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The Rough Riders
by Theodore Roosevelt
In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas desert and then set sail for Cuba. Over the course of the summer, Roosevelt's Rough Riders fought valiantly, and sometimes recklessly, in the Cuban foothills, incurring casualties at a far greater rate than...
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The Serpent and The Rainbow
by Davis Wade
In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis -- people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti --... Read more about this item
The Traveller's Tree
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was an intrepid traveler, a heroic soldier, and a writer with a unique prose style. After his stormy schooldays, followed by the walk across Europe to Constantinople that begins in A Time of Gifts (1977) and continues through Between the Woods and the Water (1986), he lived and traveled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago. His books Mani (1958) and Roumeli (1966) attest to his deep interest in languages and remote places. In the Second World War he joined the...
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The Cuban Story
by Herbert L Matthews
A personal interpretation of the Cuban revolution and its impact on the United States and on Latin America by the noted New York Times correspondent and editor.
Havana Dreams
by Wendy Gimbel
Wendy Gimbel made many childhood visits to the family of her paternal grandmother in pre-Castro Cuba. She later went on to receive a Ph.D. in English literature, and is the author of a scholarly book on Edith Wharton. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Mirabella, The Nation, and other publications. She has two grown sons and lives with her husband in New York City.From the Hardcover edition.
Caribbean Books & Ephemera
Hombres Representativos de Puerto Rico
by Adolfo De Hostos
San Juan, PR: Imprenta Venezuela, 25 Abril 1961. Paperback. Good. wrpas. cover has various marks, interior text clean and unmarked pages, index in rear 206 pagesListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International...
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A$24.61
Fitted Knits: 25 Designs for the Fashionable Knitter
by Japel, Stefanie
North Light Bks, 2007-02-06. Paperback. As New. 10x8x0. like new, name label on coverListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs please use asendia for the cheapest rates worldwide!
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A$3.75
Puerto rico: developement by Integration into the U.S
by Eliezer Curet
Cultural, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. no signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tightListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs please use asendia...
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A$14.06
![St. Thomas Negroes - A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/741/572/1321572741.0.b.0.jpg)
St. Thomas Negroes - A Study of Personality and Culture. [Psychological Monographs, Vol. 55, No. 5]
by Albert A. Campbell [Albert Angus Campbell]; John F. Dashiell, editor
Evanston, Ill.: The American Psychological Association, Inc., 1943. [1], [1], v, 90pp. Serial. 10 x 7 inches. Gray printed wrappers; side stapled. Inscribed by the author on upper cover: "To Dr. Arthur Roper with regards of the writer." Filing annotation in ink on upper cover; upper wrapper and preliminary leaves lightly creased at bottom corner; very good. A psychological and sociological study of African Americans living in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The text discusses slavery, the...
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A$70.31
War and Genocide in Cuba, 1895-1898 (Envisioning Cuba)
by Tone, John Lawrence
The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. 8x6x0. no signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tightListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International...
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A$23.44
Deutsch: Kernstufe : a beginning course in German (German Edition
by by Gerald E Logan (Author)
Newbury House Publishers; 3rd edition (January 1, 1976). Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. nice clean yellow cloth cover, text and pages cleanListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs...
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A$35.16
![Counter-Revolutionary Agent. [Diary of the Events Which Occurred in Cuba Between January and July 1961. [Bay of Pigs Invasion]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/513/054/1514054513.0.b.2.jpg)
Counter-Revolutionary Agent. [Diary of the Events Which Occurred in Cuba Between January and July 1961. [Bay of Pigs Invasion]
by Hans Tanner
London: G.T. Foulis & Co., Ltd. (1962). Illustrated. Near fine in a very good lightly-rubbed and lightly-soiled dustwrapper, not price-clipped. First edition, first impression. Publisher's review copy of this illustrated "diary of the events which occurred in Cuba between January and July 1961." The author positions himself as one of the leaders of the ill-fated CIA-sponsored brigade to oust, without success, Fidel Castro from power: "'El Suizo' by which name Mr. Tanner is known and hunted by the...
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A$156.25
The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
New York Review Books, 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 403 pages with index, additional section on unnumbered pages of about 50 b&w photos by A. Costa, each with a substantial caption verso; a few b&w drawings elsewhere in book. Introduction by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, photos by A. Costa. NYRB Classics series edition of book first published 1950. Trade paperback, minimal shelf wear, light smudges to wraps and edges, pages bright and unmarked.
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A$17.19
The Pearl of the Antilles. A View of the Past and a Glance at the Future
by Frederic M. Noa
New York: [Knickerbocker Press], 1898. xiii, [1 (blank)], 84pp. First edition. Sm. 8vo. Publisher's cloth; top edge gilt. Minor rubbing at extremities and old owner's name neatly written to blank endpaper; Very Good. Concise analysis of Cuban political history, their struggle for autonomy in the face of Spanish atrocities, and the causes of the Spanish-American War. Writing after Admiral Dewey's victory at Manila Bay in the Philippines, author Frederick M. Noa sought to build popular support for the...
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A$117.19
Cancion Cruzada. Prologo de Emilio Ballagas
by Acacia Hernández Jiménez and Aída Hernández Jiménez; Prologue by Emilio Ballagas
[La Habana (Havana), Cuba:] La Verónica, (1940). [Colophon: "Viñeta de Ernesto González: Puig"]. 67pp. 6¾ x 5 inches. Stiff printed wrappers. Ownership initials and date on half title. Bookseller's rubber stamp on endpaper: "Libreía 'La Palabra' Reina 210 - Habana." Covers with soil; spine expertly mended; good. A joint collection of poetry by Acacia and Aída Hernández Jiménez, with a foreword by Emilio Ballagas. OCLC returns only University of Miami and two copies in Spain.
