade do Rio de Janeiro: Homenagem à visita de S. M. o Rei Alberto I ao Brazil 1920
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1920
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$480.00
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Rio de Janeiro: Pimenta de Mello & C., 1920. First Edition. Very good. An attractive promotional book illustrated with more than fifty views of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding countryside printed in duotone; each image is faced with a decorative ad page for a Rio-based business. The album presents a very interesting snapshot of the commercial culture… Read more about this item Item Price
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De mi jardín interior
by Vento Pichardo de Tápanes, Amelia
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- Used - Near fine
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- First Edition
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- 2019
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$600.00
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Bellamar (Matanzas), Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2019. First Edition. Near fine. A handmade artists' book interpretation of Amelia Vento Pichardo de Tápanes' 1933 collection of poems by the late, great Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez, published in an edition of 36 copies.
The text is color photocopies of individual pages from an original copy of De mi… Read more about this item Item Price
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Obras completas (y otros cuentos)
by Monterroso, Augusto
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Trade paperback
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$150.00
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Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria, 1959. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. The noted Central American writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Monterroso (a Honduras native but a Guatemalan citizen who lived in exile in Mexico) is known for his humorous stories. This collection presages his literary career with its comic title, which translates as "Complete works (and… Read more about this item Item Price
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De la vigilia esteril
by Castellanos, Rosario
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1950
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$720.00
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Mexico: Ediciones de "América" Revista Antológica, 1950. First Edition. Good. An early book of poems (her third or fourth?), published in an edition of 300 copies.
Castellanos was a major Mexican literary figure in the 20th century, part of the Generación de los 50. She died in 1974, at 49 years old, while serving as the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tratado de la extradición
by Godoy, José F.
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1896
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$180.00
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Guatemala [City]: E. Goubaud & Cía, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. According to the introduction, this is the first treatise on the law of extradition to be written in Spanish. The author, the son of a Mexican newspaper owner and an American mother, obtained his law degree in San Francisco and practiced there (while becoming a naturalized… Read more about this item Item Price
$180.00
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[Registration Document for an Enslaved Woman in Puerto Rico]
by [Puerto Rico]
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1868
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$540.00
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Cambalache, Arecibo, Puerto Rico: Padrón de Esclavos, Isla de Puerto Rico, 1868. Ephemera. Near Fine. A registration document for a 29-year-old enslaved woman who lived on the north coast of Puerto Rico.
In 1867, in response to the American Civil War and abolitionist movements in the Spanish colonies, the Spanish crown began to limit the trade in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mujer azul [Blue Woman]
by Fernández de Juan, Laidi
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- 2011
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- 9789592401976
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$150.00
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Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2011. A collection of short stories photocopied onto brown recycled paper, with interleaved collage and handcolored illustrations by Sandra Naranjo. One of the illustrations is a cut-out in the shape of a squash that folds out to reveal additional illustrations and text. A bookmark-like illustration, handcolored and assembled from two pieces of paper in the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Para Ernest de Cojímar / For Ernest in Michigan
by Estévez, Rolando
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- 2016
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Bellamar, Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones El Fortín, 2016. 4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies.
A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and the… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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Con los sabores de mi tierra Cuba [Flavors of My Cuba]
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- 2014
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$300.00
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Holguín, Cuba: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2014. Ephemera. 11 sheets, 6-3/4 by 11-3/4 inches, in a 12-1/2 by 11 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies.
Each sheet offers a traditional Cuban recipe printed letterpress on handmade paper. The recipes are inserted into a shaped folder reminiscent of a basket with a thick string handle, a mounted… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hay tiempo aún [There's Still Time]
by Prats, Delfín
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- 2016
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- 9789597163565
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Holguín: Casa Editora Cuadernos Papiro, 2016. 33 leaves. 12-1/2 by 13-3/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies, issued with at least two cover designs and typefaces.
