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1957réf. 002949New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good-. 4to. xvi 360 xviii 2 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over natural cloth stamped in gilt and silver on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with full-color plates black and white in-text illustrations and black and white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. First Edition stated on copyright page. This is the second volume in what was to be a three-volume work on the aboriginal arts of the Americas but Covarrubias passed away in 1957 and the third volume covering South America was never completed. Very Good previous owner's name in ink to front free pastedown otherwise internally clean and sharp hinges tight and square binding has minor age-toning and wear to extremities but is otherwise bright and clean in Very Good- dust jacket with a 1-1/2" tear to upper edge of front cover near spine three long scuff marks to lower half of front cover sunning to spine and upper half of front cover overall age-toning and light soiling. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1954réf. 002948New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. 4to. xviii 314 xii 2 pp. Bound in quarter black cloth over natural cloth stamped in gilt and red on cover and spine in illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with full-color plates black and white in-text illustrations and black and white photographs. Includes bibliography and index. First Edition stated on copyright page. This is the first volume in what was to be a three-volume work on the aboriginal arts of the Americas but Covarrubias passed away in 1957 and the third volume covering South America was never completed. Very Good minor age-toning to endpapers internally clean and bright hinges tight small patch of foxing to upper right corner and along top edge of front cover otherwise bright and clean in Very Good dust jacket previous owner has used black marker to mask wear at head of spine a few water stains and minor sunning to spine rubbing and wear to all extremities a few short tears to edges. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
réf. 18170Santiago Dominican Republic: 1980. 63pp. illus. brown cloth folio: near Fine in a Good dj. An attractive collection of over 40 large sketches and architectural drawings a few in color of old buildings in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic. Santiago, Dominican Republic hardcover
1928réf. 21658New York: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good-. Third Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light bumping to one corner. A bit of browning to first and last few pages. Small discoloration of boards near fore edges and a small spot to the spine.; Numerous charts fold-out maps in color b&w photographs - a very thorough guidebook to The Bermudas The Bahamas Cuba Jamaica Santo Domingo Haiti Porto Rico Saint Thomas and Virgin Islands Saint Kitts Nevis Monserrat Antigua Barbuda Guadeloupe Dominica Martinique St. Lucia Saint Vincent Barbados Grenada and the Grenadines Tobago Trinidad Panama and the Canal Zone. Additionally with a short Glimpse of South America.; 16mo 7" - 7½" tall; ix 533 pages . 1928. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
2006réf. 22892ELos Angeles: Walt Disney Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films 2006. Original World Premiere Movie Invitation for the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest dated June 24 2006 to be screened at Disneyland in Anaheim CA. The invitation is a single sheet folded to measure 5” x 7”. Illustrated on the front panel with the film’s principal actors. The text at the interior suggests that guests wear ‘’Pirate Wear’. In fine condition. The second of the Pirates of the Caribbean series the film was directed by Gore Verbinski and stars Johnny Depp Keira Knightley Orlando Bloom Stellan Skarsgard Tom Hollander Jack Davenport Jonathan Pryce and Lee Arenberg. The film won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for 3 more; Best Sound Mixing Best Sound Editing and Best Art Direction. Johnny Depp was also nominated for a Golden Globe Best Actor - Comedy or Musical. Walt Disney Pictures / Jerry Bruckheimer Films unknown
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réf. ria9789211220513_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Outlines the region's economic performance in 2019 and analyses trends in the early months of 2020 and the outlook for the rest of the year. The report examines factors that have influenced the region's economic performance analyses th paperback
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réf. ria9789211220308_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Analyses issues crucial to understanding and action given the structural challenges facing the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the current economic and social situation especially in the context of the transformations u paperback
