Search Results: Central & South America from Louise Aird

Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Borges (1899-1986) was educated in Europe and returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he co-founded several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the 1961 $10,000 International Publishers Prize, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called 'an esthetics of the intellect'. Some critics have called him 'a mystic'. This collection was published before Borges died, so it contains what he… Read More

The Darien Disaster refers to a series of events which took place from 1698-1700, when the Scots defied the English and Spanish and tried to establish a settlement in Panama. What transpired cost 2,000 Scots their lives and firmly marked the end of Scotland's attempt at independence. It remains a scar on the Scottish psyche.The Darien Disaster, A Scots Colony in the New World 1698-1700 was written in 1968 by the preeminent authority on Scottish history, the Canadian-English journalist John Prebble (1915-2001). It was a best-seller and was re-issued by Edinburgh's Mainstream Publishing in 1978, as a trade paperback which, oddly, has a dust jacket. It is 366 pages, including lots of images. It has one dogear and a gift inscription in the front (father to daughter) but is in excellent condition.

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Design was the journal of The Council of Industrial Design (Great Britain) and published from 1949 until 1999.
It is 9 ¾" x 12 ¾"—too large to scan and my apologies for the photo.
August 1992
Cover
Metropolitan Toaster designed by Black & Decker and Smart Design
Contents
Design in Rio
British Design Awards
US Design Awards
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114 Pages, Minor wear to the edges of the cover, otherwise Pristine.

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This is a pristine first edition of The Donkey Inside, by Ludwig Bemelmans. It is a travelogue of a trip he took to Ecuador and was published in 1949.
23 pieces and 155 pages, including 4 double-page color illustrations. No jacket.
The book may have been read, or leafed through, but it is in mint condition.

This is the Andre Deutsch Russell Edition, and 1978 3rd printing of V.S.Naipaul's A Flag on the Island, his 7th book, originally published in 1967 (by Deutsch). It is 11 stories and a novella: A Flag on the Island is a story that began as a commissioned screenplay and was rejected by the director.
This book is in pristine condition. It has not been read. There are no marks of any kind in it or on it. Its only flaw is some fading on the spine of the dust jacket.Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (1932-2018), most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, was a Trinidadian-British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker later novels of the wider world, and his chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than 30 books over 50 years. Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In a Free State. In 1989, he was awarded the… Read More

The is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is a 1904 novel by the prolific Anglo-Argentinian writer William Henry Hudson (1841-1922). A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow.One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between… Read More

The Lost World is a science fiction novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine, in 1912, and the character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. It is about an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.
This is part of the Good Reads series, published by Dalmatian Press in 2004. It is a luxury edition, of sorts, with a high-quality cover, nice paper, and attractive modern type.
208 pages, with 2 illustrations.
There's a dogear on page 9; otherwise pristine condition.

June 1, 1987.
118 Pages, no label or barcode
Cover: Seed Packets for Meals, by Roz Chast
Switzerland, Brasil, Avigdor Arikha
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Condition: Pristine; not read—all insert cards are still in it.

Roz Chast (1954-) is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. Since 1978, she has published more than 800 cartoons in The New Yorker. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review.

This is an original watercolor by, I assume, a Peruvian artist. It is signed 'Pacus 85', or 'Paous 85', but I can't find an artist with a similar name.
It's very well-done and of high quality. It is a richly-colored scene of five Peruvian women (identifiable by their headwear and braids) sitting among their wares--large pots and fabric, in front of the village church.
6 3/8" x 9 3/4"
It was originally professionally framed. The frame broke and is gone; the painting is still attached to the original matting.
The painting itself is in perfect condition.

This is a stated first edition of The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta, by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It is a psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary and the account of an old friend's struggle to understand him. The novel probes the long and checkered history of radical politics in Latin America, by recounting the investigation into a failed rebellion led by Alejandro Mayta and a young military officer named Vallejos in Jauja, a town in the Peruvian highlands, in 1958. In each of the novel's first nine chapters, the narrator researches the uprising, interviewing participants in the rebellion and individuals connected to its organizers. This book was a gift; the jacket is price-clipped and the recipient wrote his name on the front endpaper--he later crossed it out, and it is small. There is no evidence that he read it though. There is the tiniest amount of shelfwear to the jacket; the rest of the book is pristine.

The Story-Teller (El Hablador) is the 10th novel of the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa (1936-), who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The story tells of Saúl Zuratas, a university student who leaves civilization and becomes a "storyteller" for the Machiguenga Native Americans. The novel discusses the Westernization of indigenous peoples through missions and through anthropological studies, and questions the notion that indigenous cultures are unchanging.
This is the stated first edition, second printing.
Unclipped dust jacket. 246 pages.
It has not been read, or even opened. It is in pristine condition with no marks of any kind in it or on it.

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