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Madrid, Spain: Tipografia de la Revista de Archivos, 1927. Soft cover. Very Good-. Four Volume Set, Spanish text only. 8vos, brown wraps; overall vg- (edges and spine extremities bumped and worn with chips and tears; covers, spines, and pages toned; spines and covers creased; 'Printed in Spain' stamped on front covers of all; erased owner's name in red pencil on ffep and rear cover soiled of vI). An excellent collection of the best Latin American poets known at the time; begins with a large selection from Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Please be aware that shipping this item will require extra charges above our standard rate.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Lowell Houser. First Edition stated, no additional printings; 8vo, good (edges of boards and spine darkened; water stain to spine tail; piece of dj adhered to bottom corner of rear board due to water damage; water spots on dyed green top edge; green stains to top edges of pages due to water spots; water stains to bottom corners of pages along binding from p47 to rfep; cracked at pp46-7, 110-1, and 142-3) in fair dj (price-clipped; soiled, toned and waterstained; edges heavily chipped, torn, and worn; very large chip to bottom edge of rear panel and spine tail; prev. owner used strip of clear tape on front panel to close tear); 196pp.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1896. Soft cover. Poor. Includes Bulletins 55 (Bolivia), 64 (Ecuador), and 60 (Peru); 8vo; softcover; POOR conditon only (water stains on front cover, spine, and side edge; spine and edges of covers worn, chipped, and torn; spine ends missing; front hinge torn and repaired w/binding tape; detached ffep re-attached w/binding tape; binding shaken and cracked throughout; broken at page 2 of the Ecuador bulletin); includes three color maps, one of each country, in VG+ condition (dog-ears to top corners).

Colombia: Caravajal y Compania, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+. First Edition; folio, white cloth, no dj. Good+ (cocked; shaken; covers soiled; edges and pages toned; tear to top and bottom edges of p159-60, tear to bottom edge almost chipped off strip, repaired with non-acidic Filmoplast P)."The primary object of this book is to sustain before the countries of America, the petition that the Colombian National Government, the Colombian Olympic Committee, and the governments of the Department of Valle and Santiago de Cali, will bring up to the Technical Congress of the V Panamerican Games which simultaneous with these, will meet at Winnipeg, Canada, with a view that Colombia and Cali be granted the site of the VI Games to be held in 1971." Articles on the various attractions and industries of Cali, with color and b&w photos. Most articles in Spanish, but captions and many shorter articles are in Spanish, French, English and Portuguese. 174pp. Please be aware that shipping this… Read More

Austin: U of Tex., 1971. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. 1st, black cloth, yellow top edge, vg+ (owner's name ffep) in good+ price-cl. dj (tears to top edge of front panel; water stain to top edge of rear panel; wear and bumping to edges). 192pp.

Albuquerque: Pajarito, 1978. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Special Series No. 6. 1st, paperback, vg (covers rubbed; edgeworn; bottom front corner bumped and creased; brown smudge to top end of side edge, bottom end toned). 121 pp. incl. index. Text in English, but quotes many Spanish texts without translating.

San Luis Potosi: Letras Potosinas, 1948. First Edition . Soft cover. Good+. 1st edition of the third volume of Chessal's intricate and beautiful etchings. A large 4to softcover, good plus; spine is sunned and torn at the bottom; there are two water spots on the front cover. Clean within; each image is accompanied with a description printed on a glassine interleaf. 10 plates. SIGNED by the artist on the half-title.

New York: Carleton, Publisher, 1863. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. FIFTH Edition stated on title page; INSCRIBED by Kimball on ffep; there is some confusion as to the author of this book--it is either Joseph Warren Fabens or Cora Montgomery, both of whom were associated with Kimball but Fabens seems more likely, though the Library of Congress says it's Montgomery. 12mo, green cloth, no dj; good (cocked; front joint torn and chipped; two chips to rear joint; ink stains on rear board; spine ends, corners and edges bumped; gilt on spine dull, ends chipped, frayed and worn; stain spots to top and side edges; front hinge is expertly repaired, almost undetectable); 306pp.

