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By: N/A
Price: $12.00
Publisher: American Autombile Association: 1950
Seller ID: 24402
Great graphic cover art and a whopping 192 pages of information and vintage advertising makes this a worthy addition to the travel ephemera collection. More than a brochure -- pactically a book. Measures 4-1/2"x9-1/4" and is illustrated amply with maps and black and white photographs. Very clean and well kept with just a a little cluster of small spots to back cover, View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: MacFarland: 2006
Seller ID: 18254A
Crisp, BRAND new copy. Pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated with black and white photos. A detailed look at the rise of Mexican cinema in the U.S. from 1920-1960, partiicularly in areas with a large Hispanic population. Book covers theaters, distributors, audience demographics, popular and citical reception of films, and, of course, the stars. 204 pages. Indexed. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: San Francisco, The History Company: 1886
Seller ID: 22028
Beautifully and finely bound in half leather with burgundy paisley paper at front and back boards which match endpapers. Paisely exterior edges in same color. Spine shows delicate gilt tooling, plus two title boxes, one in red and one in black. Book is Volume IX in a larger series of Bancroft's works, but here is a stand-alone title. Bindiing is tight, there's no cracking to hinges and pages and fold-out map are very clean and attractive. Wear is to leather at corners, p... View more info
By: Bolaño, Roberto
Price: $25.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2008
Edition: First Translated Edition
Seller ID: 28249
Books are very clean and nice with no writing and no spines creases. The only defect is a small spot to outer top edge of one book -- but NOT a remainder mark. Slipcase is clean and sturdy. Inside it the books measure 5-1/2 x 8-1/2" . Written originally in Spanish in 2004 nd here for the first time in English. Three academics are looking for a reclusive Geman author -- a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment, a widowed philosopher, and a police detective... View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Mexico, Ediciones Singulares: 1966
Edition: First Edition Stated. Limited Edition
Inscription: SIGNED by Author
Seller ID: 19036
Unique book fashioned to look like a stone wall and thus comprised of a composite material that makes it both textured and very heavy. The circle design on the face is raised, as are the gilt letters below, while the spine is a smooth dark green leather with gilt printing, slightly faded. Pages pristine, but lower back corner damaged where a piece has completely snapped off. But even with this defect there is much that is special about this book. The volume is a limite... View more info
By: Harwood, Gary;Hassler, David
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Kent, Ohio, U.S.A., Kent State Univ Pr: 2006
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 24088
Beautiful book -- crisp and clean with no names or writing, no bumps to boards and no tears or chips. Measures 8-3/4" tall and 11-1/2" high. Dustjcket protected by brand new mylar cover. Illustrated in its entirety with color photographs taken at a farm in Hartville, Ohio which employs Mexican migrant workers over a period of five years. Includes text. A compassionate look at the lives and culture of a tightly knit community. 160 pages. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Self-published: 1947
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 24514
Very handsome self-published booklet which is quite desirable for both appearance and content. The booklet is clean and bright and printed on quality paper with handsome illustration. 42 pages. Measures 5"x7-1/2". No names or writing. What's interesting is that the actual battle of San Jacinto lasted only twenty minutes, but had been planned for six YEARS! View more info
By: Light, Ken; California Historical Society; McConahay, Mary Jo
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Aperture: 1988
Seller ID: 26021TB
Crisp, beautiful book -- no bumps to boards, no names or writing, no tears or chips and no price-clip. Dustjacket will arrive in brand new mylar cover. Measures 10-1/4"x10". This book is both art and documentary about the quest of Mexican emigrees to reach the "Promised Land" -- America. It's an intimate view which often ends in a tragic story. The black and white photographs -- full page -- are stunning. View more info
By: Lumholtz, Carl
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Mineola, New York, U.S.A., Dover Publications: 1987
Edition: Reprints
Seller ID: 24912
Two clean, nice paperback volumes measuring 5-1/4"x8-1/2". No spine creases, no cover lift, and no names or writing. Isolated spots of edgewear, primarily at edges of spines and flat crease to upper croners on one.. Originally published by Scribner's in 1902. Both volumes contain original illustrations and unused COLOR MAP remains affixed to inside of back cover of volume II. 1026 collective pages. View more info
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Scholastic Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition Stated
Inscription: SIGNED By Author, No Inscription
Seller ID: 23894
Book is crisp and clean inside and out. The book was SIGNED by the author on the title page with no inscription. The book shows no bumps, no tears and chips to jacket, no creases, and no remainder mark. The pages and page edges are pristine and the jacket is covered with a brand new mylar cover. There is also no price-clip. The two metallic stickers are the announcement of awards -- gold for the Pura Belpre Award and the silver for the Jane Addams Children's Book Award.... View more info