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1990256 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
1948Stories: Murder Island; Land of still waters; an accessory after the fact; on the north-west frontier; the professor; Caribbean ordeal; the lion-man; twenty pigs; fighting the locust; the wide world in captivity; the dingo hunter. Front cover missing. Well-worn. Book
2005Fine English Original bdg. HC. 4to. (30 x 22 cm). In English and Turkish. 180 p., color and b/w photos. The world of Venezuelan Nogales Bey.= Venezuelali Nogales Bey'in dünyasi.
1960Best.-Nr. 025662Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations 1960. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dustjacket. Xiii 247. Orange Cloth. One Of 2000 Copies Of The First Printing But This Copy With Printed $5 Us Price At Bottom Of Front Flap So Perhaps An American Issue. Slight Signs Of Usage To Book And Dj. Inscribed To Mr. And Mrs. Z. T. Nyi Zau Tsung Nyi Of Los Angeles "With High Esteem And Respect". Information From His Archives At Usc: Theodore H.E. Chen Ph.D. 1939 Was Chairman Of Usc's Department Of Asian Studies From 1940 To 1968 And From 1960 To 1971 He Directed The East Asian Studies Center In Support Of Which He Had Obtained The First Federal Grants. Chen Also Secured Outside Funding For A Project To Help Train And Advise High School Teachers Of Chinese And Japanese. A Native Of Fuzhou China Chen Was President Of Fukien Christian University In 1946 And 1947 While On Leave To Participate In Postwar Rehabilitation. He Also Helped Organize Tunghai University In Taiwan As A Representative Of The United Board Of Christian Colleges. He Was The Author Of Nine Books Including Thought Reform Of Chinese Intellectuals And Maoist Educational Revolution And Chinese Education. Dr Chen Hits An Easy Target; The Worst Governments Are Those Who Try To Control What And How People Think And How And Where They Communicate Because Their Leaders Have An Excess Of The Oldest Disease Of Officials Crap-In-The-Brain Which Prevents Them From Engaging In Exchanges Of Facts And Ideas. Hong Kong University Press / Oxford University Press / Institute of Pacific relations hardcover
1903pp. xi, 282 + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings, photographs and a map. Uncut and unopened. Top edge gold. Bookplate of Charles P. Stahr. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding with gold decorated and lettered spine. Hardbound. Nice copy. Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) was a famous American author and journalist. In 1890 he became managing editor of Harper's Weekly and began making trips in its behalf to various parts of the world. As a foreign correspondent he covered all the wars of his day and published several books recording his experiences. His war dispatches were colorful and dramatic. His other writings include some of the best tales to come out of the Edwardian era. This lovely copy would make a fine gift. W53
197056 pages. Features: Interview with Hugo McPherson, formerly chairman of the NFB (National Film Board); Free-form FM and Montreal's CKGM-FM; Vancouver falconer George Galicz; Photo of Strom Thurmond after being pelted with marshmallows in Pittsburgh school last January; Storm clouds for the Weathermen; Article on Charles Manson and Linda Kasabian; Hero's welcome for Army Sergeant Esequiel Torres of Brownsville, Texas; The Deep River Ancient Muster; Yes from Nasser, Dilemma for Israel; The Points of Issue in the Hostile Middle East; Soviet AN-22 crashes into the North Atlantic while delivering relief supplies to Peru; Germany - the rocky road to recognition; Cambodia - the discreet U.S. Presence; The Caribbean - 'Tourism is Whorism"; Photo of Joe Pepitone sitting on Cadillac; Street Christians - Jesus as the ultimate trip; Color photos of art dealers Ben Heller, Sam Salz, Eugene Thaw, Michael Hall, Jane Wade, Charles Slatkin, Harold Diamond, and Harold Reed; Passing of Phillip J. Lucier, Jim G. Lucas, Iain Macleod, Barry Wood, Ilse Stanley and Panayotis Pipinelis; Major article and photo of singer Bessie Smith; The Old in the Country of the Young; The Prospects for Living Even Longer - Dr. Alex Comfort; A Kingdom Besieged - John M. King of Denver; Germany's Krupp rises again; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1994Signed 'Scott Stallard' to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. pp. Lavishly illustrated book with 117 mainly full-page coloured photographs of Bermuda and an introduction by Peter Benchley.
