Harmony Place, Brattleboro, VT: The Yale University Press, 1946. Paperback. 384p., wrps (chipped covers, heavily yellowing around edges). This issue features an article on Brazil, by acclaimed New York Times Journalist, Hubert Herring, (d.1967). More
Washington, D. C. General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 1970s. First edition, presumed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 116 p., b/w photos, Algunos de los autores que cuya obra aparece en este libro son: Mario Benedetti, Homero Ardijis, Nicanor Parra, Jose Donoso, Enrique Lihn, etc. More
Santo Domingo: The Author, 2005. First edition. Paperback. 382p., photos, glossary, bibl., wrps. Cases in domestic violence among Dominicans resident in New York based on personal testimony. More
Alcalá de Henares, España: Universidad de Alcalá: Centro de Estudios Norteamericanos, 1994. Paperback. 566p., tables, bibl., wrps, (light wear to front and back covers). Features the following studies: "El Poder Hispano en la Corte Federal y de los Estados", "The Political Culture of Mexican Los Angeles, 1910-1940", "Images and Self..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Editôra Civilização Brasileira, (Cadernos do Povo Brasileiro, Vol. 17), 1963. Paperback. 141p., tables, wrps (yellowing, pages yellowing). Definition and examples of Imperialism and its role in World History. With sections on Capitalism, Latin America, Foreign Relations and World War II. Includes notes. More
Mexico City: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social/Editorial Nueva Imagen, 1981. First edition. Paperback. 258p., illus., tables, bibl., wrps (pencil markings to pp. 33). With chapters on public education for Chicanos, bilingual education, and education in Texas and San Diego (four studies). More
México: The Author, 1986. First edition. Paperback. 115p., bibl., wrps. More
New York: Catalan Communications, 1990. First edition, presumed. Hardcover. 4to, wrps, 45 p., color graphic illus. Graphic novel of a fantastic notion in which a plant looks for love in all the wrong human places. More
Cuernavaca, Morelos: Instituto de Cultura de Morelos, (Colección: La Sombra del Viajero; Serie: Literatura), 2009. First edition. Paperback. 41,(2)p., wrps. Anthology of poetry, created during Ernesto Cardenal's, (1925) time as a monk in Gethsemani, Kentucky. "Cardenal is Nicaraguan Catholic priest and was one of the most famous liberation theologians of..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2009. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 388 p.; [8 plates], index, bibl., notes, photos, b/w photos, illus. The first-ever book on the history of Korda’s photo, this volumen explores how a single two-tone image has sustained Guevara as both an enduring symbol of resistance and a...... More
New York: Atheneum, (Atheneum, No. 40), 1963. Revised. Paperback. 484p., maps, illus., tables, bibl., index, wrps (lightly yellowing, blue pen underlining to pages throughout). The material examines modern Mexico, reflecting its ancient characteristics, society, wars/ revolutions, the econony and the industrialization of Mexico. More
Boston: South End Press, 1986. Paperback. 66p., tables, graphics, wrps. With a Central American resource guide appended. More
Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1978. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 204 p., illus. DIscusses the rise of comics in North America, their cultural resonance, influence and dialogue with cinema, export, connection to the plastic arts, place in the history of literarture, influence abroad and role in politics (war and progaganda)... More
Buenos Aires: Grupo Abierto Libros, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. xii; 417, (2)p., lrg. fldg. map, photos, illus., facsimiles, glossary, indices, boards, cloth, dj. Historical exploration into the the social and educative impacts of Northamerican teachers in Argentina during the administration of Argentine activist, intellectual writer, and seventh President of Argentina..... More
Hato Rey, Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1998. Paperback. xix, 423p., glossary, wrps. Novel of Puerto Rican life in New York. More
[South Bend, Indiana]: University of Notre Dame, 2006. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 210 p., index, bibl., illus. “For years, anthropologists have been interested in jogo de bicho as a key Brazilian institution. We now have an English translation uniting Roberto DaMatta’s theoretical acumen and knowledge of Brazil with Elena Soarez’s field..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. Hardcover. Octavo, boards, dj., 152 p., notes, index. Criticism on the political relationship between Haiti and the United States during the post-occupation period. More
Lima: ICPNA, 2005. 1st ed. Paperback. Large 4to, wrps, 114 pp., semi glossy stock, illus., photos., bibl. With an essay on the US-born (1946) artist by Luis Eduardo Wuffarden, and a photo-illustrated biographical chronology. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2004. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 256 p., index, bibl., notes, maps. In May 2001, two dozen Mexican workers struck out across the U.S. border, plunging into the forbidding desert of southern Arizona with little water. Three days later, following a frenzied search by U.S. Border..... More
Mexico City: El Colegio de México: Centro de Estudios Económicos , (Documento de Trabajo, No. 1985-II), 1985. Staplebound. 40, (16)p., illus., tables, facsimile, wrps. 4to. From Abstract: "This paper represents an application of theories of speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes and of optimal investment banking contracts to the..... More
Miami: Interamerican Institute for Democracy, 2011. 1st ed. Paperback. 8vo, wrps, 253 p., notes, bibl. "this is possibly the best book on Garcia Hamilton. Enrolled in the stream that puts the weight of the difficultties of Latin america in the cultural issue, Garcia Hamilton brings his historian background to delve..... More
Port-au-Prince, The Author, 1998. Paperback. 66p., photos, bibl., wrps. Explains the roles and duties of the US presidency in numerous of its aspects. More
Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International Sudies: Center for Latin American Studies, (Monographs in International Studies; Latin America Series Number 13), 1988. Paperback. xi; 217, (6)p., wrps. Features the following sections: "Roman Catholic Underpinnings of Gomez's Thought", "Liberal and Positivist Elements", "Between World Wars: Latin American Conservatism Embattled" and..... More
New Orleans, Marielos, 1991. Paperback. 85p., maps, illus., plans,glossary, bibl., wrps. Useful guide to New Orleans that includes some of the- less-obvious atrations. With a direcory. More
Los Angeles, California: Fantagraphics Books, 1985. 1st book edition. Paperback. 4to, wrps, 145 p., illus. Gathered between these covers are the first two issues of Love an Rockets, and while the rockets in these stories seem to work not at all and the love only occasionally, the stories themselves work..... More
