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Amado, Jorge PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE - A Fable to Kindle A Hope
Boston Godine Press 1985 First American Edition Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket Octavo
Translated by Helen R. Lane. It is 1940. In Rio de Janeiro, a crisis is brewing. The brillant womanizing poet, Antonio Bruno, has just died, and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is vacant. Who will replace him? A really nice copy of this delightful book. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Anonymous EXPOSICION DE ARTE PRE-HISPANICO TRES MIL AÑOS DE ARTE EN EL PERU
Lima, Peru Museo De Arte 1965 Paperback Very Good+ 8vo
63 pages; I: Arte Pre-Hispanico Desde sus Orígenes hasta 1532. II: Arte Hispanico Incluye el "Arte de Transición". III: Arte Religioso. IV: Arte en la Republica 1821-1965. 15 illustrations on 13 plates. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Badner, Mino POSSIBLE FOCUS OF ANDEAN ARTISTIC INFLUENCE IN MESOAMERICA
Washington, DC Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) 1972 First Edition Hardcover Fine Quarto Illustrated by Numerous Photographic Plates and Drawings
Hardcover. Clean and tight, very nice condition. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Baker, Paul T.; and G. Escobar; G. de Jong; C. Hoff; R. Mazess; and J. Hanna HIGH ALTITUDE ADAPTATION IN A PERUVIAN COMMUNITY
University Park Pennsylvania State University 1968 Hardcover Fine 4to
Occasional Papers in Anthropology No. 1; 563 pages; A summary paper with detailed appendices covering various aspects of a long term project: "Andean Biocultural Studies" focussing on human adaptations for living at very high altitudes. Summary study titled Human Adaptation to High Altitude: Case Study of a Quechua Population Native to the High Andean Region with Special Reference to Hypoxia and Cold by Paul T. Baker with eleven detailed studies by various authors appended. Large thick quarto bound in blue buckram cloth with gilt lettering.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Barbour, Thomas CUBAN ORNITHOLOGY
Cambridge, MA Nuttall Ornithological Club 1943 First Edition Hardcover Fine 4to 11" - 13" tall
144 pages; Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, NO. IX Aug. 1943 Quarto blue buckram 1st edition. Fascinating early account of bird study in Cuba by the author of the classic 'Birds of Cuba'. In fact this is an updated version of the 1923 Birds of Cuba, without the introductory material. Annotated list of 297 species. Two full-page sepia photographic plates. A very FINE copy - bright & crisp.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Barrios de Chamorro, Violeta ; [SIGNED] DREAMS OF THE HEART - The Autobiography of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro of Nicaragua w/ Letter from the Author
New York Simon & Schuster 1996 0684810557 / 9780684810553 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches Signed by Author
Autograph; 352 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in fine fresh dustjacket. Laid-in is a typed letter SIGNED by the AUTHOR to Katharine Graham. The letter begins "Mi estimada y buena amiga Katharine" and dated July 30 1996. In the letter presenting the book to Mrs. Graham, the author mentions it will be officially released the following September. Katharine Graham (1917-2001) was the Publisher, and later, Chairman of the Board of the Washington Post Company. She was a noted Washington hostess, whose dinner table served so many of the powerful, influential and interesting people during their tenure in the Nation's Capitol. The author Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was President of Nicaragua between 1990—1997, and was the first woman to govern a Central American nation. The assassination of her husband, journalist Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Cardenal in 1978, who exposed the corruption and atrocities of the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, thrust Violeta Barrios de Chamorro into the political spotlight. A housewife and mother of four, she resumed her husband's fight and found herself highly coveted by the Sandinistas once they had replaced Somoza. Though she joined them for a brief time, she eventually ran against their candidate for president in 1990 in the first country's first democratic election since Somoza took over and earned a surprising victory. Dreams of the Heart, a memoir, recounts Chamorro's rise from homemaker to statesperson and illustrates how she led her country through an important transition better than anyone could have expected. ; Signed by Author; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Best Maugard, Adolfo Metodo De Dibujo - Tradicion Resurgimiento y Evolucion Del Arte Mexicano
Mexico, DF Dept Editorial de La Secretaria Educacion 1923 First Edition Hardcover Very Good 8vo
xxvi, 133 pages; Clean and tight in original binding of black cloth spine with orange paper covered boards, printed title label afixed to front boards. Includes thirteen full page colour plates from Talleres Galleria (DESE) printed on high quality treated paper. Hundreds of b&w illustrations of motifs, images, symbols and designs throughout the text. The text is printed on lower quality paper stock and is toned and fragile. Adolfo Best Maugard, also known as Fito Best (1891-1964), was a Mexican painter, film director and screenwriter. Although many of his friends and contemporaries achieved greater notoriety as artists; e.g., Diego Rivera, Miguel Covarrubias, Carlos Merida, Rufino Tamayo and Roberto Montenegro, Best Maugard had a profound and lasting influence on the direction and style of Mexican painting and other arts. In his youth, he was commissioned by anthropologist Franz Boas to do illustrations copying the pre-Columbian