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réf. ria9789211220698_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Examines the social impact of an unprecedented crisis. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have spread to all areas of human life altering the way we interact crippling economies and bringing about profound changes in societies. The paperback
1985réf. 020353Taipei 1985. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Color Plates Throughout. 58 Pp Catalog All Text In Chinese. 11" Tall. Signed And Dated By The Artist. He Devoted Himself To Traditional And Contemporary Ink Painting Inherited The Essence Of Chinese Millennium Painting And Calligraphy And Opened Up Opportunities For The Reform Of Contemporary Ink Painting Which Set A Paradigm For New Ink Painting In The World Of Chinese Art For This Century. He Taught In Taiwan For Half A Century And Cultivated Countless Art Students. His Influence Is Profound. paperback
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réf. 17669Reprinted from April 1947 issue of International Affairs. Published Quarterly for the Royal Institute of International Affairs London by the University of Toronto Press. 8pp. 8vo paginated 213-220 with separate title page. In fair condition aged and worn with rusted staples. Address given at Chatham House on December 17 1946.' Stockdale explains how 'The Anglo-American Commission was established on March 9 1942 for the purpose of encouraging and strengthening social and economic co-operation between the United States of America its territories and bases in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom and the British West Indian Colonies. . President Roosevelt . was largely instrumental in the formation of the Commission and selected Mr. Charles W. Taussig as senior representative of the United States.' No other copies of this offprint traced either on OCLC WorldCat or COPAC. Reprinted from April 1947 issue of International Affairs. Published Quarterly for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, unknown
1928Please note: This copy lacking its covers. First and last pages loose but present. Features: Canada in the Great War (Part 2) - The stirring record of 'the men behind the guns' - and of our wemen, too - photo illustrated article; The Crushing Horde - fiction from the north; Doctor to the Poor Fish - a free clinic for ailing aquarium pets; Canadian Sprinter Percy Williams (Peerless Percy) - Winner of the 100 and 200 metre Olympic sprints; Down Three Steps (short story); She Lika da Jazz (short story); Did They 'Get' Bulldog Kelly? - a tale of the North West Mounted; Prosperity's Leap From the Bush - The successful Canadian pulp and paper industry - photo-illustrated article; The Winking Satyr (short story); Our Population Problem (Part 4) - a suggestion that our need for people be solved by transplanting British industries; A Little Way Ahead (part 6); Beautiful one-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features waterfall and rainbow; Daily Newspapers Under Fire; Gorgeous one-page colour-illustrated ad for Quaker Puffed Rice features boy and girl at table; Nice one-page colour ad for Canadian National Steamships features their cruises to the Caribbean; Lovely one-page colour ad for Wahl-Eversharp Gold Seal Pens; Teaching Etiquette to Children; Crossword on page 78 has been completed; Jacobean Embroidery. A worthy reference copy. Book
196088 pages. Short Stories: Rigged Race; Not Her Kind; The Tailor's Secret; Challenge in the Sky. Novelette: The Hands of Cormac Joyce. Articles: The Difference Between Black and White; Bowling is Booming; The Face of America - Great color photo of digging out from deep snow in Oswego New York; Tales of the Laundry Sleuths - these investigators discover the causes of mystery rips and stains which occasionally plague laundries and irritate customers; Castro, Trujillo and Turmoil - a report from the uneasy, strategic Caribbean, where the Communists are exploiting political unrest to turn Latin Americans against the US - with many photos, including Che Guevara; Our Urban Revolution - Can We Halt the Chaos? (conclusion); Big, Happy Family - The Soldi clan of Italy has 31,000 members; Riddle of the Frozen Giants - what may have killed the prehistoric mammoths. Ads: Calvert Reserve - with sexy lady eating from her partner's toothpick; Dodge Trucks - with push-button transmission; Seven-Up (7up) - one-man-band entertains his lady; Campbell's Soup; Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight (98); Tareyton cigarettes; Colgate toothpaste; U.S. Savings Bonds; Great one-page Budweiser color-photo ad features lady looking over her shoulder; International Trucks; Nice color-photo Coke ad on back cover features debutante being offered Cokes by four young men. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1983159 pages. "Deserted by his wife Estella, Jake is engaged in the symbolic carving of Samson whose story is not unlike his own." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1962Features: The unfolding tragedy of drug-deformed babies - side effects of a new drug called thalidomide are causing tragic deformities in newborn Canadian babies; The Slapstick Saga of the S.S. Tropic Sea - she'd been a virtuous lady on the Great Lakes, but she was a notorious tramp in the Caribbean and sailed into piracy, gunplay and mutiny, or so the rumours went; How the NAACP Plots the Negro Revolution; The only Canadian the Chinese ever heard of - Dr. Norman Bethune is one of China's five national heroes; How John Bassett, businessman, became a celebrity; Ask the name of the lion - part 2 of Ralph Allen's novel of the new Congo; The Bankruptcy Racket - many of Canada's 1,500 bankruptcies a year are deliberate, planned frauds in which everybody is bilked but the bankrupt and his friends; The New Wave in Canadian Music - Ronald Turini, Marek Jablonski, Richard Gresko, Zubin Mehta and Boris Brott. Additional story: Japanese join Canadian whalers off B.C.'s coast. Nice colour Pepsi ad on page 49. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
196784 pages. Features: John Gerald Benson - Banana Doctor; China's handmade "Red Flag" luxury auto - only 400 exist; Mistaseni Rock is blown to bits behind the future site of the Gardiner Dam; The Caribbean - our sunny new frontier; Canadians in the Caribbean - they've found their own personal paradise; The pleasures of paradise in the Caribbean; Dalton Camp - the man who finally belled the cat; Big-Money Cattle - Holsteins have been taken over by the jet set; Comeback for the one-room school?; Could India Feed Us?; The Lonely death of Charlie Wenjack; Edna - where are you?; The Eccentric oracle of Barrett's Landing, Nova Scotia; Full-page Volvo car ad; Canadiana - Gerald Stevens' column; Great full-page colour photo ad for the '67 Buick Skylark; Wonderful colour ad for Smirnoff Vodka featuring Zsa-Zsa Gabor wearing lots of diamonds. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1961128 pages. Features: Is the U.S. Losing Out in the Caribbean?; The Fourth of July - 1908; "Fair Play for America" Committee; The Fair Trae Racket; The Lost Colony of the Confederacy - A bizarre tale of a Colony of defeated Confederates who tried to start over again in South America; A Barber Speaks His Mind - things a customer should know in view of the rising price of haircuts; What Are You Reading These Days? - A critique that throws light on brainwashing techniques of the book and magazine publishers in America; Debatability of Fluoridation; Smith Street, U.S.A. - reprint of a 1939 article on the battle for democracy in the U.S.; Straight Talk; Nostalgia; Stage Fright - a common fear is explained; The Challenge of Underdevelloped Countries; Red Spies Plague America - an army of 300,000 spies steal military and atomic secrets; Underground "Noah's Ark" - man-made salt caverns in Kansas offer protection in the event of enemy attack; A "New" Task for the Church - the American home has become a real mission field; Old Warhorse Still in Harness - how Charlie Younts dealt with retirement; Exit the Aircraft Carrier; How to Prevent a Cold; Vi Murphy Keeps Her Word - courageous reporter goes to jail rather than betray news source; A Discovery That Changed the World - Paper; The Dalton Trumbo Trumpet - he was jailed in 1950 for contempt of Congress, has since written scripts for Exodus and Spartacus, and now receives adulation. Minimal markings. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy bearing the address label of noted Madison, WI architect William Kaeser. Book
195734 pages. Includes one page of photos and biographical information inside front cover. Songs include: Island in the Sun; Scratch, Scratch; Don't Ever Love Me; Lucy's Door; Coconut Woman; Haiti Cherie; Cordelia Brown; Angelique-O; Judy Drownded; Calypso Carnival; Brown Skin Girl; Balance. Above-average but not excessive wear. Minimal markings to contents. A sound vintage copy of this nostalgic compilation. Book
réf. 26675BORDEAUX G.BERTIN sd,plaque publicitaire sur carton; 80x50 cm;bon état
1676réf. PHO-2403Paris : Gervais Clouzier, 1676. 1 volume in-8 (16,5x10cm), 4ff.-153pp.-1f., veau époque, dos à nerfs orné avec auteur et tomaison, charnière fendillée, coiffes absentes, coins usés.
1938réf. z08233New York: Swedish-American Line 1938. Paperback. Very Good. Lot of information and souvenirs from a 1938 cruise aboard Swedish-American Line's Kunsholm motor liner from New York City to the Caribbean and West Indies. Includes several menus invitations to cocktails of liner stationary addressed to the passenger a passenger list a list of shore excursions a letter of welcome from the Swedish-American Line director and a souvenir booklet of "reminiscences" from the cruise. Illustrated wraps 8vo. Varying paginations with illustrations. Very good. Bending and some edgewear to items predominately clean and unmarked. A nice lot of materials for the cruise and travel enthusiast. Digital images available upon request. Swedish-American Line paperback
