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Best.-Nr. 1326La Habana. Novembre-décembre 1965. Grand in-8° carré broché. 171 pages.
Best.-Nr. 1327La Habana. Janvier-février 1967. Grand in-8° carré broché. 155 pages.
Best.-Nr. 9346DEMOCRATIE NOUVELLE, décembre 1967. In-8, broché.
1945Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 88452Havana: Casa de las Americas 1974. First Edition. First Impression one of 18000 copies. Narrow octavo 22.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 67-4293pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillen on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez: "Para Roberto Márquez / con el fraternal cariño de Nicolas / La Habana Feb. 74." Signed directly beneath by an unknown figure and below that by Afro-Cuban poet and journalist Marcelino Arozarena 1912-1996. The opposing page is inscribed for Márquez in verse with a small drawing by an undetermined poet signed "David Feb.74." The verso of the half-title page is warmly inscribed by Cuban poet and critic Nancy Morejón who has written the foreword to this volume: "Para mi queridísimo Roberto Marquez / la admiracion y el cariño immenso de Nancy / La Habana / 19 de feb. de 1974." Directly beneath this is another warm year of publication inscription by an underemined individual. This volume has been extensively marked-up by Márquez whose contribution "Introducción a Guillén" appears on pp.127-138. Some wear to extremities a few nicks and tears to spine ends with some creases to wrappers; Very Good. A key volume of critical texts on Guillén 1902-1989 the national poet of Cuba by many of his contemporaries like Mirta Aguirre Angel Augier Roberto Fernández Retamar Nancy Morejón Alejo Carpentier Pablo Neruda Ciro Alegría and others. This copy bears a number of contemporary inscriptions to Márquez a Guillén scholar who has written extensively on his work and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. 88452. Casa de las Americas unknown books
1974Best.-Nr. 88452Havana: Casa de las Americas 1974. First Edition. First Impression one of 18000 copies. Narrow octavo 22.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 67-4293pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Inscribed by Guillen on the title page to Puerto Rican editor translator and literary critic Roberto Márquez: "Para Roberto Márquez / con el fraternal cariño de Nicolas / La Habana Feb. 74." Signed directly beneath by an unknown figure and below that by Afro-Cuban poet and journalist Marcelino Arozarena 1912-1996. The opposing page is inscribed for Márquez in verse with a small drawing by an undetermined poet signed "David Feb.74." The verso of the half-title page is warmly inscribed by Cuban poet and critic Nancy Morejón who has written the foreword to this volume: "Para mi queridísimo Roberto Marquez / la admiracion y el cariño immenso de Nancy / La Habana / 19 de feb. de 1974." Directly beneath this is another warm year of publication inscription by an underemined individual. This volume has been extensively marked-up by Márquez whose contribution "Introducción a Guillén" appears on pp.127-138. Some wear to extremities a few nicks and tears to spine ends with some creases to wrappers; Very Good. A key volume of critical texts on Guillén 1902-1989 the national poet of Cuba by many of his contemporaries like Mirta Aguirre Angel Augier Roberto Fernández Retamar Nancy Morejón Alejo Carpentier Pablo Neruda Ciro Alegría and others. This copy bears a number of contemporary inscriptions to Márquez a Guillén scholar who has written extensively on his work and has translated several of the poet's works faithfully from Spanish into English. 88452. Casa de las Americas unknown
1949Best.-Nr. LFA-126711332N° 18 - 1er mai 1949 - Hebdomadaire de 8 pages, format 260 x 320 mm, illustré de bandes dessinées en couleurs et en noir, bon état
1949Best.-Nr. LFA-126711333N° 20 - 15 mai 1949 - Hebdomadaire de 8 pages, format 260 x 320 mm, illustré de bandes dessinées en couleurs et en noir, bon état
1949Best.-Nr. LFA-126711334N° 21 - 22 mai 1949 - Hebdomadaire de 8 pages, format 260 x 320 mm, illustré de bandes dessinées en couleurs et en noir, bon état
1949Best.-Nr. LFA-126711335N° 22 - 29 mai 1949 - Hebdomadaire de 8 pages, format 260 x 320 mm, illustré de bandes dessinées en couleurs et en noir, bon état
1949Best.-Nr. LFA-126711336N° 23 - 5 juin 1949 - Hebdomadaire de 8 pages, format 260 x 320 mm, illustré de bandes dessinées en couleurs et en noir, bon état
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
1902Best.-Nr. 28399New York: Harper's 1902. First printing. Hardcover. Good overall. Content on the Russo-Japanese & Spanish American War; Automobiling early cars playing polo!; Teddy Roosevelt Chinese rugby cartoon Blackwell Island Bridge Thomas Nast cartoon Henley regatta. Half year bound volume of Harper's Weekly with woodblock illustrations throughout. Color supplements were included in the Christmas issue. Chinese playing rugby cartoon p1582; US Naval Academy p1498; Blackwell Island Bridge p1308; Wall Street p1180; Thomas Nast p1972. Folio 1155pp. Weekly issues bound up into a large single volume with 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Leather spine chipped cracked at hinge binding firm internally very clean. Harper's hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1106Impression offset. Affiche OSPAAL. ca.1975. Dim: 69 x 38 cm. Bon état.
