Search Results: HISTORY - Latin America - Central America Books

New York, New York, USA: Laurel/Dell Publishing, 1987. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Laurel Trade Paperback in Good Condition. A Political Ornithology of Central America. Colorful and bright wraps with illus of a large bird on front, clean and unmarked with wear around all edges; binding solid, spine not creased; text block edges and pages are clean with no marks of any kind. Maslow's account of his journey into Guatemala traces the history of the Quetzal, a near mythical bird sacred to the Maya, and the Guatemalan people, from the heights of classical Myan civilization to the depths of depredation today--where the Bird of Life, the Quetzal, is dying, and the Bird of Death, the vulture, is fluorishing. Edward Abbey said this was "A bold journey into the heart of one of the most cruel , corrupt, and evil places on earth". 249 pages, indexed. 1987, Laurel/Dell Publishing, New York, New York, USA

Washington DC: National Security Center, 1998. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Paperback Book in Near Fine Condition, by the President of the National Security Center, 1998. Introduction by Captain G. Russell Evans, USCG (Ret). Clean and bright, unmarked, no creasing. Pages very clean and free of any markings. 111 pages. 7 x 4.25 inches. Published by the National Security Center, Washington DC, 1998.

Cleveland: World Publishing Co. 1961 1st ed. 618pp. illus. hardback sm 4to quarter-bound in navy cloth w/pictorial cover boards: Good in a torn but not tattered dj [some edge rubbing of cover boards; else a clean and complete copy] A standard work by the prolific American writer and explorer von Hagen (1908-85).

Perennial Library, 1989. Lightly edgeworn, price markered out on lower rear cover, one page with yellow highlighting and a couple of pages with ink markings. 168 pages.. 3rd Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University Press of America, 2003-01-28. Paperback. Good. Ex-library with stamps and stickers, pages generally clean

USA; Australia; England: Element Books Ltd, 1996. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Reprint Trade Paperback in NEAR FINE Condition. Little used, if at all. Glossy, clean, bright cover with the faintest of wear to bottom edge. Tight and square glued binding. Internals As New. Sixteen full colour plates of the Mayan civilization. Diagrams and drawings throughout. The author states that the Maya 5000 years ago predicted the present world will end on December 22, 2012. The mysterious Mayan peoples whose ruined pyramids and temples in the depths of the Central American rainforests are alive with inscriptions that baffled scholars for centuries. Who were the Maya? Where did they come from and why did they suddenly disappear? In this book the co-authors offer controversial answers that the establishment experts refuse to accept. Decoding the complex Mayan astrological prophecies, they tell of catastrophes to come in and after 2012. They state we are standing on the threshold of… Read More

New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 142 pp. Bound in gray wrappers illustrated in purple, green and orange. Translated from the Spanish by Kathleen Weaver. Very Good, minor wear to wrappers, internally clean.

Boulder, CO, U.S.A.: Westview Press, 1989. Book. VG. Trade Paperback. Very nice copy of this scholarly work on Central America. 208 pages, purple spine with white block printing..

Ex-library, and before that part of a private copllection, embossed stamp on title page. Revised and Expanded Edition, 1976. Book is in very good condition. Dust Jacket, attached with tape, is in good condition with shelf wear and small damages to the edges. Drawings by Dolona Roberts. 220 pages, illustrated with many black and white photographs. Binding tight, pages clean. - See more at: http://books.themadhouseartists.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=938#sthash.Nfd2UyLN.dpuf

Fairfield, Washington, U.S.A.: Ye Galleon Press, 1983. New Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Fine. Octavo, 37 pages Her husband, Jesse Morgan, was murdered in Sacramento. [Mintz 556; Townley, AMERICAN TRAILS, p.108}.

Montreal: CBC Enterprises, 1985. Paper bound, first edition, 74pp. From the CBC Massey Lectures series. Scattered scored text and notes to margins throughout else very good. 100 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

NY: Harper & Row, 1968. Mass market paperback, 1st Perennial Library edition, xii + Pp287. Includes appendix and index. Remainder mark bottom and top edges otherwise tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy. 220 grams.

NY: Ballantine, 1976. Mass market paperback, 1st edition, 246pp includes 32pp bank of photos. Spine a bit splayed else very good. 155 grams.

[Toronto]: Prentice-Hall, [1991]. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. xviii, [2], 242 pp. Bound in gray boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Near Fine bright, clean copy, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor scuffing.

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1991]. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 304 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over blue boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Near Fine, age-toning to pages in Near Fine dust jacket with bump to head of spine.

New York: Grove Press, [1983]. Paperback. Good. 8vo. xxiv, 342, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white map and illustrations. Includes chronology, bibliography, and index. Good copy, pages age-toned but clean, age-toning and wear to wrappers.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Folio. 62 pp. Bound in glossy white boards illustrated in black. Fine, bright, clean copy in Near Fine dust jacket with light wear to extremities.

Albany: State University of New York Press, [1988]. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. vi, 284 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations and maps. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good, wear to wrappers, previous owner's note in ink to front free endpaper, otherwise clean copy.

Berkeley: University of California, [2005]. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. xx, [4], 312 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white maps. Bibliography and index. Very Good, notes in pencil to inside rear cover, wear to corners of wrappers.

HBR Press, [2010]. Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 174 pp. Bound in illustrated wrappers. Black and white maps and illustrations. Near Fine, bright, clean copy.