1859Slight wear to extremities. Foxing to first couple of pages, and last couple of pages. Booksellers' blindstamp to front free endpaper ; Best known for 'Two Years Before the Mast, ' Dana visited Cuba while Congress was deciding whether to annex the island nation; 8vo; 288 pages
2005Best.-Nr. 500098203ACTES SUD 2005 176 pages 21 4x1 4x10 8cm. 2005. Broché. 176 pages.
1980Best.-Nr. IA8-289th Caribbean Geological Conference 1980 1982 389 Pp. 1980. Personal Copy of Arthur A. Meyerhoff with his stamp; softcovers; minor shelfwear w/ small creases at corners of wraps and a few leaves; o/w in good condition. Soft Cover. Good. 9th Caribbean Geological Conference, 1980 (1982), 389 Pp. Paperback
2015Best.-Nr. 003694New York: Fundación Cisneros 2015. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to. 256 pp. Bound in silver gray cloth title in metallic blue on spine in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color illustrations throughout. Inscribed by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros on front free endpaper: "New York/Oct 2015/For Dick and Kathy-/sharing our great/love for Latin America/Enjoy!/Patty Gustavo" Fine bright clean copy in Fine dust jacket. [Fundación Cisneros] hardcover
19518vo., Second Impression, with frontispiece, numerous full-page photographs by Costa and double-page map on green stock, neat signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at extremities and with one short closed tear on front panel. Published a year after the first edition. The author's first book and a travel classic. EARLY PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
1965Best.-Nr. 2221599First edition. Small thin octavo. Preface by Felix B. Visillac. Original stiff tan wrappers stamped in black. Text browned due to paper quality. Very good. 54 pages. Signed and inscribed by author to poet Alicia Ghiragossian on title page. Direccion Lafuente paperback
1965Best.-Nr. 2221599First edition. Small thin octavo. Preface by Felix B. Visillac. Original stiff tan wrappers stamped in black. Text browned due to paper quality. Very good. 54 pages. Signed and inscribed by author to poet Alicia Ghiragossian on title page. Direccion Lafuente paperback books
1893Best.-Nr. R119893Paris, Victor Retaux 1893 [iv] + 451pp. avec illustrations dans le texte + 2 planches dépliantes (dont une carte), dédicacé par l'auteur, reliure cart. solide moderne, dos en toile bleue avec titre doré, 24cm., bon état, poids: 1.2 kg., R119893
1991Paperback. Good condition. Used
1893Best.-Nr. 26050Paris Victor Retaux et Fils 1893 In-8 451 pp, quelques illustrations in et hors texte, exemplaire non coupé, fils du brochage sectionnés , rousseurs sur la couverture
Trinidad, The Trinidad Publishing Co., Vuillé's Printerie, 1924. 4to.; II-156 pp. Con ilustraciones entre el texto y 6 láminas fotográficas dobles, aparte. Más 28 hojas con anuncios publicitarios. Cubiertas originales.
1890Best.-Nr. List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha” described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance” composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie” Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg. Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo” a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha” also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897. Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger” African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown
1890Best.-Nr. List3666New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co 1890. Folio sheet music illustrated pictorial cover printed in orange. 5 pp. including cover. Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. Covers detached loss to front cover contents complete fair to good. A decorative late nineteenth-century dance publication for “Trocha” described on the cover as “A Cuban Dance” composed by the African American composer and bandleader W. H. Tyers. The elaborate pictorial cover incorporates stylized tropical foliage and island scenery rendered in a bold single-color design typical for the period’s fascination with exoticized musical forms. William H. Tyers 1870–1924 was an African American composer arranger and bandleader active in New York during the ragtime era. Born in Petersburg Virginia to Henry Tyers and Jane “Jennie” Jones both formerly enslaved he spent part of his youth in Richmond before his family relocated to New York City where he began studying piano. His early teachers recognized an aptitude for composition as well as performance and by the mid-1880s he was writing dance pieces including polkas and waltzes. Around the age of twenty Tyers secured employment as a music librarian and arranger with a touring concert company a position that brought him to Europe where he studied orchestration and arranging with Professor Gaspari in Hamburg. Returning to New York Tyers became active in the city’s rapidly expanding popular music trade working as an arranger and composer for publishers including F. A. Mills and Jos. W. Stern & Co. In 1896 he published “Sambo” a syncopated march sometimes considered to be one of the first instrumental rags.1 “Trocha” also released in the 1980s brought Tyers prominence for his ability to write Latin-style rhythms. It was re-issued in 1913 as a tango and its success led Tyers to work as an arranger with Joseph W. Stern in 1897. Tyers’ compositions blended contemporary American dance music with Caribbean and Latin themes a style reflected in pieces such as Trocha and later in his well-known ragtime composition Panama 1911 which remained a staple of early jazz and dance orchestras. OCLC finds two copies with different entries at the Cleveland Public Library and the British Museum Reference Collections. 1 “William Tyers Music Arranger” African American Registry https://aaregistry.org/story/william-tyers-born/ accessed March 10 2026. Jos. W. Stern & Co unknown books
1995Best.-Nr. 6176ABLahaina, Hawaii, Ross-Hargreaves, [1995]. 21 cm. 64 S. Mit zahlr. Farbabb. Illustrierte Originalbroschur (Softcover). Neuwertiges Exemplar.