decorative material emerging from archaeological sites in the Valley of Mexico. In the process of copying thousands of such artifacts, Best Maugard discerned repetitions of certain basic forms in the indigenous pre-Columbian decorative art which he believed could be reduced to seven elements. Between 1910 and 1920 his further research into areas beyond the Valley of Mexico - both within Central America and extending to early decorative art in Europe - led him to conclude that these elements were present in all primitive art. While continuing his art studies in Europe he met Diego Rivera, who painted the now famous Cubist portrait of Best Maugard in 1913. He returned to Mexico in 1914 and taught drawing and art in the public school system while continuing his exploration of primitive art and pursuing his own artistic work which incorporated elements of Mexican folk art combined with modern and rational stylistic elements in his paintings. The synergy of these activities resulted in the development of what would become known as the Best Maugard method. This book, Metodo de Dibujo: Tradition, Resurgimiento y Evolucion del Arte Mexicano, embodies Best Maugard's theories and methods of art. In 1922 "El Sistema Best" was adopted by the public shools in Mexico City under the title "Dibujo Mexicano," thus influencing the entire next generation of nacent artists as well as his contemporaries. In the last essay in this book, Pedro Henrique Urena credits the "sistema Best" with embuing young artists with a fundamental understanding and sympathy for traditional national art forms which liberate their expression and inform their later acquisition of materials and styles from other artistic traditions and genre. A landmark in artistic pedagogy. Despite its popularity with students and progressive instructors and despite the warm reviews given the students' work at exhibitions, the method was suppressed in 1925. Consequently, it appears this extremely influential and fragile book has become quite scarce. [sources: From A Mexican Perspective - The Vision of Adolfo Best Maugard by Rita Pomade, 2006; and others] ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Boatright, Mody C. MEXICAN BORDER BALLADS AND OTHER LORE
Austin Texas Folklore Society 1946 Hardcover Very Good+ 8vo
vii, 140 pages; Original owner's name on pastedown endpaper. Clean and tight in original green cloth binding with red lettering. Original sales slip laid-in - purchased new from the University Press in Dalls 1949. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Burden, William Armistead Moale THE STRUGGLE FOR AIRWAYS IN LATIN AMERICA
New York Council on Foreign Relations 1943 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine 4to 11" - 13" tall
Seven fold-out maps, plus large folding map in rear pocket. Illustrated with charts and photographs throughout. Clean and tight in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Catala, Jose Augustin LA CONSTITUCION DE 1961 y La Evolucion Constitucional de Venezuela Actas de La Comision Redactora de Proyecto. Tomo I - Vol. 1 & Vol 2
Caracas Ediciones Centauro 1981 Second Edition Paperback Very Good+ 8vo
Two volumes, clean and tight in original printed wrappers, lightly rubbed at spine edge. José Agustín Catalá was a Venezuelan writer and publisher who distinguished himself by preserving the contemporary history of Venezuela in the last half-century. He edited thousands of books, pamphlets, magazines, primarily on political and historical subjects. Coincident with the establishment in Venezuela of the dictatorship military colonels who overthrew President Rómulo Gallegos in the early 1950s, Catala founded Avila Gráfica Publishing. His publications were force against the persecution of intellectuals and censorship that characterized the military regime. The publication of the "Black Book of 1952," which detailed the abuses and tortures perpetrated on the "defenders of democracy" by the regime, demonstrated Catalá's adherence to freedom of the press and democracy, but resulted in a long imprisonment. When the dictatorship was overthrown in January 1958, Catala returned to editing and publishing. As editor of "Resistencia", a clandestine publication of the newspaper democratic action and numerous other publications, Catalá remained a loyal defender of traditional journalism. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Clagett, Helen L. A GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF BOLIVIA
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1947 First Edition Paperback Very Good 4to 11" - 13" tall
110 pages; Clean and tight in original gray printed wrappers, rear wrapper has two small nicks at top edge. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Clagett, Helen L. A GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF PARAGUAY
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1947 First Edition Paperback Very Good 4to 11" - 13" tall
59 pages; Clean and tight in original gray printed wrappers.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Clagett, Helen L. A GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF PERU
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1947 First Edition Paperback Very Good 4to 11" - 13" tall
188 pages; Clean and tight in original gray printed wrappers, minor rubbing near spine. This is the original Paperback issue, NOT hardcover ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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Clagett, Helen L. A GUIDE TO THE LAW AND LEGAL LITERATURE OF URUGUAY
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1947 First Edition Paperback Very Good+ 4to 11" - 13" tall
123 pages; Clean and tight in original gray printed wrappers.; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings.
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