Search Results: Mexico from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Chicago: Max Stein, N.d. [1900's]. 12mo. Pictorial yellow paper wrappers, printed in blue and red, 67,(1)pp. Upper wrapper with two tiny (ca 1/16") perforations and small chip at corner; upper corner of text bumped, with resulting brief losses at corner; pulp-paper text toned as usual and a big fragile; still Very Good. A well-preserved copy. In the publisher's "Cowboy Series," all eighteen titles of which were written by the French-American author Gustave Aimard (1818-1883). The titles in this series, according to LeBlanc, are reissues of stories originally published in George Munro's "Boys' Dashaway" series.

Zürich: Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First German Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; 255pp. Some trivial wear to spine ends, else Fine. Dustjacket is lightly edgeworn, with several short edge tears (a few archivally mended on verso) and some minor touch-up to the black portions at spine ends; overall a bright, Very good+ example. Third book in Traven's Mahogany series, and the first of his books published by the new Büchergile Gutenberg in Zurich following the appropriation of the Berlin press by the Nazi's in May 1933. The novel was not published in English until 1961, when Robert Hale released it under the title March to Caobaland; the American edition, retitled March to the Monteria, is a reprint of the UK edition that was published by Dell as a mass market paperback in 1964. It tells the story of Celso, a Mexican Indian peasant trapped into debt slavery in a mahogany (caoba) camp deep in the jungle, which… Read More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Tight, square, and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, priced on front flap, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good. Account of American imperial adventures throughout the Caribbean and Latin America in the years between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Includes a good account of the female filibuster Jane McManus Cazneau.

N.p., n.d. [Hopedale: 1848?]. 16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is given as Jan. 24, 1848 at close of text; this pamphlet was likely printed soon after that date, as Wright's sequel, titled The Employers of Dick Crowninshield, was composed in March of the same year and makes reference to the current work in its foreword. In typical Wright fashion, a contrarian point of view - here, radical non-resistance - is stretched to its logical limits by unflattering analogy. Wright, the idiosyncratic radical abolitionist, feminist, pacifist, freethinker and proto-anarchist, compares Zachary Taylor's actions at the Battle of Monterey to nothing more than murder for hire, building his analogy around… Read More

[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [1999]. First Edition. Square quarto (25.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 207pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Handsome pictorial work on the Mexican muralist.

New York: Harper and Brothers, [1916 & 1917]. First Editions. First printings, with correct letter codes on versos of title pages. Octavo. First title in deep green cloth; gilt titles; top edge gilt; x,356pp; frontis; 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Second title in brick red cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; x,338pp; frontispiece and fifteen unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Both volumes tight and square with; "Diplomat's Wife" with small stain to upper corner of front board, both Very Good or better. O'Shaughnessy was the wife of Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Chargé d'Affaires to Mexico during the Presidencies of Porfirio Díaz and Francisco Madero (1911-1913), through the coup of Victoriano Huerta and the assassination of Madero - events to which O'Shaughnessy was a real-time witness. These two works of epistolary memoir, extracted from O'Shaughnessy's letters home to her mother, established O'Shaughnessy's reputation. Her writing is brisk and… Read More

New York: Henry Holt, [1947]. First Edition. First printring. Octavo. Orange pictorial cloth; dustjacket; 233pp; illus. Tight and straight, free of markings; Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap) but slightly rubbed and chipped on both front and rear panels; just VG. Memoir of a Mexican-American citizen who joined the Mexican revolutionary forces at the age of eleven, deserted when still barely in his teens, was recaptured then succeeded in evading the U.S. Border Patrol to seek asylum in the U.S. Charmingly illustrated by California children's illustrator and author Leo Politi.

Jalisco, Guadalajara: Secretaria de Educacion y Cultura / Instituto Jalisciense de Antropologia e Historia, 1989. First Thus. Limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; xx,48pp. Light dust-soil to wrappers else Very Good or better. Facsimile reprint of the seven issues first published during the Mexican War of Independence, 1810-1811.

San Cristobal de las Casas: Subsecretaria de Cultura y Recreacion, [1983]. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 33, (6)pp; illus. Very Good. Bi-lingual primer, parallel Spanish and Tzotzil text; narrative of Spanish conquest for juvenile readers.

