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1959Best.-Nr. 015403Havana: Manzarbeitia y Compania 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Red velvet covered vintage Cuban cocktail catalog in very good condition. Covers show some shelf wear. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If buying internationally please be aware that additional charges may apply for heavier books. We guarantee a safe quick and secure transaction. 10 years in online bookselling experience. Manzarbeitia y Compania hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. RF 56517 original photos from La Habana. 8vo. 17 photographs from Havana. Photographs are 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. Each photograph bears an ink handwritten description across the top: Prado & Morro Castle; Havana Skyline; Prado & Capitol; Residential Palace; El Morro no inscription; Race Track Havana; Prado from the Capitol; Prado from the Capitol another view Maine Monument; Capitol Grounds; Tropical Beer Garden; Main Monument & National Hotel Havana; Race Track another view; National Theatre and Capitol. Set of photographs of Havana from the 1920s 1930s. The inscriptions on each photograph are in English. Unidentified photographer. Interesting Cuban photographici conography. O02G000074 RF 565 X99X001603
1980Best.-Nr. 44366Editorial Letras Cubanas. VG/G. 1980. Hardcover. Two-volume hardback set with covers in different colors. Contents clean tight with little evidence of handling. DJs very worn with tears uneven fading edgewear. Not library discards. ; . Editorial Letras Cubanas, hardcover
1997Best.-Nr. 2090502113717919Not Available 1997. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
Best.-Nr. CON-FOL-Cuba dos-06-29-20Very Good. Light aged tanning to edges of pages as well as minor cover and edge wear. Inside clean text pages good with no markings or writing. Nice copy. Satisfaction guaranteed. unknown
Best.-Nr. a106668Habana. 1926 first editio. Republica de Cuba Secretaria de Obras Publicas. Two royal octavo wraps volumes. paginated 249-326 and327-397. Both issues have maps and some photo illustrations of Cuba in 1926. Both issues have an article on the damage caused by a recent cyclone. Backstrips reinforced. Good light cover wear; text clean. Two issues: . paperback
1977Best.-Nr. 24689Cuba: Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC 1977. Poster in colors text in Spanish. Also printed at bottom edge: C.P. "Evelio Rodriguez Curbelo"/Taller experimental. Approx. 20" x 30" size; in very good condition. Poster. Not Bound. Very Good. Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba UNEAC Paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 310130Self. Very Good. 1920. 30 pp; Undated and unpaginated no publisher. This is a tourism booklet in red paper wraps and is h30 pages of photographs of Havana Cuba of the period including the Boneyard Morro Caste and lighthouse Obisbo Street the "Patio" etc. It has been dated to approximately 1920 from the photos containing early automobiles. No page markings wraps with nice color but slightly rubbed with no creasing. A nice clean tight and attractive book. . Self paperback
1900Best.-Nr. 25439Havana Cuba: Not Published 1900. Both letters two pages on Samuel Wyman Smith Importer Havana Cuba letterhead paper; dated Jan. 4 1900 and Dec. 5 1900. Both addressed to "My Dear Gilbert"; the contents typed and concerning the fate of their mutual investment in "The Studio" restaurant & bar in Havana. ".all the papers that I can find at the Studio have been forwarded to you at Cambridge Springs. The reason for this delay has been that I have been quite ill having had a toe amputated.You will see the Studio is improving. I have just made an arrangement with two Chinamen as cooks Spanish waiters however.this should finally put the place on a paying basis." adding handwritten ".I trust you will soon send me a good sized check as I need money desperately." The letter of December relates Smith's attempts to find buyers and leasors for the restaurant ".I am bothered to death by the bills of the place existing before you left some of which I have personally guaranteed.have also had a proposition from a Spaniard to take the restaurant.As a restaurant is always a dead loser except under very competent management this seems to me to be most advantageous.The quarantine has been taken off the camps here and business is much better."; continuing to ask for money. With the original mailing envelopes addressed to Mr. W.E. Gilbert. This venture was perhaps an attempt to meet the needs of the very large population of North Americans residing in Cuba after the Spanish-American War; many businesses opened especially in Havana including hotels bars and restaurants. In his book "On Becoming Cuban: Identity Nationality and Culture" By Louis A. Perez 2008 Univ. of North Carolina Press an individual named Edward E. Nelson opened the Studio restaurant in Havana in 1899 and was not very successful per the contents of these letters. Envelopes very soiled and worn; letters with light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. Interesting Cuban - U.S. business history ephemera from the early days of the 20th century telling of the unsettled commercial climate. . Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback
2003Best.-Nr. 2565191029073Donning Co Pub 2003-05-01. Hardcover. Like New. Nice looking book has minor edge wear. Donning Co Pub hardcover
