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169-195 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's wrappers. Revista Mexicana de Sociologia Volume LV (55) Number 2 complete issue. First edition. The author attempts to explore community ideologies that have shaped and transformed national ideology by conducting a broad survey of community ideology throughout Mexican history, in the Aztec era, the colonial period, Independence, Reform, Revolution and present-day "neo-Liberalism"; he also tries to predict the scope of these ideologies in the near future.Condition: Light edge wear, corners bumped and rubbed else better than very good.

1764?-1769, Oaxaca, Manuscript. 35 gatherings with approximately fourteen folded folio leaves (12 1/4"" x 10") in each gathering which are now stored in an archival protective sleeve. All hand written generally on recto and verso, but in many different hands with seals stamped or embossed to documents. Now housed in a custom designed folio enclosure (15" x 12 1/2") along with the original velum.This work details the agricultural, household and commercial operations, as well as the daily life, at the Hacienda. The manuscript includes business records, legal documents and a variety of other historical material. Originally housed in a vellum binding which has become loose, but enclosed within the custom enclosure for the document. This gives a glimpse of Oaxaca life at the end of New Spain's colonial reign in Mexico.Condition:Worming throughout, sometimes heavily. The terminal pages have heavy chipping and wear at extremities affecting text, some pages damp-stained. Original vellum wormed at the spine… Read More

xvi+388 pages with 2 maps, 21 figures, 29 tables, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") issued in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 1st edition. The Countryside near Guadalajara underwent great change in the eighteenth century, for that city, dependent on the surrounding area for food and other resources, grew six fold in those one hundred years. This book examines the period 1675-1820, showing how the haciendas near Guadalajara responded to a rapidly escalating demand for meat, maize, wheat, and other necessities. By studying how agricultural production, patterns of capital investment, the labor system, and land ownership and use changed to meet the city's increasing needs, Van Young demonstrates the vital role cities play in the modernization of traditional peasant societies. Unlike in Europe, the great rural estates of Mexico intensified but did not otherwise change their methods of agricultural technology. By increasing capital investment, paying more workers less money, and… Read More

xiv+141 pages with figures, photographs, maps and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's purple cloth with yellow and black lettering to spine and cover. First edition. The present work describes many aspects of the life of Saint Cecila, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The author was an observer of and participant in almost all the activities described in the vignettes which open chapter 3-6; augmented by accounts of informants. Condition: The Light edge wear, corners bumped, spine sunned else a very good copy.

79 pages with tables, diagrams and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's yellow wrappers. Translated by A J Swift. Rare and Unpublished Tournaments and Matches number 30. First edition. The Hague event was held concurrently with the Games of the 9th Summer Olympiad. As FIDE congress in 1927 bowed under the tension of British delegates and decided to allow only amateurs to take part most world top players ignored the competition, weakening its strength and prestige. Same as in 1924 there was an individual competition, called the Amateur World Championship, and team tourney, this time held as a separate event. Unlike in 1924 both events were split and no results from individual tournament counted for overall team score. Each team was allowed to put one representative in the A.W.Ch. and anyone but Belgium and Denmark did that. Most teams lent their top players in the event but it was not a rule. Steiner, Euwe and Matisons were considered the favourites and Carls, Treybal and… Read More

6 pamphlets. 1967 70 pages, 1967 Supplement 1 5 pages, 1967 Supplement 2 11 pages, 1974 82 pages, 1990 unpaginated and 1996 92 pages with Calendar of events for 1996. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stapled wrappers. First editions. The list of members reflects the Society's mailing list and addresses. The Hakluyt Society is a text publication society, founded in 1846 and based in London, England, which publishes scholarly editions of primary records of historic voyages, travels and other geographical material. In addition to its publishing role, the Society organisches and participates in meetings, symposia and conferences relating to the history of geographical exploration and cultural encounter. It is a registered charity and a non-profit-making institution administered by a voluntary team of council members and officers. Membership is open to all with an interest in its aims. Condition: Earlier issues with edges rubbed else very good set.

Houghton Mifflin Co 1968 Boston, 1968 Very good in a very good dust jacket 1st Hardbound Octavio xii, 562p [inscribed] Some underlining in acknowledgements, letter from author laid in. From the library of the Poet Bill Burford. Signed by Author(s). Hardcover.

ix+52 pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original jacket. Translated by Herman Salinger. First edition limited to 300 copies.Peter Henisch made his first literary attempts after graduating from high school while doing a traineeship at Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung (AZ), the central organ of the SPÖ. In the following course of studies he took German studies , philosophy , history and psychology . A doctoral project on Ernst Bloch remained unfinished. 1966/1967 he was local editor for AZ.He has lived as a freelance writer in Vienna, Lower Austria and Tuscany since 1971 and made his first appearance with Hamlet stays. From 1972 on he was literary editor of the magazine of the Theater der Jugend Neue Wege. From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the "Working Group of Austrian Literature Producers".The best-known of his works is the novel The Little Figure of My Father (1975; revised 1987 and 2003; filmed in 1979). In it, Henisch deals with his… Read More

209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.

xiv+461 pages with indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine with gilt octagon to cover. First published in 1962. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose between 2,000-3,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Condition: A near fine copy.

816 pp., including Index and Author Index. 6.25" x 9.25". Pages clean except for previous owner's initials in upper right corner of first page. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition. No dust jacket, however.

xvi+331 with indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine with pictorial to cover. First published in 1959. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose between 2,000-3,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Condition: A very good to fine copy.

xii+239 pages with indices. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt octagon to cover. First published in 1964. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose between 2,000-3,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Condition: A very good to fine copy.

