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New York: Butterick Publishing, 1931. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Color Cover By Hubert Rogers. 192 Pp. Large Format Magazine. Light Edge Wear, 1" Split Top Of Front Spine Edge, 2" Split At Bottom, Two 1/2" Tears At Bottom Of Rear Panel, Very Faint Dampstain Visible At Upper Left Of Inside Front Cover And On Title Page.

New York: G. P. Outnam's Sons, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Xix, 439 Pp. Green Cloth, Gilt, Top Edge Gilt; Color Lithograph Endpapers. First Printing (1926 Date Ion Title Page). Light Usage. Gilt Bright, Former Owner's Name.

Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898. First Edition . Ecru Decorated Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 10 1/4 " Tall x 13 1/2. Numerous Black and White Photographs and Maps. Unpaginated; pages clean but loose at spine. Pictorial history of Cuba, including the events leading up to the sinking of the Maine (1898). Covers lightly soiled; spine cloth torn, with several small pieces missing. Tips frayed. Previous owner's label on FEP.

Frankfurt am Main [1591], 1592. Original Antique Map . Single Sheet. Near Fine. Laid Paper. Size: Image And Border Approximately 17 7/8 Inches X 1M.5 Inches, 45.2 Cm X 36.75 Cm. Burden, Mapping Of North America, Provides No Record That A 1592 Printing Exists. [Engravings Have Been Made Of The Offices Of The Great 17Th Century Cartographic Publishers, With Row Upon Row Of Flat Drawers For Storage Of Single Maps; It Would Be Unreasonable To Believe That None Of These Unbound Maps Survived, And This Appears To Be One Of Them, Although The Consensus Of Modern Dealers Is That No Unfolded Large Map First Published In A Book Can Exist.] Although We Have Been Unable To Locate A 1592 German Edition Of Debry, We Believe This Is A Map As Issued In The 1592 German Edition Of De Bry, Which Was First Published In 1591, And Subsequently Reprinted In 1592 And 1594 And In The Seventeenth Century. Small Cartouche At Lower Left, Monogram With Text "Caesavece Matis. Privilegio Mdxcii", In The Plate,… Read More

Paris: Editions Delroisse. First Edition . White Cloth. Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. 11 " Tall. Color Photographs Throughout. Apparent First Edition, But Undated. Text In French.

New York Ny: Amnesty Internbational Usa, 1994. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 25 Pp. Stapled In Yellow Wrappers. Near Fine. But Slight Waviness Along Bottom Edges. More Commentary From People Who Think They Are Advancing Human Rights By Publicizing The General, Non-Specific Details Of Reported Human Rights Abuses- As If Human Rights Abusers Can Be Embarrassed At All, Let Alone By Generalized References Which Omit Naming The Abusers A Ridiculous Method With No Historical Record Of Success But Has Been Quite Suitable For People Who Want To Feel And Look Humanistic Without Taking Any Personal Risks At All..

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Illustrations By Duncan Gleason. 201 Pp. Light Blue Cloth. Fine Book, Inscribed By Dorothy Gleason, In A Lightly Used Very Good Dust Jacket, Not Price Clipped. With A Printed Christmas Greeting Presenting The Book, With A Large Color Illustration Reproducing That On The Front Panel Of The Dust Jacket; Also A Flyer For A Los Angeles Maritime Museum Reception And Preview Showing Honoring Mrs. Dorothy Gleason, Sunday January 11, 1981.

Neu-Ulm Germany: International Primary Art, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 174 Pp. Illustrated Boards. First Printing. Fine. Color Illustrations.

New York: Doubleday, 1974. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 95 Pp. Red Cloth Gilt. First Printing. Near Fine, Former Owner's Inscription. Dust Jacket Price Clipped, Wear At Corners.

University of Illinois Press, 1978. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Xxxvii, 581 Pp. Gray Cloth, Spine Lettered In Gilt On Green. First Printing. Near Fine; Professor's Name Label Mostly Under Front Flap. Dust Jacket Priced $15.00, Light Usage.

Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 127 Pp. Brown Cloth Stamped In Black (Original Binding). First Printing. Very Good, Slight Usage, Ownership Information Of "Los Angeles Fire Dept. Engine Co. #51" Written On Front Endpaper (Perhaps The City Partially Subsidized The Book By Purchasing Copies For Its Various Offices). The First Step In Justifying Power Is To Give A Name To Each Critical Stage Of Its Historical Development, Numbing The Observer Before Seducing Them. It's So Easy It's Almost Ridiculous. One Can Count The Dozens Of Military Excursions, But The Covert Exercise Of Influence On Western Hemisphere Politics Is So Pervasive As To Be An Essential Component Of The Political Structure Of Every One Of Its Countries Far Beyond The Formal And Public Diplomatic Activity With Which The Doctrine Is Usually Discussed.

(Circa 1980): O'gara Motors, 1980. Original Photograph . No Binding. Fine. Original Photographs, Images 9 1/2" X 7 1./2". Oldfield's Copies, Hand Lettered, One Annotated Ford Gt-40 On Verso.

Havana, 1945. Original Photograph . No Binding. Fine. Original Photograph, Image 7 1/16" X 4 3/4", With Cuban Paper Mounting.

San Francisco: Selby C. Oppenheimer / George Engles, 1923. Soft cover. Fine. 12" X 9". Brochure Printed In Black And Yellow; Illustrations With Color Plate Tipped In. Fine. Scarce.

Habana / Havana Cuba: Seoane, Fernandez Y Cia., 1952. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good +. 340 Pp. Illustrated Wrappers. Original Journal. Lightly Used, Some Browning To Spine With Bump At Bottom Of Spine, Contents Immaculate.

Steidl, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 123 Pp. Large Format, Oblong, Green Cloth, Spine Lettered In Dark Green Silver-Gay Endpapers. First Edition Stated, 2001. Fine In Very Near Fine Dust Jacket

New York: The John Day Company, 1931. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. Plates. 315 pp. Clean, hinges tight, no marks, a little flecking to color of spine.

Los Angeles: University of California Latin America Center, 1970. First Edition . Red Cloth. Fine Book/Near Fine Jacket. 367 Pp. Red Cloth. First Edition. Clean, Unmarked, Undamaged, Trace Of Wear At Corners. Dj Complete, Price-Clipped, Short Tear And Associated Wrinkling At Head Of Spine.

London: Trade And Travel Publications, 1931. First Edition Thus . Hardcover. Very Good. Maps, A Few Photographs. Lxxii, 741 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Frontispiece Is A Large Foldout Color Map. Very Good, Light Wear, Gilt All Present But No Longer Completely Brilliant.

New York [1890, 1918, 1923]: Harper & Borthers, 1923. First Edition Thus . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Photographs By Arthur W Rushmore; Drawings By Marie Royle. A Very Tight, Solid, Unmarked Copy, Some Wear, With Small Areas Of Light Fraying At Top Of Spine. A Few Very Small Areas Of Very Light Soiling On Covers, Some Fading To Black Cloth On Spine.