Mersky, Peter RF-8 Crusaders Over Cuba and Vietnam
delPrado/Osprey, , 2001 First Edition Thus. Book Condition: A Very Good Plus Book. Aircraft of the Aces: Men and Legends No. 44. 64pp. Packed weight 300g Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 300 grams. Category: Military ; aviation. ISBN: 8483725746. Inventory No: 0017779. (Book ref. 0017779) £5.00
Didion, Joan Miami
London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1987. First UK Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo 0297793187 1st UK edition, 8vo, tan cloth, pages toned as usual else Good in a sunned else Good unclipped dust jacket. pp 238 (Book ref. 14838) £8.00
Harmer, Gordon R. ( editor) Catalogue of United States Stamps Specialized : Including Issues Under U.S. Administration of Canal Zone, Cuba, Guam, Philippines and Porto Rico. ( Also Danish West Indies and hawaii)
New York: Scott Publications, Inc., 1948. Illustrated by Illustrated. Twenty-sixth Edition. Paper Covered Boards. Good Plus/No Wrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large 553pp. 1948 Twenty-sixth edition. Illustrated with numerous line drawings of stamps.Bound in paper covered boards with some light toning to the spine. There is some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine with a split of 2 cm to the rear hinge from the head of the spine. Light rubbing to the board corners with a little associated bumping and light creasing to the adjacent textblock. Previous owners bookplate to the front paste down and previous owners ink name inscription to the front end paper edowornt t he front to the corners. A few page corners have been neatly turned. on pp313 there is a red biro date 1940 and boxing of the date in the text. Otherwise clean and tight. A good plus copy. (Book ref. 227480) £5.00
Rhoades, Walter; illustrated by J. R. Burgess The Boy from Cuba: A School Story
London: S W Partridge. Hardcover. Undated. Circa 1910s Fourth Edition. 8vo. Decorative maroon cloth with gilt tiles. 332 pp. plus ads. B/w plates. Pages tanned. Inscr. to ffep (dated 1913). Binding a little tender near middle pages. GOOD+ (Book ref. 05854) £8.00
Bishop, W.H.: Old Mexico and her Lost Provinces. A Journery in Mexico, Southern California and Arizona by Way of Cuba.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883 8vo Qtr. Lthr. 1st Edn Illus. x, 509 xxxii, pp. Jopints and backstrip rubbed; library label verso f. cover; stamp prelims and later; ;ink no.s on title page; shelf no. on backstrip. Dust staining and browning. (Book ref. 38820) £55.00
Balfour, Michael The Adversaries : America, Russia and the Open World 1941-1962
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 071000687X Red cloth binding, xvi + 259 pages, list of books for further reading, index; bright condition, no previous owner markings, with pictorial dustjacket, jacket illustrations by Illingworth, spine sunned. The Atlantic Charter of 1941 constituted the West's blue-print for post-war society. Accordingly it is here that Michael Balfour begins his account of how America and Russia developed as the rival "super-powers" in that society. (Book ref. 6895) £4.00
Plate, Thomas; Darvi, Andrea Secret Police: The Inside Story of an International Network
London: Robert Hale, 1982. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0709005598 VG+, no previous owner marks, bright unclipped dustjacket, xvi & 448 pages, extensive bibliography. Secret and semi-secret police organizations are shown with their various styles of arrest, surveillance, physical and psychological terror, and torture. Offers first-hand testimony from informed sources. (Book ref. 6293) £4.00
Ives, John The Marchand Woman
London: Macmillan London Limited, 1980. First UK Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 0333290712 1st UK edition, 8vo, green cloth, Very Good in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket. pp 245 (Book ref. 14782) £8.00
Szajkowski, Bogdan (Edited by): MARXIST GOVERNMENTS - A WORLD SURVEY - VOLUME 2: CUBA-MONGOLIA -
London: The Macmillan Press Ltd. - 1st edition 1981 - Hb: gold gilt titles on black linen - what appears to be a dedication in chinese(?) to ffep else a near very good plus copy. Dw: minor edge wear else unclipped and near very good. Volume 2 of a 3 volume set. (LB10) - (Book ref. 4128) £11.00
Terman, Douglas: Shell Game;
London, Collins, 1985; 1st edition; Hardback'; Nr fine/ Dj Nr fine; 539pp; Black covers with gilt title on spine. " A superb, high-voltage thriller set in Cuba in the early 1960's." (Book ref. 10490) £8.00
FOREIGN OFFICE. CLASS B. CORRESPONDENCE WITH BRITISH MINISTERS AND AGENTS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND WITH FOREIGN MINISTERS IN ENGLAND, RELATING TO THE SLAVE TRADE. FROM APRIL 1, 1858 TO MARCH 31, 1859
London: HMSO, 1859. 276pp. Folio. Blue paper wrappers. British Parliamentary paper. Reports cover Nigeria.Sierra Leone, Martinique, Cuba, Red sea, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt. A very clean copy. (Book ref. 158706) £30.00
Jon Lee Anderson Che Guevara. A Revolutionary Life
London: Qpd, 1997. Card Covers. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 814pp. A nice clean copy illustrated with black and white photographs. (Book ref. 066530) £8.00
SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ: Havana Bay.