1931Best.-Nr. 18263Tropical Plant Research Foundation/Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust. Near Fine. Hardcover. Faint foxing to top edge; Limited Edition # 811 of 1000 copies; 8vo; 318 pages . 1931. Tropical Plant Research Foundation/Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust hardcover
1931Faint foxing to top edge; Limited Edition # 811 of 1,000 copies; 8vo; 318 pages
1931Quarto in dark green cloth; xix, 317 pages, 82 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm; bibliographical references (pages 307-309) "This edition is limited to one thousand numbered copies of which this is no. [118]" / Forests and forestry -- Caribbean Sea. Forests and forestry -- Tropics. Forests and forestry -- Caribbean Area. ForÍts -- CaraÔbes (RÈgion) ForÍts -- RÈgions tropicales. Forests and forestry. Regenwouden. Caribbean Sea. Tropics. Autecologie; autecology; caribisch gebied; caribbean; bosbouw; forestry; plantenecologie; plant ecology; opstandsontwikkeling; stand development; opstandsstructuur; stand structure; subtropen; subtropics; bomen; trees; tropische regenbossen; tropical rain forests; tropen; tropics; vegetatie; vegetation; Ecology of Tropical Forests; Ecologie van tropische bossen
1928Best.-Nr. 219181928. Puerto Rico photo archive circa 1910s and 1928 documents colonial-era social conditions and hurricane destruction in the decades after the United States took control of the island. The archive centers on two related subjects: a large group portrait of Puerto Rican adults and children gathered outside a long arched building and press images of San Juan after the September 13 1928 San Felipe Segundo hurricane. The photographs provide visual evidence of everyday poverty built environment disaster damage and public movement through wreckage during a period shaped by U.S. civil government under the Foraker Act of 1900 and U.S. citizenship without voting representation in Congress under the Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917. Puerto Rico photo archive. Puerto Rico circa late 1910s and 1928. Three silver gelatin photographs with two images printed on one press sheet. Sizes range from 5 x 9 inches to 8.5 x 11 inches. The 1928 press photograph contains two stacked photojournalistic views of San Juan after the hurricane showing torn corrugated roofing broken utility poles damaged structures debris-filled streets and residents including children and laborers moving through the wreckage. The larger earlier image shows a white man standing before a long arched tenement-style or institutional building surrounded by Puerto Rican women men and numerous children many barefoot and wearing worn or minimal clothing; the image appears posed or observational but the man's role is not identified. The San Felipe Segundo hurricane struck Puerto Rico on September 13 1928 as a Category 5 storm and caused 312 reported deaths widespread housing destruction and several hundred thousand people left homeless giving the press images strong value as disaster documentation within a colonial setting. The earlier group photograph broadens the archive beyond catastrophe recording visible poverty dress housing and racialized colonial social relations without requiring unsupported identification of the white figure. Some edge wear tape on margins of smaller image and original editor's markings en verso to press photograph; very good. A compact Puerto Rico photo archive linking colonial-era social conditions with one of the island's most destructive twentieth-century hurricanes. unknown
