South American History
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South American History Books & Ephemera
THE CITY OF THE SECRET WELL (ART DECO DUST JACKET)
by T. A. Willard
Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. ; Green cloth cover has wear to spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. Illustrated with b&w photographic plates. Dust jacket is tattered and chipped but clean. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If...
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NZ$62.40
UNCLE SAM'S UNACCOMPLISHED DREAM
by Imperatori, Angela Grau
Cuba: Casa Editora Abril. Very Good. 1997. First Edition. Softcover. 9592101280 . Very scarce title. Light edge & corner wear, creasing to cover, some corner curling, light soiling outer edge of pages. Internal pages are clean and unmarked. 95 pages. B/w illus. "The incredible and intriguing history of the United States' position as regards Cuba during the 19th century is tackled in this essay in a coherent, agreeable and integrated manner. " Author won the Julio Antonio Mella...
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NZ$27.31
The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming
John Hemming. The Conquest of the Incas. Copyright 1970. First Edition Thus, Impression D. Softcover. Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, San Diego. ISBN0156223007. (stock photo of hardcover. our cover is same design but red.) History. USED. VG CONDITION. 641 pages, indexed. 5 ¼ X 8. From the personal collection of A. Richard Ellis, well-known Marine Sciences Illustrator.
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NZ$94.16NZ$61.63
Village and Plantation Life in Northeastern Brazil
by Hutchinson, Harry William
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. University of Washington Press, 1957. Hard Back Book in Very Good Condition.Without dust jacket. A Monograph from the Research and Training Program for the Study of Man in the Tropics: The American Ethnological Society. Two maps; Two Figures, Hierarchical diagrams; Six illustration plates. Green cloth with cream spine, cream lettering on front, green lettering on spine. Clean and unmarked...
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NZ$32.15
Mexico : Past and present
by Winton, George B
Nashville, Tennessee: Cokesbury Press, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition per same date on Title Page and Copyright Page : 1928. Hard cover in good condition with dark burnt orange boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Shows shelf & edge wear, age toning and dust soiling. Muddy beige end papers. Bookstore sticker at bottom left of ffp, ""Bought at THE PILGRIM PRESS, 14 Beacon St., Boston"" with oval of picture of a Pilgrim. Size 1...
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NZ$41.94
What Was Their Life? Yucatan
by Fawcett, Raymond [Editor]
London: The Gawthorn Press. No Date Circa 1950s. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Light wear to dustjacket edges and corners. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Colour frontispiece. 52 pages.. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$27.63
Mexico at the Bar of Public Opinion : A Survey of Editorial Opinion in Newspapers of The Western Hemisphere
by McConnell, Burt M
New York: Mail and Express Publishing Company, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition: Same date on Title Page and Copyright Page. Hard cover in good condition with navy boards & gold colored lettering on spine & front board. Would be very good if not for what looks to me like a dog bite out of top of back board (see photo) Interior text block clean & tight with mellow toning to the papers; edges of text block aged and with dust soiling. 320 numbered pages. No dust jacket.
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NZ$41.94
The 33: Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
by Tobar, Hector
New York: Picador, 2015. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wraps with a light crease near lower edge and light wear around extremities; glued binding tight, solid square; reddish mark on fore-edge of terxt block; pages quite clean, no marks of any kind, no creases. Former owner name in pencil on first page. An account of the catastrophe when the San Jose Mine outside of Copiapo, Chili, collapsed in August 2010....
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NZ$12.81
CHILE, A GEOGRAPHIC EXTRAVAGANZA
by Subercaseaux, Benjamin & Angel Flores
MacMillan. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. ; Blue cloth cover is rubbed at corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and very good. Dust jacket is tattered, torn, and chipped at extremities and spine with light soiling. Publisher's price of $3.00 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add...
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NZ$109.14
THE YOUNGEST REVOLUTION A Personal Report on Cuba
by Sutherland, Elizabeth
Dial Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ; Orange cloth cover has wear to the spine caps and lightly bumped at tips of corners but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards are straight. Spine is slightly cocked. Binding is tight. Toning to end sheets. Pages are clean and pristine. Dust jacket is worn with short tears less than 1/4" but clean and in good condition. Publisher's price of $5.95 on DJ flap with a faint line through it....
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NZ$68.48
The Penguin History of Latin America
by Williamson, Edwin
NY: Penguin Group, 1992. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. Shows a small crease at top and bottom of front cover and a crease along back cover. Light rubbing at edges. Former owner's 'impression' stamp on title page. * From the book, ""An excellent general history, clear in its narrative, interesting it its analysis and consistently intelligent in its judgments. Triumphantly accomplishes what it sets out to achieve. It will be...