22 volumes: volume 1, Natural Environment and Early Cultures: viii+570 pages with maps, tables, plates, illustrations and index with some foldouts; volume 2 and 3, Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica: [viii]+[560]-[viii]+[561]-1084 pages with illustrations, plates tables, maps and index with some foldouts; volume 4, Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections: viii+367 pages with plates, illustrations, tables, maps and index, some foldouts; volume 5, Linguistics: 402 pages with maps, some fold out and tables; volume 6, Social Anthropology: viii+597 pages with illustrations, maps, plates, figures, tables and index; Volume 7 and 8, Ethnology: [viii]+[576]+[viii]+[579]-965 pages, with tables, maps, plates, figures, illustrations and index; volume 9 Physical Anthropology: viii+296 pages with multiple foldout tables, maps (errata laid in) and index; volume 10 and 11, with over 103 figures, plates, drawings, illustrations, tables, maps and index; viii+[458]+[viii]+[459]-903 pages with illustrations,… Read More

2 volumes. xvi+701 pages with illustrations, maps, tables, bibliography and index. xvi+868 pages with maps, illustrations, tables, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth. with red stipe in gilt and black lettering to spine ang gilt "Smithsonian label" to cover. First editions.Volume 9 is the first of two Handbook volumes on the Southwest, the second to appear as Volume 10. The Southwest, as delineated by the Handbook editors, extends from the Colorado River on the west to the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. It runs from the Four Corners area south to the northern part of Nayarit. From the Pacific Coast in Nayarit, the line of demarcation extends generally eastward to the Gulf of Mexico in southern Tamaulipas, and then along the Gulf Coast to Matagorda Bay, Texas. This southern boundary dips far enough to include all of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Durango, most of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí, and parts of Jalisco, with a finger southward into… Read More

2 parts: xiv+78 pages with 426 plates; 8 unpaginated pages and 13 plates. Royal octavo (9 14" x 6 1/8") issued in wrappers with black and gilt lettering. First edition.Robert Woods Bliss was the earliest of the serious collectors of Pre-Columbian art. In 1945, he wrote to the secretary of his Harvard class:About forty years ago [closer to thirty years, in fact] I became interested in the sculpture and artifacts in general of the various pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico, Central America, and the west coast of South America. At that time few, if any of our art museums had on display these objects, which were only made available to the public in museums of natural history as part of their archaeological finds. To me, many of the pieces I saw had artistic significance and also revealed remarkable craftsmanship. So I began to collect, buying only pieces which appealed to me as objects of art . . . I began to try to impress upon others the importance of the history of art, of the stylized and powerful… Read More

xii+420 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine with pictorial to cover. First published in 1957. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose between 2,000-3,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Condition: A very good to fine copy.

7 volumes. Volume 1 The Marginal Tribes: xx+624 pages with maps (two folding), figures, plates, illustrations, drawings and bibliographies. Volume 2 The Andean Civilizations: xxxiv+1035 pages with maps (some folding), charts (one folding), drawings, illustrations, plates, diagrams and bibliography. Volume 3 The Tropical Forest Tribes: xxvi+986 pages with maps (three folding), plates, drawings, illustrations, diagrams, tables, charts and bibliography. Volume 4 The Circum-Caribbean Tribes: xx+609 pages with maps (4 folding), plates, charts, diagrams (1 folding), tables, figures and bibliography. Volume 5 The Comparative Ethnology of South American Indians: xxvi+818 pages with maps, plates, figures, tables, charts, diagrams and bibliography. Volume 6 Physical Anthropology, Linguistics and Cultural Geography of South American Indians: xiv+715 pages with plates, maps (5 folding and 1 large pocket map), tables, charts, plates, diagrams, figures, drawings and bibliography. Volume 7 Index: vi+285 pages. Royal… Read More

xvi+837 pages with maps, photographs, charts, tables, figures, plates, illustrations, bibliography and index. Quarto (11 1/4" x 8 1/2") bound in original publisher's grey cloth. with red stipe in gilt and black lettering to spine ang gilt "Smithsonian label" to cover. First edition.The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978. Planning for the handbook series began in the late 1960s and work was initiated following a special congressional appropriation in fiscal year 1971. This work documents information about all Indigenous peoples of the Americas north of Mexico, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and worldviews. This series is a reference work for historians, anthropologists, other scholars, and the general reader. The series utilized noted authorities for each topic. The set is illustrated, indexed, and has extensive… Read More

576 pages with diagrams and tables. Octavo (8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and cover. First edition. Rolf Schwarz was a German chess player and chess author. He wrote in about forty years from 1951 over thirty opening books . He was one of the best-known German chess authors. His work as a chess author Black began in 1950, when he reported on behalf of the German Sports Committee of the GDR from the GDR championship in Sömmerda . The following year, the Sportverlag published in the series "Sammelbücherei für Körperkultur" his first opening book, a monograph on the French defense . In 1953, together with Hans Platz, he had a 540-page volume on the Sicilian Defense followed. In 1958 he began working with Kurt Rattmann , where he wrote a total of 22 opening books in the series "Handbook of Chess Openings" until the mid-1980s. In this (after the uniform designed binding so-called) "green row" was the volume published in 1960 to the little-played… Read More