Central & South America from Louise Aird

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… Read more about this item

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.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

June 1, 1987. 118 Pages, no label or barcode Cover: Seed Packets for Meals, by Roz Chast Switzerland, Brasil, Avigdor Arikha See Table of Contents Scan 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… Read more about this item

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 See Table of Contents Scan 114 Pages, Minor wear to the edges… Read more about this item

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 … Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item