Best.-Nr. 1106Impression offset. Affiche OSPAAL. ca.1975. Dim: 69 x 38 cm. Bon état.
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
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
1961Best.-Nr. 2137Various places in Florida Mexico Cuba & Spain 1961. About very good. 138 original prints each 8 x 10 inches; mostly large format images with twelve contact sheet containing multiple smaller images and including several duplicates. Light wear at edges; slight curling. Occasional patches of scuffing or soiling. Scattered manuscript annotations and ink stamps on blank versos of photographs. An interesting aggregation of approximately 150 unique professional images that depict the travels and activities of the Latin American Fiesta Association of Tampa Florida. The cultural heritage group was founded in 1940 and flourished from the late 1940s to the 1980s and organized or participated in local social events had an annual ball and traveled widely across Latin America. The photographs here date from 1949 to the early 1960s and document the travels of association members to Spain Mexico and Cuba. They attended numerous events entertainments dinners and other social gatherings as well as made visits to attractions and local cultural clubs. In Spain and Cuba their trips seem to have been limited to Madrid and Havana respectively and there are some interesting series of travel images in Cuba from just prior to the Revolution. The group seems to have made multiple trips to Mexico and traveled somewhat more widely. Scattered images show the activities of the association in Florida as well and many of the prints have contemporary manuscript captions and ink stamps of local photographers and photography studios on the versos. In all a wide-ranging and quite engaging group of large photographs that document this midcentury Latin American social club in Florida. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 2137Various places in Florida Mexico Cuba & Spain 1961. About very good. 138 original prints each 8 x 10 inches; mostly large format images with twelve contact sheet containing multiple smaller images and including several duplicates. Light wear at edges; slight curling. Occasional patches of scuffing or soiling. Scattered manuscript annotations and ink stamps on blank versos of photographs. An interesting aggregation of approximately 150 unique professional images that depict the travels and activities of the Latin American Fiesta Association of Tampa Florida. The cultural heritage group was founded in 1940 and flourished from the late 1940s to the 1980s and organized or participated in local social events had an annual ball and traveled widely across Latin America. The photographs here date from 1949 to the early 1960s and document the travels of association members to Spain Mexico and Cuba. They attended numerous events entertainments dinners and other social gatherings as well as made visits to attractions and local cultural clubs. In Spain and Cuba their trips seem to have been limited to Madrid and Havana respectively and there are some interesting series of travel images in Cuba from just prior to the Revolution. The group seems to have made multiple trips to Mexico and traveled somewhat more widely. Scattered images show the activities of the association in Florida as well and many of the prints have contemporary manuscript captions and ink stamps of local photographers and photography studios on the versos. In all a wide-ranging and quite engaging group of large photographs that document this midcentury Latin American social club in Florida. unknown
1963Best.-Nr. 127791Washington: GPO 1963. Pamphlet. Volume I: vi 1837-1949p. Volume II: vi 1951-2045 xv p. first volume has yellowed wraps rubberstamps and pen markings on front cover second volume cleaner but minor penciling on cover. US. 87th congress 2nd session. GPO unknown books
Hardcover in-8 de 185 pp., portraits, cartonnage de l"editeur. Tres bel exemplaire, tres frais. [MI-17]
1887Best.-Nr. 64748Barcelona Spain: Campania Trasatlantica Espanola S.A. C.T.E. 1887. 8vo. 72 pp. With 2 large double-page colour maps 5 large folding engraved colour deck plans for CTE ocean liners. Red cloth-backed colour chromolithograph boards cover art of CTE liner in port at Gibraltar CTE Barcelona insignia on back cover minor scuffing edgewear minor soiling front cover slightly shaken 2 deckplans w/ very minor closed tears still a VG- copy. First edition of this very rare transatlantic guidebook timetable and deck plans for the Campania Trasatlantica Espanola S.A. Barcelona CTE ocean liner service between Spain Cuba Mexico New York & Colombia. Ports of call after New York included Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Georgetown Charleston Savannah and New Orleans with stops in various ports in Cuba Puerto Rico Jamaica Veracruz Mexico as well as several in Colombia and the Guiana’s. Deck plans engraved by Hermenagilda Miralles Bailan in Barceolna include those for the 8600 ton Reina Ma Cristina 9850 ton Buenos Aires 5450 ton Veracruz 6720 ton Ciudad de Santander and finally the 9700 ton Alfonso XII. Founded originally in 1850 by Spanish businessman and slave trader Don Antonio L. Lopez in 1850 to feed African-American slaves into both Havana as well as Mobile AL & New Orleans LA prior to the Civil War and headquarters was established in Barcelona after the marriage of Lopez to Luisa Bru Lassus. After 1883 Don Claudio B. Lopez took charge of the company and by 1887 had reached over 30 steamships and ocean liners many of which were used by the Spanish Navy following the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. Campania Trasatlantica [Espanola S.A.] (C.T.E.), hardcover
1972Un volume broché au format poche de 288 pp.; couverture illustrée; important cahier photographique au centre du volume. Comme neuf. Voir photo.
1983Best.-Nr. 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 books
1983Best.-Nr. 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