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1945ref. 9277New York New York and Havana Cuba 1945. William John Mantz Jr. worked as an engineer and assistant manager for the West Indies Sugar Corporation for 10 years traveling back and forth frequently between his home in Tarrytown New York and the sugar plantations in Havana Cuba. This archive contains travel materials government documents and other personal artifacts pertaining to his time in Cuba and concerning his status with the draft during World War II. Most correspondence in original postmarked envelope. Included: - One black and white photograph of Bill and Marjorie Mantz - Birth certificate copy with raised seal for Bill Mantz dated January 1938 - Two personal letters from Marjorie to Bill in 1938 that mention her recent travels to visit him in Cuba - Cuban drivers license for Bill dated January 1940 with photo attached and stamped by the police department - Cuban Foreign Identification Card for Marjorie dated June 1940 with receipt and three copies of her photo attached - Receipt for surrendered passport in Miami Florida December 1940 - Letter from Bill's sister Margie in May 1942 forwarding paperwork from Selective Services - Two Cuban tax withholding documents from May/July 1942 - Letter from Bill in Spanish requesting the renewal of Marjorie's Foreigner's Identification card in May 1943 and follow up letter to a different recipient in English dated June 1943 regarding missing documents - Three permits from Selective Services for to depart from the United States 1943-1945 plus one duplicate - Four pieces of correspondence from the American Consulate in Cuba dated December 1944 - April 1945 regarding passports medical exams and registering the Mantz’s infant daughter - Sixteen letters and other correspondence between Bill his boss Arthur Kirstein and Selective Services mostly regarding Bill’s draft status but also some sugar industry business such as frequent air travel to Havana trains and fuel options and US politics after Truman assumed the presidency. . unknown
1994ref. 170268Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1994. Revised Draft script for the 1995 film. Bound in at the rear of the script are nine pages relating to revisions to the script. US Army doctors race to find the cure to a deadly virus quickly spreading from Africa to North America by way of a smuggled capuchin monkey. Shot on location in California and Hawaii. Self wrappers. Title page present dated May 13 1994 noted as REVISION POLISH with credits for screenwriters Laurence Dworet and Robert Roy Pool and revision credits for uncredited screenwriter Ted Tally. 174 leaves with last page of text numbered 136. Xerographic duplication rectos only with rainbow revision pages throughout dated variously between August 7 and 17 1994. Pages Near Fine bound with two gold brads. Warner Brothers unknown
1830ref. 8598Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. No further volumes were published. Spanish text. Full mottled calf with red morroco label to spine and gilt particulars. Marbled endpapers. Loss to foot of spine see image and to corners. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Very scarce. 6 x 8.25 in Imprenta de las Viudas de Arazoza y Soler hardcover
1935ref. 848Key West 1935. Very good. Broadside 18 x 8 inches. Printed on pink paper slightly faded. Old folds minor wear. Broadside advertising a steamship cruise offered by Price Tours from Key West to Havana during Carnival with additional sightseeing itineraries available once on the island. The cruise is a five-day all expenses included trip for the reasonable price of $38.50 with four nights in Havana and the option to add a driving tour across the island seeing Cuba from coast to coast. Other potential tours include a cigar factory a rum distillery Morro Castle a shopping tour and more. No copies recorded in OCLC. unknown books
1895ref. 87496Havana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First. hardcover. near fine. Folding table. 414pp. 1/2 modern lavender buckram marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Habana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. Laws regulating the telephone and telegraph industries. Castro, Fernandez unknown books
1906ref. ZB705570Habana: 1906-1931 passim. Tomo I 1906 Tomo III 1906 a 1908 Tomo IV 1909 a 1911 Tomo VIII 1917 a 1919 Tomo 10 1921 a 1923 Tomo XII 1925-1927 Tomo XIII Vol. I 1927 a 1929 Tomo XIII Vol. 2 1929 a 1931 only; first editions; small usually thick quartos; ex library original cloth bindings smudged and worn with one side and a few text leaves detached most hinges cracked or broken text age toned but not fragile reading copies only. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Habana: hardcover
1895ref. 87496Havana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First. hardcover. near fine. Folding table. 414pp. 1/2 modern lavender buckram marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Habana: Castro Fernandez 1895. First Edition. Near Fine. Laws regulating the telephone and telegraph industries. Castro, Fernandez unknown
1860ref. 12907Paris Librairie Hachette [Imp. de Ch. Lahure et Cie] 1860 in-12 br., couv. jaune impr., non rogné, couv. lég. us. avec petits manques, qq. pâles rouss
1854ref. AMA-124Librairie de l’Association pour la propagation et la Publication des Bons livres, s.d. [1854-1855]. 3 volumes in 12, demi-chagrin noir, dos à nerfs orné de petits fleurons et de filets dorés, têtes dorées. (2)ff.-VIII-408 pp., (2)ff.-444 pp., (2)ff.-433 pp.