Chicago: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; blue publisher's top-stain, fore- and bottom edges uncut; 344pp; illus. Fine copy, in the publisher's original unprinted kraft-paper dustwrapper. Illustrations by the author. No. VII in the Frontier Military Series.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953-58. First Edition. First printings, issued under the auspices of the Fondo de Cultura Económica de Mexico. Two octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers in dustjacket. Primera Serie (1953), 208pp; Segunda serie (1958) 204pp. Ink ownership signature to each half-title, else clean, tight and unmarked in the original dustwrappers, lightly toned and edgeworn, still Very Good or better. Texts entirely in Spanish. Torres-Rioseco (1897-1971), Chilean literary critic and historian, was long-time professor of Latin American literature at U.C. Berkeley.

N.p. [New Yorki]: International Center of Photography, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies (this no. 74). Large folio. Emerald silk-covered boards in publisher's pictorial board slipcase; [44pp]; illus. Slipcase with a few minor surface scratches and mild bumps to corners, else Fine. Sensual, dramatic large-format black-and-white photographs of cacti and succulent plants by the Mexican photographer.

New York: Hill and Wang, 1972. First American Edition. Octavo; brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 280pp. Front endpaper slightly toned, else a clean, tight, unmarked copy in lightly rubbed jacket; Near Fine. Final book in Traven's Mahogany, or jungle, series. This edition reprints Vesey's translation from 1954, published in the UK by Robert Hale. TREVERTON 901, p.93.

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. First, Limited Edition. Number 235 of 895 numbered copies. Second state, with corrected text on p.52, that leaf a cancel. Octavo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; publisher's slipcase; 81pp. A Near Fine copy, a shade sunned on spine as usual. In the original slipcase, slightly rubbed and worn with some mild thumb-soil and toning at edges, Very Good. Porter's second book, a novella set among a group of Russian filmmakers in Mexico. The thirteenth and final production of Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott's Harrison of Paris press.

Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. First, Limited Edition. Number 78 of 895 numbered copies. Second state, with corrected text on p.52, that leaf a cancel. Octavo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase; 81pp. A Near Fine copy, a shade sunned on spine as usual. In the original slipcase, slightly toned with a slight bruise at open edge, Very Good. 4-pp Publisher's prospectus laid in. Porter's second book, a novella set among a group of Russian filmmakers in Mexico. The thirteenth and final production of Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Wescott's Harrison of Paris press.

Paris: A. & W. Galignani, 1844. First Continental edition. Second issue (? -see note below). Three octavo volumes (21cm). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards; xxiv,[1]-308; xiv,[1]-305; xiv,[1]-341pp; 2 folding maps. 3 vols. Very Good, in a well-preserved contemporary binding with some mild abrasions to leather spines and conspicuous but not catastrophic wear to board edges. Text in English. Ownership signature to each volume of a C.W. Orne (possibly Charles W. Orne, American consular agent to China in the 1850s). Uncommon edition of Prescott's popular history, which had first appeared in London a year earlier. The current edition, issued over the imprint of the Paris English-language bookselling firm of Galignani, appears identical in format with the Baudry printing of the same year, matching in pagination and utilizing the same maps engraved by Bentley for the London edition, but with a different title page. As both firms (Galignani and Baudry) were in the business of pirating the work… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [10], 292pp. Author's initials on front cover nearly rubbed off, with a small bruise to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+ in shelfworn, Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with a few small tears. Third World spy thriller by the Mexican author.

[Mexico]: Ediciones Era, [1973]. First Mexican Edition. Octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; 441pp. Jacket quite worn and chipped at extremities, old price sticker to upper panel, dampstaining to verso, boards rubbed; Good overall, internally clean and sound. Spanish translation of collected articles first published in the newspaper "Il Manifesto," founded and edited by Rossana Rossanda, a leading member of the Italian Communist Party, though her criticism of the Soviet Union led to her expulsion from the Party shortly thereafter.

Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original printed staplebound self-wrappers; iv,107pp.; illus. Slight creasing to text, still Near Fine. Report of investigations held in the states of California and Texas, complete with photographic evidence involving marijuana, cocaine, and automatic weapons used against Cuban drug lord Alberto Sicilia-Falcon.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly rubbed with minor board exposure at corners, internally quite fresh, free of foxing or soil; easily Very Good. Stephens (1805-1852) and his traveling companion, illustrator Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), explored 44 Mayan sites which were all but unknown in North America, and thus reintroduced the ancient Mayan civilization to the Western world. This work, the first of two that the pair published on the topic, "not only contained graphic accounts of the social and political condition of Central America but also the revelation of a new and rich field of archaeological research. It sold 12,000… Read More