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A$156.25
Miralda, das Negermädchen, oder die schwarze Nachtigall der Habana
by Herchenbach, Wilhelm (1818-1889)
Regensburg: Verlag von Georg Joseph Manz, 1862. Small Octavo. 156, [4] pages + four inserted plates. Original quarter leather and papered boards; rubbed and worn with small corner stress fracture to lower cover; two leaves with loss affecting eight words; lacks rear free endpaper. Second edition of this 19th century tale about Miralda, a 12-year old girl of mixed racial identity, and the "black nightingale of Havana." In "What's in a name? A historical source for William Wells Brown's Miralda," scholar...
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A$1,953.12
Beautiful Havana. Habana Bella
by [Unkwn.]
Havana, Cuba: Published C. Jordi. Box 2334, c.1929. [18] leaves of plates. View Book. 8¼ x 10¼ inches. Color printed wrappers; stapled. Color illustrations on rectos and versos captioned in English and Spanish. English-language text on front endpaper; Spanish-language text of rear endpaper. Wrappers separated at lower spine with short tear to upper cover at staple; brief wear at fore-edge; otherwise, very good. Vibrant souvenir color view book of Havana, Cuba with over 50 illustrations depicting the...
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![Welcome. Retain this Invitation... [Advertisement Card for Tropical Beer of Cuba]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/572/1321572769.0.b.0.jpg)
Welcome. Retain this Invitation... [Advertisement Card for Tropical Beer of Cuba]
by [Nueva Fabrica de Hielo]
[Habana, Cuba]: [Nueva Fabrica de Hielo, ca. 1930s?]. Color lithographic trade card printed on thick card stock. Approx. 5 x 3 ½ inches. Fine condition. Trade card for the Cuban brewery, Nueva Fabrica de Hielo, makers of Tropical Beer. Their trade card offered an invitation to the company's tropical gardens with a promise of entertainment and "Free Beer!" guaranteeing a "permanent smile and everlasting pep you'll only find in cristal [sic] beer". We imagine this pitch card was geared towards American...
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General systems theory and human communication
by Ruben, Brent D. [Other Contributor]; Kim, John Y. [Other Contributor];
Hayden Book Co, 1975-01-01. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair dj. 9x6x1. Physical book good+, clean tight, very lite discolor, former owners initials.dj has wear and tear but intactListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental...
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A$3.75
The Cuban impact The sound of the flute : romance, history, and faith for a new age
by Fajardo, Raoul J
Literary Renewal Books. Very Good-. 1981. Paperback. 0940774003 . Very good paperback with tight binding and clean pages. Minimal shelf wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Spine and back cover are slightly discolored from sun exposure. ; 8.20 X 5.20 X 0.40 inches; 132 pages .
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A$31.25
La Estrategia de Estados Unidos y La Militarizacion del caribe
by Humberto Garcia Muniz (Author), La Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico (Editor)
1988. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. good, clean, tight, only minor wearListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5 lbs please use asendia for the cheapest rates worldwide!
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A$17.58
The serpent and the rainbow: a Harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret society of Haitian voodoo, zombis and magic
by Davis, W
Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine. Little used.
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A$19.50
Havana Dreams: A Story of a Cuban Family
by Wendy Gimbel
Paperback / softback. New.
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A$30.92
The Cuban Story: A Personal Interpretation of the Cuban Revolution and Its Impact on the United States and on Latin America
by Herbert L Matthews
Paperback / softback. New.
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A$82.09
Fernando Chardon Integridad y Valentia al servicio de Puerto rico
by Hector Luis Acevedo
Universidad Interamericana, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no dust cover. 10x5x1. no signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tight, IllustratedListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches...
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Diario Economico de Puerto Rico 1814-1815 tomo 1 y 2
by Emilio M.Colon
Coqui, 1972. segunda de primera ed 1814-1815. Hardcover. Good/Good. dust covers have some minor tears over VF grey cloth cover with gold print, Pges V clean and unmarkedListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR...
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A$175.78
La Economia del Hemisferio Occidental
by Toynbee
La Torre UPR, PR, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover, beautiful brown cloth. Very Good. VF cloth cover, red and black lettering, 88 pg, index in rearListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under 5...
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A$33.98
Fidel Castro biografia
by RAMONET IGNACIO
RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORI\GRIJALBO PLAZA J, 2010-01-01. Paperback. Good+/no dust cover. 0x0x0. clean tight pages, slight tone to edge, book works wellListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders under...
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Religiones en Puerto Rico
by Jose Lazaro ramos
Publicaciones Puertorriquenas, 2001. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. no signs of cover wear, clean glossy, pages clean, bright and unmarked, spine tightListing Includes Books Image . Please email me if you need to see more pictures! The orders are processed promptly, carefully packaged and shipped within 1 day of purchase. PLEASE NOTE! if you need the book quickly, please Purchase Priority Shipping.Media will not show updates in mail confirmation till reaches continental U.S. FOR International orders...
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A$39.84
![Freedom. Aug 1st 1834." [Slavery Abolition Act, subsequently known as Emancipation Day]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/831/1584831820.0.b.jpg)
Freedom. Aug 1st 1834." [Slavery Abolition Act, subsequently known as Emancipation Day]
by [Unk.]
[London? n.p., mid-19th century]. Colored lithograph. 7 x 9¼ inches. Trimmed and tipped-on, along one edge, to a larger and heavier cream sheet measuring 10 x 11 inches; small portions from two of the print's corner tips are affixed to this larger sheet. In pencil on the verso, "N. America" with an old price in English pounds. A rich vibrant image. This vibrant and allegorical nineteenth-century print commemorates the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of August 1st, 1834, which subsequently became...
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