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NZ$17.12
Oro del Peru : Peru se Goue Rykdom / Peru's Golden Treasures
by Gallo, Miguel Mujica ; Rey, Alvaro Roca ; Quesada, Aurelio Miro
Consul General of Peru in South Africa, 1981. Softcover. Good/No Jacket. 143 pages (complete). A comfortable copy of this catalogue for the 1981 travelling exhibition of historic golden objects from Peru. The covers have wear, scuffing, creasing. They are sure. The contents are mild. The many illustrations are bright, vivid. The pages are clean, clear, certain, competent, diligent. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
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NZ$51.36
The Blind Horn's Hate.
by Hough, Richard
London: Hutchinson of London. 1971. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs and illustrations. Maps to endpapers. 336 pages. From Magellan to the current day. - a tale of some of the worst journeys in the world. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$19.89
The Rainy Season. Haiti since Duvalier
by Wilentz, Amy
London: Jonathan Cape. 1989. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 427 pages. A series of personal journeys interwoven with scenes from the past. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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NZ$27.63
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
by Harding, Thomas
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st printing with full number line, Firmly bound & seems unread. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. .
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NZ$29.73
Argument for the Argentine Republic Upon the Question with Brazil in Regard to the Territory of Misiones; Submitted to the Arbitration of the President of the United States, in Accordance with the Treaty of September 7, 1889
by Zeballos, Estanislao S
Washington , D.C.: Gibson Brothers, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto, 334pp. Ex-library copy with the usual markings, in original maroon cloth boards. Good only, with the hinges cracked and text pulling away from the spine. Binding, though loose, is overall intact. Numerous foldout maps are present, and all in excellent condition, in contrast to the book itself.
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NZ$111.28
History of Tobago
by Woodcock, Henry Iles
Port of Spain: Columbus Publishers, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 'new impression' facsimile of the original from 1886. Undated but believed c1980. Firmly bound & carefully read. No inscription or ownership markings. No tears or loss. The jacket is printed on poor quality paper but is in good condition with some light wear..
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NZ$41.41
The Last Days of the Incas
by MacQuarrie, Kim
New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Softcover in very good condition. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Wraps very good: crisp & shiny, spine uncreased, appears unread. 522 numbered pages. Begins with a Chronology of Events, maps of the Inca Empire c. 1530 and the Spanish Empire in the New World c. 1600. Contains some b&w illustrations and a section of 4 leaves/8 pages of glossy b&w photos & illustrations. Concludes with...
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NZ$28.25
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Balancing Conservation and Development in Venezuela's Frontier Forests
by Miranda, Marta; Blanco-Uribe, Alberto Q.; Hernandez, Lionel; Ochoa, Jose G.; Yerena, Edgard
World Resources Institute, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Excellent clean condition. Carefu;lly read. Np tears or loss. No annotations or highlighting..
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NZ$19.11
STORIES OF SOUTH AMERICA
by Brooks, E. C
Johnson Publishing. Good+. 1922. Hardcover. ; Blue pictorial cloth cover is worn at corners and spine caps, toned on spine, and soiled but in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. .
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NZ$65.88
Pre-Columbian Cities
by Hardoy, Jorge E. translated by Judith Thorne
New York: Walker & Co., 1973 1st Am. ed. 602pp. illus. russet cloth sm 4to: near Very Good in a Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [light shelf rubbing of heavy volume; spine crease; slight mustiness; else a clean, complete & tight copy; dj = few top edge tears; else G+] A fascinating study in an enormous volume illustrated with drawings and photographs.
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NZ$34.24
FORGING PEACE The Challenge of Central America
by Fagen, Richard R
Blackwell Pub. Very Good+. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 0631158588 . Pages clean and unmarked. Cover has light scuffing, light corner wear and a little fading to spine. Main topics: Toward a Solution to the Central American Crisis; Five Countries, Five Realities; An Alternative to U. S. Policy. (230os) ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages .
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NZ$7.70
Histo´ria do Café no Brasil / History of Coffee in Brazil
by Moreira, Antonio Carlos
Sao Paulo: Panorama Rural, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated boards, hardcover lacking dustjacket. Text in Portuguese and English. A good only copy with hard bumps to both spine ends, and general overal edgewear and corner bumps. Some scuffing and light soil to the covers. Interior, a far better book - clean and unmarked with bright and colorful illustrations. Binding is solid though lacking tightness. 192 pp., color illustrations and photos. A detailed history of Brazil's number...
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The Native Tribes of Eastern Bolivia and Western Matto Grosso (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 134)
by Metraux, Alfred
Washington: Government Printing Office. 1942. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Stamp to front cover. Spine age-toned. Illustrated with black and white plates and fold-out map. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 182 pages + Plates. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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NZ$27.63
The Orange - A Brazilian Adventure 1500-1987
by Hasse, Geraldo (researcher and editor)
Brazil: Duprate & Iobe, 1987. Hardcover. Good/fair. Oversize brown hardcover in jacket - no indication of printing. A good copy with some wear to the board edges and bending at the corners and spine tips. Interior is clean and unmarked other than a price erasure to the top of the front free-endpaper. Flexible binding is solid and with no splits. The dustjacket is only fair to good with curling, tears, chips and areas of paper loss - most prevalent toward the spine panel. This copy lacks the...
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NZ$68.48
