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The Rough Riders

The Rough Riders

by Theodore Roosevelt

In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas desert and then set sail for Cuba. Over the course of the summer, Roosevelt's Rough Riders fought valiantly, and sometimes recklessly, in the Cuban foothills, incurring casualties at a far greater rate than... Read more about this item
The Serpent and The Rainbow

The Serpent and The Rainbow

by Davis Wade


In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti --... Read more about this item
Havana Nocturne

Havana Nocturne

by T J English

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Havana Dreams

Havana Dreams

by Wendy Gimbel

Wendy Gimbel made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba. She later went on to receive a Ph.D. in English literature, and is the author of a scholarly book on Edith Wharton. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Mirabella, The Nation, and other publications. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband in New York City.From the Hardcover edition.
The Traveller's Tree

The Traveller's Tree

by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the... Read more about this item
The Cuban Story

The Cuban Story

by Herbert L Matthews

A personal interpretation of the Cuban revolution and its impact on the United States and on Latin America by the noted New York Times correspondent and editor.
Six Days In Havana

Six Days In Havana

by James a ; Kings, John Michener

History Will Absolve Me

History Will Absolve Me

by Fidel Castro

Panamexico

Panamexico

by Carveth Wells

Best Nightmare On Earth

Best Nightmare On Earth

by Herbert Gold

History Of the Bahamas

History Of the Bahamas

by Michael Craton

Bay Of Pigs

Bay Of Pigs

by Peter Wyden

The Story Of Bermuda

The Story Of Bermuda

by Hudson Strode

Papa Doc

Papa Doc

by Bernard, and Burt, Al Diederich

Fidel

Fidel

by Tad Szulc

Six Days In Havana

Six Days In Havana

by James a And John Kings Michener

October Fury

October Fury

by Peter Huchthausen

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90 Miles From Home

by Warren Miller

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The Fish Is Red

by Warren Hinckle; William W Turner

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Virgins

by Jeanne Perkins Harman

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Divine Horsemen

by M Deren

Caribbean Books & Ephemera

Cuba

Cuba

by Suchlicki, Jaime

Insider

Insider

by Llovio-Menendez, Jose Luis

Black Star: The Voice of the People, Vol. No. 15 (May 25, 1968)

Black Star: The Voice of the People, Vol. No. 15 (May 25, 1968)

Bridgetowm. Barbados: Black Star Publications, 1968. Very Good. illustrations, 8p. No separate wrapper. 36 cm. Horizonal fold in center. Small newspaper format but not printed on newsprint . Editorial on front page favors more militant trade unions to stop the exploitation of low wage workers.
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$85.00
Fidel at the UN

Fidel at the UN

by [Castro, Fidel]

Santa Rosa, CA: Red Square Books, n.d.. 12p., wraps, 7x8.5 inches. Speech at general assembly session in 1979, reprinted from Granma.
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$12.00
Cuba

Cuba

Madrid.: Aguilar., 1999.. Paperback. Good. 22 cm. 312 p. il., mapas, planos. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Guías Fodor's. Índice. Cuba. Guías turísticas . ISBN: 8403592167 Geografía de Cuba. Guías con información práctica y descriptiva. (917.291(036)) [[917.291]]
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$6.78
Contestacion al cuestionario formulado por la delegacion en Madrid en 24 de junio de 1891

Contestacion al cuestionario formulado por la delegacion en Madrid en 24 de junio de 1891

by Cuba. Comite Central de Propaganda Economica

Habana: Imprenta "La Razon", 1891. Paperback. Very Good. table, 35p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Slight vertical crease and slight wrinkling throughout. Cuban institutional stamp on title-page. Spanish text. Tariffs and taxes on Cuban export commodities, mainly sugar and tobacco.
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$60.00
Réflexions sur la colonie françoise de la Guyane

Réflexions sur la colonie françoise de la Guyane

by [M. B., Contrôleur de la marine]

[Paris?]: [S.n.], 1788. First edition. Sewn binding. Protected with blank paper wrappers. Title and date in ink on the front cover by a later neat hand. Printed on thick paper. Partly uncut, untrimmed. With a few contemporary corrections in the text in ink (like in other copies). Some stains on the cover. Inside clean. Overall in fine condition.. First edition. Sewn binding. Protected with blank paper wrappers. [6] 52 [2] p. A scarce and interesting source of the French efforts to colonize Guiana in... Read more about this item
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$4,161.20
Among the lost