Poems, printed letterpress with the text set on a linotype. Bound Japanese-style. The paper is handmade from various plant and fiber sources. Six of the leaves have minimalist serigraphs made jointly by… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Honey Jar
by Menchú, Rigoberta
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- 2006
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- Hardcover
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- 9780888996701
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$150.00
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Toronto and Berkeley: Groundwood Books and House of Anansi Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Mayan tales as related by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchú to Guatemalan writer Dante Liano. Will color illustrations by Domi.
64 pages. First edition (no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Menchú, "Para Ellis… Read more about this item Item Price
$150.00
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One Hundred Years of Solitude [withOUT Exclamation Mark]
by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,800.00
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New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Perhaps greatest Latin American novel of the 20th century--the sort of book where most Spanish speaking booklovers can quote the opening line, "Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,800.00
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Calendario del oráculo de los destinos para el año de 1878
by [Mexico]
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- First Edition
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- 1878
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- Pamphlet
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$90.00
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México [Mexico City]: Tip. de la Viuda é Hijos de Murguia, 1878. First Edition. Pamphlet. A fortune-telling system "fixed to the meridian of Mexico" [Arreglado al meridiano de México].
Ca. 71 pages. 5-1/4 by 3-5/16 inches. Corner missing from front cover, not affecting any text, but generally very good. Item Price
$90.00
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México Militar: Revista Cientifico-Literaria [Vols. I and II]
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- First Edition
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- 1902
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$1,200.00
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México [Mexico City]: México Militar, 1902. First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the modernization of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Conflicto Europea. Guerra Franco--Prusiana: El chassepot y el fusil de aguja..
by Bible, G. W.; translated by Rafael Benavides
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1871
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$480.00
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Mexico: Tipografia de J. Rivera, Hijo y Compañía, 1871. First Edition. Very good. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general.
208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Mexican Military in the 19th Century: Two Bound Volumes of Scarce Pamphlets]
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$1,500.00
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Very good. Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm.
Volume 1:
1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado. A translation by A. German… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vida de J.J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo; con notas muy circunstanciadas sobre el origen, caracter y atrocidades de los principales gefes de aquellos rebeldes desde el principio de la insurreccion en 1791
by [DuBroca, Jean-Louis]
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- First Edition
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- 1806
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$9,600.00
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México [Mexico City]: En la officina de D. Mariano de Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1806. First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution… Read more about this item Item Price
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Reproches y Consejos: Obra medianímica recibida en el círculo espirita "La Luz" por el médium psicógrafo Francisco Urgel
by Urgel, Francisco
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1889
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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México (Mexico City): Imprenta de Alfonso E. López, 1889. First Edition. Good. A very scarce Mexican spiritualism book, collecting the transcripts of six communications from the spirit world. The medium was the Mexican psychic Francisco Urgel, who worked with Refugio I. Gonzalez's spiritualist circle, La Luz (the light), in Mexico City in 1878 (though not published until eleven… Read more about this item Item Price
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América: O, examen general de la situación política de las diferentes potencias del continente occidental, con conjeturas sobre su suerte futura
by [Everett, Alexander Hill]
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- Used - Very good
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- First Thus
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- 1828
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$300.00
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Northampton, MA: Publicado por Simeon Butler, 1828. First Thus. Hardcover. Very good. A rather curious Spanish-language imprint from Massachusetts, and not the more typical Philadelphia and New York. This is a translation of the diplomat Alexander Hill Everett's 1827 book, America: Or, a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent, with… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tiempo de collage: Tiempo de abrazos
by Guzmán, Carlos [Carlos Manuel Guzmán Hernández]
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- 2015
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- Ephemera
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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$150.00
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Havana (La Habana): Habana Radio, 2015. Ephemera. Fine. Six leaves, three of text and three reproducing collages inspired by anatomical drawings. The prints seem to be a combination of serigraph and digital (ink jet?) printing. The three prints are each numbered out of the original edition of 300 copies.
The three text leave print texts by Estrella… Read more about this item Item Price
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