Search Results: Mexico from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New Haven: Yale University Press for Frederick W. Beinecke, 1965. Photographic facsimile of the 1847 Lexington edition.First and only edition thus, limited to 450 copies. Octavo; textured paper wrappers with printed title label; 20pp. Mild external wear, still Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Preface signed "A.H" [Archibald Hanna].

Austin: Eakin Press, 1976. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 158pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and a half-shade faded on spine panel, Very Good. A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte "Peaceful" Mitchell, a seventeen-year old Tennesseean in the Army of Texas in 1836, one of thirteen men in Davy Crocket's Tennessee Volunteers who died defending the "Palisade" wall of the Alamo. Written for a young adult audience; in the publisher's "Stories for Young Americans" series.

New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. First American edition. Octavo (22cm). Dull orange cloth, titled on spine, tan topstain; cartographic endpapers; [x],279,[1]pp; title page illustration and black and white plates. Rubbed at spine ends and corners, slight spine fading, generally Very Good. Greene's account of his travel to Mexico, where he investigated the effects of anti-Catholic secularization; this trip would inspire his Hawthornden Prize-winning novel The Power and the Glory. Previously published in the UK as The Lawless Roads. [63553].

[Various publishers & dates]. Extensive photographic archive documenting events on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border during the Mexican Revolution, focused primarily on the Border Wars in Texas and the Veracruz Incident of 1914, comprised entirely of contemporary images, all but a few of which are original vintage prints. The collection includes: • Sixty-one commercially-produced real-photo postcards, ca. 14cm x 9cm or the reverse; • Six commercially-printed postcards using non-photographic processes (same dimensions); • Three carte-de-visite portraits, ca 9cm x 6cm, mounted to cards; • Eight small-format photographs (ranging from 14cm x 8cm to 11cm x 16cm), of which three appear to be commercial images; • Three 8x10 (20cm x 25cm) photographic prints, printed at some later date from original plates but apparently not contemporary; • One vintage 4x6 (10cm x 16cm) photograph mounted on board. All but a dozen or so images are captioned in the negative, and most are additionally… Read More

Mexico City: Partido Mexicano Socialista, 1987. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 16pp. Fine. Text entirely in Spanish.

[Chihuahua: Revista Azar], 1992. First Edition. Small narrow quarto (28cm.); original pictorial pink and blue staplebound wrappers, French flaps; 28,28pp.; folding double-page plate, text illus. throughout. General wear from handling, some dust-soil, else About Very Good. Mexican literary magazine; contents include a collection of quotations by Clarice Lispector, translated by the editor; and a short story by Federico Campbell.

[Chihuahua: Revista Azar], 1993. First Edition. Small narrow quarto (28cm.); original photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers, French flaps; 30,30pp.; folding double-page plate, text illus. throughout. General wear from handling, some dust-soil, else About Very Good. Mexican literary magazine; this issue published with a short photo-illustrated poetry chapbook by Gérard Tournebize titled "Poesía Escénta.

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1988. First Edition. Quarto; full black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xvi,352pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with only a bit of light shelfwear to note. "Behind the Mask in Mexico explores masks not as isolated objects but as integral aspects both of costumes and ceremonial performance" (from front flap).

[Denver]: Printed by Larkspur Press for Bella Luna Books, 1995. First Edition. One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.100. Broadside, with text letterpress printed in red and black on white Arches paper, measuring 8.5" x 19.5" (21.75cm x 49.5cm). Fine. A single, short poem from the Mexican-American author's 1994 book The Fever of Being, with the text printed in a single, narrow column: "Love is like setting yourself on fire and hoping you don't get burned." OCLC notes a single holding at the University of Arizona.

Wolfe City, TX: Henington Publishing Co, 1995. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. Khaki cloth hardcover; 68pp; illus. No. 48 of 400 signed copies. Fine in the original cloth; no dustwrapper, as issued. Illustrated from original photographs.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 black paper over quarter yellow cloth, wiht titles stamped in copper foil on spine; dustjacket; 231pp. Bookplate signed by Fuentes loosely laid in. Faint foxing to text edges, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with just a touch of wear to extremities; Near Fine. Collects 11 stories by the acclaimed Mexican author.

Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1968. First, Limited Edition. Sole printing of 250 copies. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; 40pp; maps; illus. Fine copy. Portions of the book originally appeared in The Journal of Arizona History, v.VII, nos 3-4. An account, written late in life, by a 2nd Lieutenant and aide-de-camp to George A. Dodd during the U.S. Punitive Expedition against Mexico.

New York: Random House, [1968]. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (23cm.); original cloth-backed boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly color illus. Minor wear to jacket extremities, mostly at spine ends, short closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel, small paper flaws to front pastedown and free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Children's storybook about the Blessing of the Animals festival in Mexico.

Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1944. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 442pp; frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Slight rubbing to cloth at base of spine; text gently toned at margins; single ink bracket in margin of p.86, else free of markings or significant wear; a Very Good+ copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00 on front flap), faded on spine and with a few closed tears to margins, just VG. Biography of William Carey Brown (1854-1939), based on the General's correspondence, diaries and personal writings, with special focus on his frontier service and in the Texas Border War.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Libraires, 2010. First Edition. Slim folio (30.5cm.); publisher's tan card wrappers printed in green, red, and black; 80pp.; illus. Exhibition catalog in Fine condition and original shrinkwrap. Bibliographical information provided by OCLC no. 668119454.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); black boards titled in white on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 186pp.; spine ends are lightly pushed with minimal rubbing; faint toning inside front cover, Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped, with nicks and short tears to the extremities, mostly at the spine ends, Very Good+ or better. "Octavio launches a far-ranging excursion unto the "incestuous and tempestuous" relations between modern poetry and the modern epoch. From th eperspective of a Spanish-American poet..." (from the dustjacket).

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 367pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. A bright, attractive first edition copy.

London: Frederick Muller LTD, 1971. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine with gilt vignette on upper front board; dustjacket; 65pp. Spine ends gently pushed, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £1.20 net) with faint rubbing at crown and a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. "This Beautiful Mexican legend tells the story of a Young Indian hero, Chicovaneg, who saves mankind by rekindling the Sun after it has been extinguished by the spirits of evil" (from the dustjacket).

Waco, TX: Texian Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxiv,93,[1]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "To George W. Vanden / Best Wishes / Richard A. Thompson." Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $15.95), lightly edgeworn, with six unobtrusive pieces of clear tape on the flaps.

Mexico City: Ediciones Era, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed on an interior page: "March 15 1965 / to Mr and Mrs Bill Noble with unconditioned friendship," signed, with an original sketched self portrait. First printing. Small octavo; black cloth hardcover, dustjacket, 223pp. About fine. In original dustwrapper, slightly faded at spine and toned at extremities; Very Good or better. Text in Spanish and English. Nicely inscribed copy of this memoir by the renegade Mexican abstract expressionist painter-provocateur. The recipient, Bill Noble, was a long-time columnist at the Detroit News.