Among the lost

by Davis, Robert

San Francisco: Lost Books Press, 2009. Paperback. 198p., very good in wraps; signed by author on the half-title. Former Trotskyist pens a mystery involving Cuban exiles and Castro supporters in a tale featuring a Berkeley reporter in the 1960s.
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$15.00
De la Demajagua a Playa Giron "Un encuentro del pueblo con su propia Historia

De la Demajagua a Playa Giron "Un encuentro del pueblo con su propia Historia

by Soto Valdespino, Juan Jose, compiler

La Habana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, 1978. Paperback. 466p., a fat little softbound in 7x4 inch decorated wraps, rather worn with tiny splits at top and tail of cover joint, a touch of damp-ripple mildly affecting the terminal leaves, generally sound and entirely clean and unmarked: a good (good-only) copy.
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$20.00
Pan and Peacocks

Pan and Peacocks

by Roberts, Walter Adolphe, 1886-1962

Boston: Four Seas, 1928. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 80p. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. 21cm. Small gouge in backstrip cloth which is also lightly worn at ends (minor loss of cloth). Other extremities rubbed with some loss of patterned paper. No Jacket. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Roberts in 1929 to Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas, who lived in Connecticut and also wrote poetry. Roberts, who was born and raised in Jamaica and returned to live there in 1951, is often mentioned or honored as one of the... Read more about this item
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$300.00
Hands off the Panama Canal

Hands off the Panama Canal

by Levine, Isaac Don

Washington, D.C.: Monticello Books, 1977. Paperback. vi, 98pp., wraps. 2nd printing. "The anatomy of the Soviet threat in the Caribbean and its violation of the Monroe Doctrine revealed in light of the aggression of the Russian-Cuban Axis in Angola.".
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$12.00
Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui [Mounted Photograph]

Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui [Mounted Photograph]

by [Quesada y Aróstegui, Gonzalo de]

1900. Ephemera. Very good. A mounted half-length portrait photograph of Cuban independence leader Gonzalo de Quesada (1868-1915). Quesada came to the US with his parents as a boy. He grew up in New York City, obtained a law degree from New York University, and became friends with José Martí. With Martí he advocated for Cuban independence and was a member of the constitutional convention. He served as Cuban ambassador to the US and then to Germany. He died in Berlin during the First World War.... Read more about this item
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$300.00
The Crime of Cuba

The Crime of Cuba

by Beals, Carleton

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1933. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Walker Evans. index, 441p. plus 31 black and white photos by Walker Evans at the end. Original black cloth. 23 cm. Two raised diagonal creases marks visible near top of backstrip (which also has some modest spotting). Two gentle cover bumps. No jacket.
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$250.00
Anthony J. Perez, Jr. vs. Muhammad Ali

Anthony J. Perez, Jr. vs. Muhammad Ali

[New York], 1976. Hardcover. A bound volume containing photoreproductions of 28 different trial documents from the Southern District of New York, where the boxing referee Anthony Perez sued Muhammad Ali for $20 million for making statements that Perez called malicious, false and defamatory. The lawsuit was ultimately quashed, and the two eventually resumed their friendship. This set of documents was custom-bound for an attorney, in buckram boards with the attorney's name printed at the bottom of the... Read more about this item
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$250.00
Nouvelles de l'Amerique, Ou le Mercure Ameriquain. Ou sont contenues trois histoires veritables arrivees de notre temps

Nouvelles de l'Amerique, Ou le Mercure Ameriquain. Ou sont contenues trois histoires veritables arrivees de notre temps

by PIRATES

Rouen: Francois Vaultier, 1678. First. hardcover. good. 267pp. + 1 page from the publisher. 24mo, 18th century or early nineteenth century 1/2 calf with gilt spine and marbled boards, head of spine and edges of corners very lightly worn, several pages cropped on top margin, bottom margins throughout are lightly soiled, later annotations on margins of title page, preface, and page 266., bottom margin lacking on last page of text, with a slight loss to letters in two words of the publisher's ad page... Read more about this item
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$4,000.00
A Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo;

A Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo;

by MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY, M. L. E

Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by the Author, 1798. hardcover. good. Containing, general observations on the climate, population and productions; On the character and manners of the inhabitants; With an account of the several branches of the government. Translated from the French, by William Cobbett. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, leather labels, lacks last two pages of text in volume I, head of spine and edges of corners worn on volume I, spine ends lightly worn on volume II, both volumes... Read more about this item
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$3,500.00
Manifesto of Montecristi / History will absolve me

Manifesto of Montecristi / History will absolve me

by Martí Máximo Gómez, José; Fidel Castro

Havana: Oficina de Publicaciones del Consejo de Estado ; Oficina del programa Martiano, 2000. 111p., wraps, 8x10.5 inches, lightly worn else very good condition. Two important Cuban addresses published together to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Martí's birth.
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$12.00
L'Isles de Cuba et de la Jamaique

L'Isles de Cuba et de la Jamaique

by BONNE, Rigobert

Paris: Rigobert Bonne, 1788. unbound. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 10 1/4 x 14 3/4". Page measures 12 1/4" x 17 1/8".<br/><br/> This map of Cuba and Jamaica is by one of the most significant French cartographers of the 18th century. Bonne has elegantly rendered the shape and detail of the coastlines, showing towns, ports, rivers, and some topographical features. The map also includes parts of the Bahamas, St Domingue (present-day Hispaniola), and the... Read more about this item
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$300.00
Bake-face and other guava stories

Bake-face and other guava stories

by Adisa, Opal Palmer

Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1986. xiii, 116p., signed and inscribed by the Afro-Jamaican writer, first edition, wraps in very good condition.
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$20.00
La identidad y la cultura; criticas y valoraciones en torno a la historia social de Puerto Rico

La identidad y la cultura; criticas y valoraciones en torno a la historia social de Puerto Rico

by Fernandez Mendez, Eugenio

San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1970. Hardcover. 267p., text in Spanish, very good new edition (revised and expanded) in half-cloth boards and dj. Serie: Biblioteca Popular Número 4. A section on Puerto Ricans in New York City.
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$25.00
Party Organizer, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-5, Feb, Apr, Sep, 1981

Party Organizer, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-5, Feb, Apr, Sep, 1981

by Socialist Workers Party

New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1981. Five issues, wraps, 8.5x11 inches, various pagination, wraps worn and aged, big letter "A" inked on top of cover wrap, else good condition. Various contributions on the Party's turn to industry, "new" leadership of the Party, various letters between the leadership and the older veterans of the class struggle, World Political Report focusing on Cuban, Iranian, Nicaraguan and Granadian revolutions.
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$35.00
The Serpent And The Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo Zombis and Magic

The Serpent And The Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Society of Haitian Voodoo Zombis and Magic

by Davis, Wade

Stoddart Publications, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$47.98
Cuba and Marxist theory. Selected documents on the Cuban question

Cuba and Marxist theory. Selected documents on the Cuban question

by [Spartacist League]

New York: Spartacist, n.d.. vii, 37p., 8.5x11 inches, very good in wraps, reprint of 1966 edition. Marxist bulletin no. 8.
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$12.00
Oddsplayer

Oddsplayer

by Rodriguez, Joe

Houston: Arte Publico, 1988. Paperback. 106p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.
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$12.00
Flickering shadows; a novel

Flickering shadows; a novel

by Kamau, Kwadwo Agymah

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. Hardcover. 298p., first printing, slight wear to edges of dj. First novel for the Barbados-born Afro-Caribbean author.
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$12.00
Jibara!

Jibara!

by Monteflores, Carmen de

Bloomington IN: AuthorHouse, 2014. Paperback. vi, 292p., novel set on the island in the 1930s, provides a glossary of PR Spanish, softbound in 8x5 inch well-designed color pictorial wraps. As new: perfectly sound, clean and --except for author inscription- unmarked. Puerto Rican lesbian; brief inscription to a friend on the first blank, autographed as "Carmen" Caribbean novel. Jibara means in English 'a rural mountain girl'.
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$35.00