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New York: Sarony, 1890. Ephemera. Very good. A mounted photograph of the Spanish dancer Carmencita, who was a popular entertainer in New York from 1889 to 1895. She posed for portraits by John Singer Sargent and WIlliam Merritt Chase. In 1894, Thomas Edison asked her to dance in front of his new motion picture camera. According to the Library of Congress's web page showing a digital version of the film, "Spanish dancer Carmencita was the first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera," making her likely to be the first woman on film in the US. In 1895, she returned to Europe where she toured for a time before she married a wealthy Russian who either committed suicide or was murdered by Carmencita after he lost his fortune gambling. Carmencita returned to dancing and toured the US in the early 1910s, where her press agents were happy to talk up her husband's demise in the newspapers. Albumen print, 3-7/8 by 5-1/2 inches, on a light brown mount with a rust-colored border and…
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Carmencita [Carmen Dauset Moreno] [Cabinet Card Photograph]
by Sarony
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Dawn Tango / Tango de madrugada
by Gonzalez, Angel
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San Antonio, TX: Wings Press, 2006. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. A bilingual collection of poems from a comtemporary Spanish poet. Translated by the New Mexican writer E. A. Mares. Published in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by González and Mares. According to OCLC, only seven copies are held in libraries. 29 pages. First edition (first printing).
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Elementos de economia politica con aplicacion particular a Espana
by Santoro, Marques del Valle, Baron de Claret [Francisco Gregorio]
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Madrid: Imprenta de Don Ramon Verges, 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. The first book on economics written by a Spaniard and published in Spain (a critical edition was published by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in 1989). Elementos was an official university textbook for a generation, drawing on the work of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and K. H. Rau. This first edition was reportedly just 500 copies (see The Economics Reader: Textbooks, Manuals and the Dissemination of the Economic Sciences..., p. 163). The book "is divided into a theoretical section, which synthesizes Smith and Say, and a section containing applications to the Spanish case" (ibid.). The only earlier Spanish treatise on economics is Alvaro Florez Estrada's Curso de economia politica, published in London a year earlier. Very scarce in commerce. xx, 315 pages, two parts, with separate title pages but continuous pagination. First edition (first printing). With initial and terminal blanks and the half-title. In a…
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Espagne païenne [Pagan Spain, in French]
by Wright, Richard
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Paris: Editions Buchet/Chastel-Corrêa, 1958. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. A travelog and critique of Franco's Spain by the author of Native Son. Translated into French by R. Giroux. Wright (1902-1960), one of the most important writers of the 20th century, chronicled African American life in novels and essays, but grew disillusioned with racism in the United States and moved to France in 1946. First French edition. A lovely copy in the original wrappers (paperback covers) and the publisher's glassine. Pages tanned, as usual. This copy is inscribed by Wright, "A M. Fernand Fahre, Hommage de l'auteur Richard Wright." Books signed by Wright are not common.
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Fourteen Titles in the Recreo Infantil Series
by Calleja Fernández, Saturnino
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Madrid: S. Calleja, 1900. Pamphlet. Near fine. Nice examples of the small-format stories published by Spanish children's book specialist Saturnino Calleja's "Recreo Infantil: Cuentos morales para niños" series. These child-size books, each 16 pages, measure (roughly) 2-7/8 by 4 inches, with a chromolithograph cover and one or more steel engravings inside. Calleja had a staff of writers who produced these short works anonymously, sometimes writing original stories and at other times adapting well-known tales. Among the writers Calleja employed was the future Nobel Prize winner, Juan Ramón Jiménez. Calleja's small, attractive, and inexpensive stories were produced in such volume that the saying "to tell more stories than Calleja" (tener más cuento que Calleja) became a standard refrain in Spain. The titles included here are 1) Barba-Azu; 2) La hija del molinero; 3) El hijo obediente; 4) La ingratitud; 5) Un joven afortunado; 6) Justicia de dios; 7) La madrastra; 8) La mentira más grande; 9) El…
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