Buenos Aires: Peuser, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair. First Edition. A fair copy; I hate to describe it. Both book and dj are water-damaged at the foreedge, and the covers and pages warped so that it won't lie flat. Pages waterstained throughout. Cracked at pp290-1, rear hinge well started. The spine of the dj is faded and chipped, and the panels look awful, thanks to the waterstains; luckily, the portrait of Eva on the front panel is away from the water. Edges of dj worn, torn, and chipped. Pages are not sticking so all text is readable (Spanish). 317pp + index.

Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico: Talleres Graficos del Estado (Michoacan), 1950. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover 1st, vg, many pages unopened; a sm. waterstain on the lower right corner throughout, front cover creased, and spotting to rear cover w/ bumped and creased rear corners. 126 pp. + a gallery of portraits of all 29 governors to 1950. Spanish text.

London: John Murray, 1883. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. Thomas Brocklehurst. First Edition; 8vo, red cloth, no dj; good (rebacked, original spine adhered to new spine; covers soiled; original spine dull and chipped; corners bumped and worn to boards; chipping to cloth on edges of boards; starting at half-title page, pp48-9, 64-5, 144-5, 178-9, 192-3, and 208-9; first blank flyleaf partially detached; chipping to side edges of pp59-64; number inked on front pastedown; name on title page; light foxing to Plate II, VIII, XXIII, XXIV, L and rear flyleaves; light soiling to edges of a few plates). 259 pp. + 56 plates incl. many striking chromolithographs.

Buenos Aires: Archivo General de la Nacion, 1961. Limited Edition . Soft cover. Good+. Limited Editions, Nos. 1507, 1285 and 2038 of 2300 copies, evidenced by stamp on back covers. Indices of 453 documents and illustrations plus large section of those documents; Spanish text only. 4tos, original wraps. Good+ (edges of wraps soiled, frayed, worn, and torn; spines heavily creased, ends bumped and worn; tears to spine of vIII; cracks to vols II and III; occasional tic marks by indices; previous owner's name in ink in all volumes). This publication was printed for the 150th anniversary of the May Revolution and chronicles Portuguese Politics in the Rio de la Plata; 526, 482 and 376pp.

Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1942. First Edition . Soft cover. Good. First Edition; 4to, tan paper covers; eleven plates of bronze busts of the presidents of the time with a minute biography accompanying each portrait (incl. Edoardo Santos of Colombia). Good (covers soiled and darkened; edges worn, torn, creased, and chipped; foxing and wrinkling to eps; ink stain on rfep).

Santa Fe: Self Published, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. Author recounts, with vintage photographs, his very interesting trips of 1945 and 1946 to Chiapas; 4to, stapled white paper covers; vg (light dustsoiling to covers; small tear to stapled ends; stapled edge worn); 46pp.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Nova, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good-. Reprint of the autobiography of the 7th President of Argentina, a vg- copy in tan cloth; has bookplate and pencilled owner's name on ffep, and pages are browning. Spanish text.

NY: NY Academy of Sciences, 1960. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 83 Art. 5, Pp. 761-916. 1st, near fine in original wraps. Includes articles by: M.G. Smith, David Lowenthal, Dorothy L. Keur, Michael M. Horowitz, Lambros Comitas, Lloyd Braithwaite, Elena Padilla, Remy Bastien, Daniel J. Crowley, Morton Klass, Wendell Bell, Hugh Smythe, Leonard Broom, Robert Manners, Wilfred G.O. Cartey, and Elliott P. Skinner.

NY: Greenwood, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. First published in 1990 stated w/complete number line, red cloth, vg- (spine ends and bottom corners bumped; three small tears to front hinge), no dj. 214 pp. incl. index.