1972ref. 32549Moscow 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 348 3pp; portraits plates. Slight external rubbing and shelfwear; corners nudged; still a solid Very Good copy. Apparently the first full-length Soviet biography of the Argentinian revolutionary martyr and hero of the Cuban Revolution well-illustrated with photographic portraits and plates. According to Costa Rican investigative journalist Marjorie Ross "Lavretsky" was a pseudonym for Soviet master-spy Iosif Grigulevich who got his start as a hired hit-man against Trotskyist and Anarchist factions in the Spanish Civil War. She pegs him as the never-identied "third man" in the assassination of Leon Trotsky; and during the Cold War posing as an international coffee expert Grigulevich reputedly penetrated the highest levels of government and culture in Costa Rica Chile and Mexico during which time he was also the Kremlin's "handler" for Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Mexican painter José Siqueiros see Marjorie Ross El secreto encanto de la KGB/ The Secret Charm of the KGB: Las cinco vidas de Iosif Grigulievich/ The Five Lives of Iosif Grigulevich. San José: 2006. Apparently an uncommon work at least in Western institutions; OCLC locates just one copy British Library; KVK and European Library Meta Catalog find three more Nat. Lib. Lithuania; BNF; Staatsbibliothek Berlin. unknown books
1916ref. 1505Havana 1916. Good plus. Eight parts in two volumes. Original half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Calf scuffed at spine ends; light wear to corners and edges; boards rubbed. Rear board with a dime-sized chip at lower fore-edge. Slightly later pencil ownership inscriptions to initial title pages of each volume. Small chip at fore-edge of first title page. Light tanning. The first eight issues of this scarce Cuban literary periodical which published twice monthly during 1916. The editor of the series Nestor Carbonell y Rivera grew up in the United States before returning to Cuba and obtaining his doctorate from the University of Havana; he was active in several prominent intellectual and literary society of Cuba and later served as ambassador to Argentina and Peru. Each issue of the periodical comprises one previously unpublished work by Cuban author including José Martí Manuel Sanguily and Máximo Gómez. We locate runs of the series at seven institutions as well as scattered holdings of individual issues. This set clearly bound by a contemporary Cuban subscriber one F. Gamboa. unknown books
ref. 2092Sans mention d'éditeur. 1969. Impression offset.Dim : 52,5 x 32,5 cm
ref. 2092Sans mention d'éditeur. 1969. Impression offset.Dim : 52,5 x 32,5 cm
ref. 2090Edit. OSPAAAL. 1968. Impression offset. Dim : 53 x 33 cm.
ref. 2090Edit. OSPAAAL. 1968. Impression offset. Dim : 53 x 33 cm.
1963ref. boz_003353Fidel Castro Lot de 13 Photos d'époque officielles - VIIème Congrès de l'Union Internationale des Architectes à La Havane, 1963, avec comme problématique "L'architecture dans les pays en voie de développement", Tampon du "Ministère des relations extérieures" et du Ministère de la construction Dimensions : Grandes photos : 20,2 x 25,5 cm Petites photos : 12,4 x 19,8 cm État : bon état, certaines ont des traces de frottements.
1844ref. PHO-1491Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1844, in-8, 2 volumes, LXXI-771-[2] pp. en numérotation continue, 20 diagrammes hors texte, demi-chagrin rouge, dos à faux nerfs, monogramme "J.M.C." doré en pied des dos, Rousseurs, quelques auréoles, l'une assez large en tête du second tome.