1901Best.-Nr. 2221928First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with b/w photos by V.K. Van De Venter Robin H. Ford John H. Rising L.E. Mayo and W.G. Spiker. Original grey pictorial cloth stamped in gilt black and green. No dust jacket. Very good small crack at rear joint. 220 pages 3 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Scarce. The Rumford Press hardcover
1856Best.-Nr. 0006868New York: D. Appleton 1856. First edition. Hardcover. fine. 12mo xii 412 pages original light brown embossed cloth. These observations are related in a series of 61 letters. These were originally composed in Spanish then translated into English by Joseito. "I have thereby been enabled to impart entirely new data and reliable information instead of merely copying from books already known. . I applied myself to natives who besides an intimate knowledge of affairs in general possessed a sound judgment and an investigating disposition. It has beeen indeed a very happy incident to have found them. . That part of my work which treats on judicial matters and the secrets of the management of the tribunals will especially attract the attention of my readers. - Introductory Letter." Sabin 17816; Treiles BIBLIO. CUBANA vo. 4 p.17. D. Appleton hardcover
Best.-Nr. a58469A wonderful and poignant collection of 8 letters written by a Spanish emigrant in Cuba 1905-06. The letters total 39 sides on 12 sheets of paper all handwritten in ink in Spanish and addressed to Sra. Mercedes Chueca Alonso in Barcelona. All are signed Pepe who also identifies himself as Jose Vila Maria and as Jose Vicente. The letters include a fairly detailed account of his voyage to Cuba via Barcelona Paris Marseille; a comparison of Havana to Barcelona; advice to a prospective emigrant Mercedes's brother; and some account of his attempts to seek his fortune apparently in the miitary. In passing he mentions something of the events of the time - the August 1906 uprising and subsequent American military intervention:.El haberme hecho ciudadano Cubano fue con objecto de ingresor en la academia del cuerpo de artilleria mas me imponian condiciones que no pude aceptar pues tenia que entrar de soldado y firmar un contrato por cuartro anos y el examen para oficial era libre pues aqui el servicio es voluntario mas illegible quiero que aqui solo illegible la influencias y son muchos los libertadores que de la ultima guerra existen resultan que por muy benos examanes que se hagan podran illegible a extranjero a illegible la plaza inguesaron cuando la intervencion americana fueron relevados en sus cargoes. April 1 1906 .Hace unos dia me intregaron dos targeta y una carta tuya; en esta ultima me manifiestas estraneza por no tenor noticia mas.a circumstancias por que ha estado atravesando la Habana; pues en momentos en que ya tenia el nombramiento.a ingresor en el cuerpo del ejercito contro lo que era de esperar intervinieron los americanos por lo que me virprecisado a marcher a Port Tampa Estados Unidos en donde he permanecido hasto unos dias antes de pasar por aqui.los muchos destrozos que en esta capital. November 20 1906 Also included is a letter from Pedro Marden of Barcelona postmarked 1907 informing Sra Chueca of the death of Vicente presumably the Pepe of the other letters in Cuba of unknown causes. Together with 9 stamp-bearing envelopes. . unknown
Best.-Nr. a79516La Habana 1984 Instituto Cubano de Geodesia y Cartografia. In Spanish. Oblong 4to. 144pp. many maps cloth. VG plus in Good DJ a bit worn. . hardcover
Best.-Nr. a718971951 Freeport Sulphur Company of New York City. All original mimeos of typed documents. 4to. 289 leaves rectos only 4 large foldout maps gilt titled limp black boards with 3 metal studs for binding. VG. Scarce. . hardcover
Best.-Nr. a17322Islas vol IX #4. Thick octavo wraps. 555pp. index. Issue for Oct.-Dec. 1967 . Entire issue devoted to revolutionary Cuban poetry. Text VG cover good plus lightly foxed and toned with one small closed tear; lightly worn. No ownership marks. Rare. . paperback
Best.-Nr. a68199La Habana 1946. Publicaciones del Archivo Nacional de Cuba. In Spanish. 4to. 270pp. some portraits original printed wraps. Some institutions stamps. VG a bit browned. Volume 5. . paperback
Best.-Nr. a26059NY 1968. Revista Cubana Ano I Num. 1 Enero-Junio 1968. 8vo. 270pp. wraps. Near Fine. Articles include: Humerto Pinera El Fundamento Teorico de la Guerra de los Diez Anos; Francisco J Ponte Dominguez El Acta de Independencia de Cuba; Juan J Remos La influencia del Colegio del Salvador en la generacion de 1868; Otto Olivera La poesia de la Guerra do los Diez Anos etc. paperback
Best.-Nr. a25985Havana 1945. 12mo. 852pp. limp boards. Owner signed in front and rear. VG. hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. 18Montréal 2008, 1 24,5 x 28,5 cm Cartonnage éditeur. 424.
1979Best.-Nr. 5642Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail 1979 346 pages in8. 1979. broché. 346 pages. Actes du colloque international tenu en novembre 1978 à Toulouse dédié à la mémoire de Juan Marinello et Noël Salomon explorant les étapes de la libération de Cuba
Best.-Nr. 5776Akoulyo editions 159 pages IN4. Sans date. broché. 159 pages. Ce livre est un ouvrage illustré sur Cuba publié en 1993 par les éditions Akoulyo. Il s'agit d'un documentaire de voyage contenant de nombreuses photographies et illustrations présentant le pays sous un angle pratique et culturel
1997Best.-Nr. 6016CORTI 1997 406 pages 13 4x3x17 6cm. 1997. broché. 406 pages. Un roman qui explore le rêve et l'identité de Cuba à travers le regard d'un exilé cubain installé en Suède. L'écriture mêle avec virtuosité différents genres et tons pour créer une réflexion complexe sur la patrie que l'on soit à l'intérieur ou à l'extérieur de l'île
