The CIA's War Against Cuba by Luis Morena, José and Rafael Calcines - 1988

xii+436+[6] pages. Octavo (9" x 6") issued in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and embossed decorative stamp to covers. Preface by W H Prescott. From the library of George M Foster. First British edition.She was— it is no exaggeration— Mexico's Tocqueville, but if that ploddingly perceptive Frenchman's Democracy in America is one great boiled sausage of seriousness, Calderón de la Barca's Life in Mexico is a confection as strange and marvelous as Mexico itself. Stranger still in matters of (if literary) haute cuisine: the author was Scottish, née Frances Erskine Inglis. She married the Spanish diplomat Angel Calderón de la Barca in 1838; one year later they sailed for Mexico, where he was to serve as Spain's first ambassador to its still very raw and violent ex-colony. Revolutions, earthquakes, exotic flowers and snow-capped volcanoes: rich ingredients for even the most burn-the-toast kind of chronicler. But Calderón de la Barca is shrewd and skilled as any novelist at stirring in the… Read More

Mexico: Grafia Editores Jalisco, 2001. If one eats, let everyone eat 8vo size trade paperback with interior flaps like dust jacket; 215 pages with some color photographs. Booklet of errata is tucked into book. From flap: "Nuestras actividades se ubican en Chiapas, estado sureno de Mexico, con infuencia en tres zonas: altos, norte y sur; actualmente nos relcionamos con 240 comunidades en 17 municipios. La mayoria de la poblacion es de culture maya. Chaipas posee recursos econmicos fundamentales: petroleo, rios, reserva, biotica, produccion foresta, agricultura de exportacion y ganaderia. Los intereses sobre estos recursos generan una situacion de marginacion y dependencia para los pueblos. La poblacion vive un proceso de transformacion el surgimiento de la conciencia de los pueblos indigenas frente a la situacion actual. Para los pueblos hay un reto construir alternativas propias con la participacion de todas y todos." "Our activities are located in Chiapas, southern state… Read More

Fascinating Document describing the attempt by the United States to build a sea level canal across Nicaragua prior to the 'revolution' that created Panama. Original brown cloth hardcover, with numerous maps, sketches, and photogravures of the proposed route and buildings.(1) folding sketch of lines and reconnaissances, (11) large fold out maps and detail drawings, 56 full page photogravures accompany the text, a detailed report of the survey. All maps, photogravures, and drawings are intact. Slight foxing on front free endpaper and on back flyleaves. Binding is tight, inside pages very clean. Hardcover boards show some wear along margins. Gilt title along spine is well preserved. This publication details the the survey for the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to build the canal. An enviable and important original resource for any historian of the region or America.

Cuba campo de concentracion por aracelio azcuy prologo de jose pardo llada primera edicion ediciones humanismo mexico en el exilio 10 de marzo de 1954 estudio historico sobre la situacion politica cubana desde el golpe de estado del 10 de marzo de 1952,hasta el ano 1954.

Georgetown, Guyana: Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, June 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Unmarked. Spine heavily creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 419 pages.
The only book to date that can be read to understand the period of Forbes Burnham's control of Guyana is this superb work by Jesuit priest, Father Andrew Morrison, the former editor of the Catholic Standard, the official paper of the Catholic Church in Guyana. It is essential reading to get a glimpse of how an unelected government can destroy a country.

Mexico: Grafia Editores Jalisco, 2001. If one eats, let everyone eat 8vo size trade paperback with interior flaps like dust jacket; 215 pages with some color photographs. Booklet of errata is tucked into book. From flap: "Nuestras actividades se ubican en Chiapas, estado sureno de Mexico, con infuencia en tres zonas: altos, norte y sur; actualmente nos relcionamos con 240 comunidades en 17 municipios. La mayoria de la poblacion es de culture maya. Chaipas posee recursos econmicos fundamentales: petroleo, rios, reserva, biotica, produccion foresta, agricultura de exportacion y ganaderia. Los intereses sobre estos recursos generan una situacion de marginacion y dependencia para los pueblos. La poblacion vive un proceso de transformacion el surgimiento de la conciencia de los pueblos indigenas frente a la situacion actual. Para los pueblos hay un reto construir alternativas propias con la participacion de todas y todos." "Our activities are located in Chiapas, southern state… Read More

[Havana, Cuba: Cuban Tourist Commission, ca. 1940]. 8vo. [12 pp (unpaginated).], folds out leporello accordion-style format, printed in red, blue & black, photo illustrations & map on recto, large map of Cuba’s Central Highway on verso (slight shelfwear), NF. First edition of this scarce travel brochure touting the advantages of U.S. tourists to bring their own cars and travel over the Carretera Central which ran the entire length of the Island from Pinar del Rio to Santiago de Cuba, over 700 miles. The highway construction launched in may, 1927, and when finished proved very popular as a means to see the island. Tourists could bring their own cars from Tampa, Miami, or Key West on a ferryboat, and travel through Cuba. No copies in Worldcat.

Fascinating Document describing the attempt by the United States to build a sea level canal across Nicaragua prior to the 'revolution' that created Panama. Original brown cloth hardcover, with numerous maps, sketches, and photogravures of the proposed route and buildings.(1) folding sketch of lines and reconnaissances, (11) large fold out maps and detail drawings, 56 full page photogravures accompany the text, a detailed report of the survey. All maps, photogravures, and drawings are intact. Slight foxing on front free endpaper and on back flyleaves. Binding is tight, inside pages very clean. Hardcover boards show some wear along margins. Gilt title along spine is well preserved. This publication details the the survey for the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to build the canal. An enviable and important original resource for any historian of the region or America.

Cuba colonial,ensayo historico social de la integracion de la sociedad cubana.por el dr gerardo brown castillo,con prologo del dr herminio portell vila,la habana jesus montero editor,1952,nueva encuadernacion,mantiene sus caratulas originales,buen estado,primera edicion.

Georgetown, Guyana: Fr. Andrew Morrison, SJ, June 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition (stated). Very Good. Unmarked. Spine heavily creased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 419 pages.
The only book to date that can be read to understand the period of Forbes Burnham's control of Guyana is this superb work by Jesuit priest, Father Andrew Morrison, the former editor of the Catholic Standard, the official paper of the Catholic Church in Guyana. It is essential reading to get a glimpse of how an unelected government can destroy a country.