Latin America from Lorne Bair Rare Books

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… Read more about this item

San Francisco: La Raza Silkscreen Center, 1978. First Edition. Limited issue, no. 4 of 40 signed copies; this copy inscribed to poet Edgar Bowers: "For Edgar Bowers / from a clumsy admirer," signed, undated. 12mo. Staple-bound card wrappers; [24]pp. Fine, unworn copy. A brief collection of poems organized around the theme of "escape from the ghetto" (from… Read more about this item

New York: Orbis Books, 1986. First Paperback Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's original photographic card wraps. 214pp. Light wear to edges and spine ends with a touch of creasing to the upper rear corner, a strong, good looking copy with a little toning of the laminate to the white rear panel. Mostly internally clean, with several pages having an unusual… Read more about this item

N.p. [Managua?]: Direccion General de divulgacion y Prensa de la J.G.R.N., [1983]. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial card wrappers, 55pp, illus. Mild evidence of use, stil tight, clean and unmarked. A Very Good or better copy. Text entirely in Spanish. Ortega's speech before the United Nations General Assembly in September 1983. Ortega used the occasion to strongly denounce the… Read more about this item

Santo Domingo: ECD, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on title page to the prominent Puerto Rican political scientist Manuel Maldonado Denis (1933-1992), signed and dated in year of publication. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers, 129pp. Tight, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Denis' ownership signature appears on inside of rear wrapper.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016. First Edition. First printing; paperback issue (issued simultaneously in cloth). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xii,187pp. A fine, tight, unmarked copy.

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… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: Editorial Losada, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Edition of 6000 copies. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 110pp. Slight external rubbing and wear; ownership signature to front endpaper of Roberto Márquez, noted American scholar, editor, and author. Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Text entirely in Spanish. The fourth of eight posthumous collections to appear in… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1953. Third printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 366pp; 8 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, straight, and unmarked - a Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, Very Good or better. Narrative of the author's exploration of the Gran Pajonal of eastern Peru, in search of the so-called… Read more about this item

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.… Read more about this item

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. First University of Texas Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-298,[6]pp. Light wear to extremities, two tiny corner creases, with an original price sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. Reissue of the Brazilian author's 1881 novel, "a scathing exposé of his native city, São Luis do Maranhão. Polemic as well as love story,… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1946. Third printing. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in red cloth and black and white pictorial dust jackets; vol. I: [ii],[xvi],414pp; vol. II: [34]pp, 306 plates. A sturdy set, with fading at spine ends matching chips to jackets, browning to front endpapers of vol. I front old newspaper clipping, else clean: Very Good. Jackets price-clipped, rubbed with… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1842. New Edition." 10th or later edition. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in brown 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. With the bookplate of Welsh politician… Read more about this item

New York: Whittlesey House, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; dustjacket; 366pp; frontispiece and 14 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Spine and cover gilt a bit dulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap) with neatly-repaired tear at crown… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Early reprint. Octavo (24cm). Two volumes in grey-green cloth titled in gilt on spines, boards blindstamped; yellow coated endpapers; xl,527,[1]pp; [xx],547,[1]pp; frontispiece portraits, map in vol. I, additional plate in vol. II. Multiple ownership inscriptions to endpapers, some contemporary. Sound but rubbed with minor wear to board edges, foxed throughout: Very Good. The… Read more about this item

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1984). First Edition. First printing. Cloth issue. Octavo; black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 111,(1)pp. Fine, in a fine, original and unclipped dustwrapper. An apparently unread copy.

East Haven: Curbstone Press, 2002. First English Language Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; xxii,263pp. A very fresh, Fine copy, apparently unread. Bilingual edition, with facing Spanish and English text. Definitive English-language edition of the Honduran revolutionary poet's later work, spanning the decade of the 1990s.

New York: Curbstone Press, 1987. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xviii,19-503pp. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Para la camarada Kendra Alexander y adelante con la lucha solidaria con el pueblo Salvadoreño y Centroamerica," signed by Miguel Mármol, dated 1988. Mild bumps to board corners, a bit of rippling to cloth on spine, still Near… Read more about this item

New York: New Directions, 1980. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 106pp. Clean, tight and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly toned at extremities, still Near Fine.