Search Results: Latin America from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Rio Piedras: Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; x,76pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; small corner crease to rear wrapper else a Fine copy. Text in English. "Thre authors question whether there exists in the Dominican Republic the true economic democracy and justice to complement the new political tolerance of the nation" (from rear wrapper).

East Lansing: Department of Communication, Michigan State University, 1966. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original green spiral-bound decorative wrappers; [1],viii,108 typescript leaves; illus. Wrappers worn from handing, very occasional marginal notes by previous owner, else About Very Good. "Diffusion of Innovations Research Report" no. 5. OCLC locates 4 copies in North America as of March, 2015, at Cornell, Michigan State, Oregon, and Wisconsin.

Bogota: Editorial Kelly, 1961. First Edition. Inscribed by the author in ink on title page: Para [George Genthe?] / Afectionamente / signed, dated in 1967. Octavo (20.5cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; 100pp. Small, faint damp-mark at base of spine; mild toning to extremities; still a tight, Very Good or better copy. The Colombian poet's fifth full-length collection.

N.p.: Barbara Kantrowitz, 1986. Original silkscreened poster, 23" x 17" (ca 58cm x 43cm). Printed in four colors on heavy white art paper. Mild creasing to corners, else a Fine example, Grade A/A-. A striking screenprint in support of leftist rebels in the Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1990). Unsigned, but the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) attributes the work to Kantrowitz, a Philadelphia-based painter and printmaker who was active as a documentary artist among California's Latino community in the 1980s.

New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 435pp; includes bibliography. Removed from a non-circulating private library, with ink ownership markings to front endpaper and accompanying black ink elisions from de-accession. Else a clean, sharp, tight copy in clean, VG dustwrapper.

Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO), 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 103pp; illus. Mild cover wear, with erasure at upper corner of front wrapper; horizontal tear to one text leaf; Very Good. Well-illustrated propectus for the ILO's Andean Programme, designe to raise living and working standards for indigenous peoples of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Uncommon.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions Book, [1947]. Revised Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in green, black, and white pictorial dust jacket; xxi,[1],677pp. Jacket quite rubbed and worn, coin-sized loss at top edge of upper panel not quite touching text, larger loss at bottom edge of rear panel affecting ads with loss of sense; the whole rather toned, more so at spine; textblock extremities dusty, else Near Fine in Good only jacket. Bilingual text in English and Spanish.

Havana: Casa de las Americas, [1967]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; french flaps; xix,259,[6]pp. Introduction by David Viñas. Clean, tight and unmarked copy, Near Fine. Anthology of works by the influential Argentinian modernist, collecting the entirety of his first novel (Juguete Rabioso, 1926); the essay "Escritor Fracasado;" selections from his Aguafuertes, and a one-act play ("La Isla Desierta"). Text entirely in Spanish.

San Francisco: Farmworkers Emergency Relief, N.d. [ca 1991]. Single sheet, 11" x 8-1/2"; photostatically printed on both sides of a sheet of yellow copier bond. Slight wrinkles to margins; Very Good. Fundraising broadside to assist California farmworkers following the disastrous December freeze of 1990, which wiped out 70 percent of that year's citrus crop and left tens of thousands of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley out of work. The campaign was founded by Gloria La Riva, a 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential candidate under the banner of the Peace and Freedom Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; ix, 150pp. Boards showing minor shelf wear, trivial toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Some external wear to jacket, including a 1" tear to front cover. Very Good. Published for the Center for Documentary Photography at Duke University, concurrent with the 1984 touring exhibition of Blom's work. Illustrated with 104 duotone photo reproductions.

London: Peter Owen, [1988]. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original black pictorial wrappers; [6],95pp. Fine. First published by City Lights Books in 1985. Short stories by Guatemalan author.

San Francisco: City Lights, 1985. First American Edition. First Printing (and correct First), preceding the British edition by 3 years. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp, [1]. Fine in a Fine dustjacket, one of a very small number of copies bound in cloth. The Guatemalan author's first book, a collection of short fiction.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2010. First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo (23cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; viii,406,[2]pp; illus. Inscribed by one of the editors on the half-title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "For Roberto, a steady anchor of sanity over the years and for all the great conversations over lunches too. Con el aprecio de siempre / Lowell." A Fine copy. Scholarly study on the history of race in Central America, particularly as it pertains to Black presence, and the downplaying of those with African ancestry.

Boston: The Stratford Co, 1923. First Edition. Thick octavo (20cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; [xii], 452pp; illus. Tight, straight copy, with a bit of soiling to upper edge of text block; text paper slightly toned; Very Good to Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. First Edition. Wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 292pp. Mild sunning to covers, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author to a colleague on front endpaper.

New York: John Day Company, [1947]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],248pp.; map frontispiece. Jacket extremities quite rubbed with closed tears and chips, rear panel dust-soiled. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Large contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. First American [and First Separate] Edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 115pp. Some age-darkening to the endpapers, but still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good. Collection of travel sketches, each with all originally published in the London Morning Post, Nov-Dec, 1927. The essays were collected in v.24 of the Sussex Edition of Kipling's Works, but were never previously offered separately in book form. RICHARDS A450.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Small octavo (ca. 18cm.); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, grey topstain; xix,[1],107pp. General shelf wear, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown and price rubberstamps to front free endpaper and half title, rear hinge starting to crack but holding; overall Very Good.

London: Merlin Press Limited, [1973]. First Thus. Octavo (22cm.); [6],434pp.; original cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket lettered in white and black. Jacket edges rubbed with short closed tears, a couple affecting text without loss of meaning; Fine in Very Good dust jacket. American destributor's price sticker ($6.25) mounted over original jacket price. Peruvian novel describing the indigenous Rumi people of the Andes; originally published under the title El Mundo Es Ancho y Ajeno in 1941. This translation first published the same year as the original.

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1941]. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; [6],434pp. Minor chipping to jacket extremities, small hole to upper panel touching one letter, gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good overall. One of the Peruvian author's most widely translated works, awarded the Latin American Prize Novel Contest.