1857ref. 030167Cuba 1857. The Carbonells were of great political scientific diplomatic and business prominence in Cuba before the 20th century Revolution as evidenced here by the various degrees awards and membership documents including that signed by the President of the Republic. Most members subsequently emigrated to the U.S. after their properties were confiscated under the Castro regime. Of particular interest is the career of José María Zarragoitia y Carbonell a Havana-born engineer who graduated from Norwich University Vermont in 1906 and went on to a long career in engineering in his home country "…having helped to construct the important Air Base of San Julian Pinar del Rio Cuba working steadily there up to the time of its completion. His last work was in the Pontezuela Dam for the aqueduct of the City of Canaguey…When the United States declared war on Japan he went to the U S. Embassy here in Havana to offer his services if not for active duty due to his age at least as an engineer…" Rosa and Mercedes Carbonell writing notice of their brother's death for the Norwich University Record publication In roughly chronological order the collection includes: Photographs: 1865 - 1887 5 photos; 1887 Mercedita & criandera Maria Tejera ; Grandfather 1875; and again in 1878 graduating with his law degree Habana; 1865 carte-de-visite of Dr. Manuel Carbonell y Ruiz "hermano de Abuelo"; a group photo of grandparents & Rosa Rita & Mercedita. Affixed to the same sheet is the thermoplastic business card of Establecimiento Fotografico de G. Fernandez Carrido Habana. 1868 - 1898 Group of 6 photos family portraiture of Meredith & Rosa Rita Carbonell brothers as children; the brothers at Guanabacoa school and a 1868 carte-de-visite of grandfather after his graduation. A faded photo of Guanabacoa 1897-1898 shows the brothers and their dogs staff and Black servants. 1899 - 1908 Carbonell brothers Ramon Raul & Jose New York; a photo of Rosa Rita & Mercedita and grandparents "En los Catskills 1908"; and three tintypes in their holders of Ramon & Jose as children and one-year old Mercedita and her un-named Black criandera nanny. C. 1904 - 1908 Series of three portrait photographs identified as Jose Carbonell y Zarragoitia while a student at Norwich University; two of these in cadet uniform. Approx. 3 ½" x 5 ½"; laid-down to paper backer. Awards Certificates Degrees Appointments: 1857 Universidad de la Habana baccalaureate degree in Philosophy for Carbonell y Ruiz signed and sealed; Latin text. Approx. 12 ½" x 18" overall size; old discoloration at lower left corner; in good condition. 1857 Another as above awarding the baccalaureate in Philosophy of Science. 1861 Universidad de la Habana baccalaureate degree in jurisprudence for Carbonell y Ruiz signed and sealed; Latin text. Approx. 11 ½" x 17" overall size; old discoloration at lower right corner; in fair to good condition. 1861 Membership certificate for the Real Sociedad Economica de la Habana signed by this learned society's governing board and welcoming Ramon Carbonell y Ruiz as a member. Approx. 12 1/2" x 17 1/4"; affixed to black paper backer; old discoloration at left side; in fair to good condition. 1866 Leceo Artistico y Leterario del Havana graduation diploma for Jose maria Carbonell y Ruiz signed by school dignitaries. Approx. 12 ½" x 16 ¼"; affixed to black paper backer; corners chipped and worn away old discoloration in bottom corner; in fair to good condition. 1867 Certificate Utile Dulci Recreo de Pueblo-Nuevo Matanzas certifying Carbonell y Ruiz as Socio Facultativo and signed. Approx. 12 ½" x 18"; affixed to black paper backer; couple of corners chipped and worn away old discolorations and trimmed close at bottom and top; in fair to good condition. 1871 Another Real Sociedad Economica de la Habana certificate noting membership in good standing and signed by this learned society's leadership board. Approx. 9" x 11 1/2"; affixed to black paper backer; in very good condition. 1875 Universidad de la Habana awarding Asignatura de Economia Politica y Estadristica honors course for Carbonell y Ruiz signed and sealed. Approx. 10" x 15 1/2" overall size; old discoloration at lower left corner and poor paper repair also at left obscuring some letters; top corner chipped; in fair to good condition. 1892 Certificate El Circulo de Abogados de la Habana signed and sealed. Approx. 8" x 13"; affixed to black paper backer; edges crudely trimmed; in good condition. 