Mi Aporte a la Revolucion Cubana by Bayo, General Alberto; Ernesto Che Guevara (prologue); - 1960

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown. Good with no dust jacket; Boards have minor wear, owner bookplates (Fanny . Hazard Bond) on front pastedowns, foxing, musty.. 1851. Eighth Edition. Hardcover. Xxxiv, 488 pp, 509 pp, 531 pp. All three volumes uniformly bound in three-quarter dark brown pebbled leather with marbled sides and matching endpapers. Four raised bands on each spine with titles stamped in gilt. Top edges gilt. Each volume contains a frontispiece engraving (Hernando Cortes, Montezuma) with tissue guard. Map of Mexico in Volume One. The 1843 first edition of this title was Number 51in the Grolier Club's 1946 exhibition and publication, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, Inc, 1948. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. First English Edition (published in Spanish as La Amortajada), "In the same delicately haunting style she used in House of Mist, Maria-Luisa Bombal tells the story of a beautiful and violent woman, who sees clearly, only after death, the intricate pattern which her passions made in the lives of those who were close to her" (from the dustjacket). 8 x 5". Original navy cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Letters rubbed, spine and tips of boards lightly bumped, prev. owner's name/date to front pastedown. Tiny pinpoint hole to half-title page. Endpapers and top edge toned. Pictorial dustjacket has very small chips, in protective cover. A very good copy in a very good dustjacket of this elusive title.

[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.

NEW ~ The second U.S. invasion of Mexico (1914) during the Mexican Revolution and its representation in rare photographs, graphics, and art. Excellent visual resource for historians and public museums. Presentacion: Almirante Secretario de Marina Vidal Francisco Soberon Sanz. Prologo: Patricia Galena, Directora General INHERM. Ilustraciones: fotografia e arte. 380 pp. En espanol / Spanish. Oversize volume. 6 lbs weight will incur additional international shipping charges.

8º. 31 pp, Hardcover. Signed by author with inscription on front free endpaper. Also with "Correction" pasted onto a blank page at end of book. Cover with edge wear; no text markings noted.
The love story of Maximilian and Carlota of Mexico. Signed and inscribed by the author.

México, Editorial Leyenda, 19444o. 322 pp. Rústica original en cartoncillo. Dedicatoria con tinta en primera blanca (1949). 20 ilustraciones fuera de paginado.Esta invasión del mundo europeo constituye el nacimiento de una nación de rostros plurales, donde lo autóctono convive con lo foráneo. La obra habla de esta decisiva transición y la hace encarnar en el último tlatoani azteca. Este joven guerrero, sometido por Hernán Cortés y sus soldados, quienes le negaron una muerte heroica, quedo al margen de ese mundo naciente en los pocos años de su vida fantasmal.

San Francisco, CA USA: Solidarity Publications, 1984 A near mint copy of the June 1984 stated first printing of this bilingual Spanish-English collection of poetry by Roque Dalton, a writer and Marxist revolutionary from El Salvador and an important influence in Central American literature. He was assassinated in 1975 just before his 40th birthday. The title page is date stamped December 25, 1985, No other flaws. Paperback 12 mo. 206 pages,

Apuntes historicos de guanabacoa 1511-1927 por elpidio de la guardia primera edicion habana cuba 1927,impreso en guanabacoa,editorial juan f mora,1927.nueva encuadernacion,mantiene sus caratulas originales,168 pgs,primera edicion.libro muy raro sobre la historia del poblado de guanabacoa,cerca de la habana cuba.con algunas ilustraciones.