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N.Y.: Akashic Books, 2001. 1st Edition, so stated. First English translation edition first printing of this PAPERBACK ORIGINAL noir novel. In fine unread condition. EDGAR AWARD WINNER for Best Paperback Original. This copy DOES NOT HAVE red circle annoucement that it won the Edgar award because the Awards are given a year after publication. "Fun, fast and intelligent, this devilishly charming import gives pulp fiction a good name. Hailed as one of the best Latin writers, Uruguayan-born Chavarr¡a is well known throughout Europe as well as in Latin America. He has won literary prizes around the world, including the 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award; this able translation by Carlos Lopez is the first to bring Chavarr¡a to an English-speaking audience. The story, a madcap caper full of twisted sex, devious schemes and high-rolling hijinks, also showcases Chavarr¡a's considerable scholarly research into prostitution. When Alicia, a crafty, bicycle-riding Havana hooker in… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Minotaur Books, 2004. 1ST.ED. FINE/FINE. Set in Havana, Cuba in 1958, and all hell is breaking loose. Castro grows stronger, Meyer Lansky and the mob flee to Miami, and everyone else isleft to deal with a deadly uncertainty. A great library addition for owners of Fleming's THE IVORY COAST, his debut novel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Akashic Books, 2003. 1ST. ED. AS NEW/ AS NEW. New " Cuban Noir " A study of the different religious factions inside of todays Cuba.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 2005. 1st. Ed., with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in dust jacket with protective mylar cover. The latest from the master of " Cuban Noir .". First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York: Overlook Press, 2003. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE - CUBA and BASEBALL make for a great read.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Novel Library / Diversey Publishing,, 1948. 1st prtg. (this is a revised edition of "Love At Last") Novel Library #7. Red lettering at spine is faded, pages are age toned. Small nick at head of spine. Vintage Paperback.Pleasures and Temptations, Lolita Forbes discovered on her wedding night something that caused her whole life to change. Even the love and devotion of her husband could not prevent her from seeking the answer to her problem- a search that led her down the strange byways of desire, among the forbidden pleasures and temptaions of tropical Cuba. Here is a tale of a beautiful, sensation-hungry woman told as only the inimitable Jack Wood - ford can tell it. Mixing equal portions of romantic intrigue with amorous deviltry, he comes up wth a pulse-hopping tale. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed.. First Printing. Pictorial… Read More

NY, NY.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. First edition. Fine in dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

N.Y.: Grove Press, 2004. 1st ed. A Fine, unread copy of the Advanced Reading Copy. "Cuban-born Latour's eighth book, the third novel he's written in English, pits Cuban crooks against an American crime boss in bustling, pre-Communist Havana. It's 1958, and Meyer Lansky is looking to make a killing-not just from his casino, but from all the betting on the World Series between the Yankees and the Milwaukee Braves. But mobsters Joe Bonanno and Joseph Profaci, Meyer's New York-based rivals, want a piece of the action, so they assemble a home team of criminals to rob Lansky's casino on the last night of the series. Led by Mariano "Ox" Contreras (so-called for the first thing he ever stole), they're a lively gang of smalltime swindlers, including "Wheel" Fermin, a short, balding and surprisingly prudish car thief, Arturo Heller, a smooth ex-law student, and Willy Pi, a former prostitute and cork bark collector who works at Lansky's Casino de Capri.… Read More

Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st ed. fine in dust jacket. An Earl Swagger title. 1953 Cuba. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A Knopf Inc, 2003. 1ST. ed. FINE/FINE - A HISTORICAL CUBAN MYSTERY. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 1950. 1st pbk printing, August 1950. Dell Mapback #423., reading crease, lightly rubbed at edges lse near fine. Front cover illustrated by Barry Phillips. Rear cover map of Southern Florida and Cuba with 5 insets. Vintage Paperback. A young but tired American engineer who has been on a secret United States Navy mission to the Caribbean Islands stops in Havana for some relaxation before returning home. But his program gets off the beam when he finds that his room has been searched, he is shadowed by a mysterious Cuban, and he stumbles over the body of a man who has been thrown from a sixth-floor hotel window. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. . First Printing. Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine. Illus. by Phillips, Barry. Vintage Paperback.

NY, NY.: Morrow, 1982. 1st. Ed. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. Both book and DJ show minimal shelf wear. Fidel Castro, changes clothes and idendities and plays with the CIA and other spook organizations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Atria Books, 2001. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. Set in the Sunshine State. Centered around the anti-Casto movement with touches of U.S. intelligence agencies looking into the background of a US citizen.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

NY,NY: Random House Inc, 2001. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A Capital Crime novel set in Havana, Cuba as the main locale.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Doc is off to Havana. "A few days before Christmas, marine biologist and former CIA operative Marion "Doc" Ford receives a call from a pal whose sailboat has strayed into Cuban waters. The friend needs Ford's help to bribe officials and get back his impounded boat. Complicating his life still further, an impossible love named Dewey has arrived that afternoon. Now Ford must go to Cuba, a dangerous trip because of his clandestine operations there that is made more dangerous by Dewey's insistence on accompanying him. What Ford encounters in Cuba is not simple government graft but a plot to eliminate Castro, and if Ford and his friends are to survive he must risk an alliance with a former Soviet agent, one of a cadre with its own reasons for wanting him dead. This is a fine addition to White's Doc Ford… Read More

NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First edition with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY, signature only, by the author on the title page. Doc is off to Havana. "A few days before Christmas, marine biologist and former CIA operative Marion "Doc" Ford receives a call from a pal whose sailboat has strayed into Cuban waters. The friend needs Ford's help to bribe officials and get back his impounded boat. Complicating his life still further, an impossible love named Dewey has arrived that afternoon. Now Ford must go to Cuba, a dangerous trip because of his clandestine operations there that is made more dangerous by Dewey's insistence on accompanying him. What Ford encounters in Cuba is not simple government graft but a plot to eliminate Castro, and if Ford and his friends are to survive he must risk an alliance with a former Soviet agent, one of a cadre with its own reasons for wanting him… Read More

NY,NY: Dutton, 1982. 1st. Ed. FINE/FINE. A Dearborn V. Pinch mystery. Set in Havana, Cuba.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

NY. NY: Knopf, 2006. 1ST. ED. Fine in dust jacket. A HAMMETT AWARD WINNER and a BARRY AWARD NOMINEE for Best Novel of the Year.. This is veteran foreign correspondent Fesperman's fourth topical thriller. He zeroes in on the secretive U.S.-operated prison camp for possible terrorists at Guantánamo Bay. The action follows the downfall of translator Revere Falk, an FBI interrogator whose Arabic language skills have put him in high demand and, unfortunately, directly in the line of fire between competing political forces. Falk has been focusing on a Yemeni prisoner with murky links to al-Qaeda, but his questioning sessions get interrupted when the body of an American soldier washes ashore in nearby Cuban territory. Falk is assigned to the investigation, but it quickly becomes apparent that base commanders as well as military higher-ups in Washington, D.C., simply want a quick whitewash job. Falk, however, has already asked too many nosy questions and finds himself cast as a possible… Read More

N.Y.: Poseidon Press, 1985. 1st ed. Fine in near fine dust jacket, slight darkening along top edge of front panel. Separated by the Cuban revolution and their love for the same woman, two adopted brothers--George Brocassie, on a mission to Cuba for the CIA, and Julio Alvarez, Castro's top agent and secret KGB mole--play key roles in the Cuban missile crisis. 447 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Book.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Akashic Books, 2002. 1ST. ED. FINE/FINE. A look inside Cuba that Fidel Castro or the U.S governement never wanted you to have.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.