1894 Certificate of academic excellence from Escuelas Pias de Guanabacoa for Jose Carbonell y Zarrogoitia signed. Approx. 8" x 12"; affixed to black paper backer. In very good condition. 1894 Certificate of academic excellence as above from Escuelas Pias de Guanabacoa for Ramon Carbonell y Zarrogoitia signed. Approx. 8" x 12"; affixed to black paper backer. In very good condition. 1910 Certificate of citizenship for Ramon Ysidro Restituto Margarita Carbonell y Ruiz the Republica de Cuba signed by Jose Francisco Remirez de Estenoz Secretary of the Republic and with official blind-stamp seal. Approx. 11 ¼" x 12 ¾"; affixed to black paper backer; in very good condition. 1914 Certificate signed and with his blind-stamp seal by Mario G. Menocal 1866 - 1941 3rd Presidente of the Republica bestowing the "Titulo de Notario" for Carbonel y Ruiz resident of Mayare. Two-sided with additional attestations and signatures on the reverse. Approx. 12 1/2" x 17 ¾"; old paper tape at left margin; document paper darkened with some bleed-through of reverse writing and with old spotting and discoloration; in fair to good condition. Miscellaneous: 1918 Certificate Asociacion General Del Rosario Perpetuo membership for Rosa Carbonell. Approx. 8" x 9 ¾"; printed with colors and affixed to black paper backer trimmed oddly along left edge; along with 6 color-printed religious cards; one is dated 1908 in pen; two small pasted-in note-slips noting the Primera Comunion de Gerardo Montejo y Carbonell la Vibora Habana in 1917 and another for the First Holy Communion of Amelia Desvernine at the Church of the Sacred Heart New York in 1909. In very good condition. Undated Typed poetry broadside with manuscript title "Un Hombre Agradecido" - Estimado Carbonel:/Por juzgarlo procedente/cojo maquina y papel/y le escribio lo siguiente:…" Unsigned and undated. Approx. 4 ¼" x 10 ½" size; pasted down to backer; faint old fold line; in very good condition. 1886 - 1895 A group of mostly French & European-printed Christian religious inspirational cards; one card with elaborate layers of decoration. With various notes for Mercedes Carbonell y Zarragoitia; Rosa Rita Carbonell y Zarragoitia and Maria Ana a Rosa Rita & Maria Fejera. Another sheet Of 15 religious cards various sizes and styles. Another sheet Of 9 religious cards. Evidence of the loss of one card removed. Condition as noted; good overall. . Collection. Good.
1961ref. 5832Guanabara 1961. About very good. 111pp. Small folio. Original pictorial self-wrappers stapled. Contemporary and slightly later ink stamps to front wrap. Light edge wear. Some tanning and dust soiling. First issue of this evidently unrecorded periodical published by the "Comissão Brasileira de Solidariedade ao Pavo Cubano" in May 1961. The publication contains numerous positive stories on the progress of the Cuban Revolution and support of the cause from the Brazilian people. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings including the beginning of a serial comic on the history of the revolution at the rear. The front wrap depicts Fidel Castro with his foot on the chest of a supine eagle and a rifle raised triumphantly over his head. Interesting support for the Communist cause in Cuba from South America. Not in OCLC. unknown
1959ref. 5470Habana: June 3 1959. Good plus. 11pp. Small folio. Previously folded; stapled along gutter margin. Some edge and corner wear; closed tear to initial leaf from fore-edge along old fold. Toned cheap newsprint. A special edition of the Gaceta Oficial of Communist Cuba devoted to the printing of the First Agrarian Reform Law passed and signed on May 17 1959. The law effected the first major land redistribution under Fidel Castro and the Communist Party. Under its authority all properties were over 420 hectares were confiscated and redistributed to the people and native businesses. Prior to the law over 80% of Cuban land was owned by foreign mostly American companies. The preamble and sixty-seven articles lay out the motivations for the law the parameters for confiscation by the Department of Agriculture the mechanisms for seizure and redistribution and the creation of a new government organization to facilitate the land transfers the Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria. Signed in print by Fidel as Prime Minister Manuel Urrutia Lleo as President and a slew of other officials. June 3 unknown
