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1999ref. 27114El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press 1999. First edition. Fine. First printing a bilingual children's book by the former spokesperson of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. A folktale from the jungles of Chiapas that promotes new ideas and free speech. This book by the Mexican insurgent known as Subcomandante Marcos has been the focus of much controversy because the chairman of the NEA cancelled the grant that provided funding for its publication. On the inside of the front flap Marcos is shown in full military regalia speaking to a crowd. Illustrated boldly in color on every page by Mexican folk artist Domitila Domínguez. Original glazed pictorial boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Domínguez in color throughout. Text in English and Spanish. 40 pages. Cinco Puntos Press unknown
1999ref. 02195El Paso TX: Cinco Puntes Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine in dustjacket. small 4to. First U.S. Edition originally published in Mexico in 1996 by Ediciones Colectivo Callejero Guadalajara Copyright page includes National Endowment for the Arts logo; erratum laid in saying NEA `has withdrawn previously committed funding' Cinco Puntes Press hardcover
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ref. 1685900518.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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2024ref. x-1685900518Monthly Review Pr 2024. Hardcover. New. new edition. 352 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.94 inches. Monthly Review Pr hardcover
1926ref. 65379Havana: imprenta de "Elf Figaro 1926. Second expanded and revised edition 4to pp. 256 4; 29 plates mostly portraits after photographs; original upper wrapper bound in; later brown calf gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; small snag at the top of the spine text clean and the binding is sound very good; The first edition of the Album poetico was published in 1868 and was the first anthology of Cuban women writers published. Beginning with the Condesa de Merlin each chapter includes a portrait plate save the final two entries a brief biography and poems and prose excerpts. The biographical section for Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda the author to whom the book is dedicated is significantly larger than the rest with additional plates showing her childhood home and a facsimile of a letter from her to Coronado. Avellaneda was a prolific and well-regarded author best known for her first novel Sab which was banned in Cuba for its sympathetic depiction of slavery and suggestions of interracial relations. Domitila Garcia de Coronado was likewise a well-established Cuban author activist publisher and printer and the first woman journalist in the country Negritas y Cursivas at wordpress. imprenta de "Elf Figaro unknown books
1926ref. 65379Havana: imprenta de "Elf Figaro 1926. Second expanded and revised edition 4to pp. 256 4; 29 plates mostly portraits after photographs; original upper wrapper bound in; later brown calf gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; small snag at the top of the spine text clean and the binding is sound very good; The first edition of the Album poetico was published in 1868 and was the first anthology of Cuban women writers published. Beginning with the Condesa de Merlin each chapter includes a portrait plate save the final two entries a brief biography and poems and prose excerpts. The biographical section for Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda the author to whom the book is dedicated is significantly larger than the rest with additional plates showing her childhood home and a facsimile of a letter from her to Coronado. Avellaneda was a prolific and well-regarded author best known for her first novel Sab which was banned in Cuba for its sympathetic depiction of slavery and suggestions of interracial relations. Domitila Garcia de Coronado was likewise a well-established Cuban author activist publisher and printer and the first woman journalist in the country Negritas y Cursivas at wordpress. imprenta de "Elf Figaro unknown