1923ref. 5672Havana 1923. Fair. 14pp. Original wrappers rear cover lacking. Contemporary ink notation to front cover reinforced at spine with later paper tanned. Text guillotined; leaves silked some chipping and wear at edges. A rare work arguing against railroad consolidation in Cuba and a victim of the New York Public Library's microfilming project. The subtitle reads "Exposicion que dirige al Congreso la Asociacion de Hacendados y Colonos." We locate only the microfilm copy at NYPL in OCLC no physical copies. unknown
1899ref. 5378Puerto-Principe Cuba: Imp. el Progreso-Soledad January 11 1899. Good. Broadside 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Old folds minor chip at top left corner uniformly tanned and somewhat tender. An unrecorded general order issued in Spanish by the American "Jefe de Estado Mayor" Chief of Staff John E. McMahon during the military occupation of Cuba in the Spanish-American War. The order stipulates that a paragraph in a previous order prohibiting the auction of mortgaged property in the province of Puerto-Principe until January 1 1900 is hereby repealed and any further instructions on this matter will come from the Army's General Headquarters in Havana. McMahon issued several general orders during the American Army's occupation of Cuba and all appear to be rare. An interesting artifact from America's expansionist period with no other copies in OCLC auction history or the trade. Imp. el Progreso-Soledad, January 11 unknown
1872ref. 3066Havana 1872. Very good. Manuscript form approximately 8.5 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear at edges; a few small worm holes. Contemporary ink stamp. Light tanning and offsetting. This 1872 manuscript form from a Havana jail the Celaduria de la Punta notes the death there of an "Asiatico" a Chinese indentured servant with the given name of Juan Macao and orders the transfer of the body to the mortuary for cremation. Indentured servants found themselves jailed for several reasons including suspicion of theft and other crimes recapture following runaway or mere suspicion of abandoning a contract. unknown
1983ref. 83069Havana: S.i. 1983. Original illustrated poster with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in four colors on white stock measuring 51cm x 76.25cm 20 1/8" x 30". Mild handling to extremities ele a bright Fine copy unbacked. Striking poster designed by Concepción Robinson Mendoza aka. "Coni" for Victor Cassaus's 1983 documentary Que Levante la Mano la Guitarra centered around Cuban musician and folk singer Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez. 83069. S.i. unknown
1860ref. 234291860. Spanish colonial administration in Havana used port health regulation as a mechanism of commercial and maritime control with the Captaincy General directing military customs and sanitary officials through centralized orders. This December 6 1860 manuscript concerns the "Junta local de Sanidad" "víveres averiados" and Dr. Rafael Cortés placing damaged provisions public health authority and port enforcement within the same bureaucratic chain. The phrase "usando de las facultades que me competen" invokes the vested powers of the colonial government confirming that the matter was handled through Spanish imperial authority rather than local civic discretion. Gobierno y Capitanía General de la Isla de Cuba. Secretaría de Gobierno sección de Gobierno. Manuscript order. Havana Cuba: December 6 1860. Single folded manuscript document with printed colonial seal and heading docketed "Habana y Dic. 6 de 1860" and addressed to maritime or port authorities. The text instructs compliance with a petition or order involving the local Board of Health damaged provisions or foodstuffs and Dr. Rafael Cortés with official endorsements and large administrative signatures below. The verso bears docketing and filing marks consistent with bureaucratic circulation. The document belongs directly to Spanish colonial governance in Cuba where the Governor and Captain General exercised civil military and administrative power over the island until the end of Spanish rule in 1898. Its contents connect colonial rule to the management of ports food safety and public health all crucial areas in Havana's nineteenth-century Atlantic economy. Folded as issued with toning scattered foxing edge wear and original folds; seal heading date and principal manuscript text remain legible. Overall good condition. unknown