New York: Random House, 1999. 1st US edn. Nr fine black boards with M.C.S. blindstamp to cover & black lettering to brown strip spine; Nr fine b/w illus d/w, not p/c or chipped. 16cms x 24cms, 329pp. Clean, unmarked copy. Weight 649g. 06799426620. (Book ref. 3108) £8.00
INFANTE, G. Cabrera: Holy smoke.
London: Faber & Faber, 1985. 1st. VG grey cloth h/b with gilt lettering to spine; VG grey d/w with b/w illus & black lettering, price clipped, not chipped. 14.25cms x 22.25cms, 329pp. Inscrip ffep; clean & unmarked within. "Funniest, most original tribute to the cigar that has ever been written." Weight 536g. 0571135188. (Book ref. 2748) £5.50
CAPUTO, Philip: The voyage.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. 1st. Fine green boards with green lettering to brown strip spine; VG++ green illus d/w with brown lettering, not pc or chipped. 17cms x 24.25cms, 416pp. Uncut page edges. Tale of adventure and family secrets. Clean, unmarked copy. Weight 788g. 0679450394. (Book ref. 2694) £10.00
UNDERHILL Edward Bean The West Indies:
Jackson, Walford and Hodder, 1862 x + 493pp. 1st ed., light toning to title page, worming to original cloth binding and damage to frontispiece otherwise mostly clean. Sections on Bahamas, Cuba, Trinidad, Haiti and Jamaica. The tour described in the book was undertaken at the request of the Treasurer and Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society following emancipation. (Book ref. WINBO0289) £70.00
COMMELIN I. Afbeeldinghe in wat maniere Den Admiral Pieter Adriaensen Ita twee Rycke Honduras vaerders ver overt.
Amsterdam, 1651 Very fine engraving of Havana from the sea. A very sharp impression in fine condition. 14.5 x 11" Depicts the taking of two Spanish silver-ships off Havana by the Dutch Admiral Pieter Adriaensen. From Isaac Commelin's 'Begin ende voortgangh', a narrative of the voyages made by the Dutch East India Company. (Book ref. WINMP0244) £450.00
HUQUIER A View General of the City de Havana of Amerique.
Paris, 1780 Coloured engraving with view of the city from the sea. Good margins. 14.5 x 11.5" (Book ref. WINMP0243) £275.00
VAN DER AA Baye et Ville de Havana ou St Christoval.
, 1729 Fine engraved map with attractive title cartouche. Attractive with very large margins. Fine condition. 12 x 8.5" Re-engraved by Van der Aa in 1729 after the version by Mortier published in 1702. The coastal outline is based on Roggeveen's 1675 map. At the entrance of the harbor is a watch tower,which according to the text would fly as many flags as foreign ships as had been spotted in the vicinity. Decorative cartouche with the original name of Havana,which in full was San Cristóbal de la Habana. (Book ref. WINMP0239) £175.00
FURNE La Havane.
Paris, 1840 Steel engraving with wide margins. Fine. 6 x 5" (Book ref. WINMP0238) £36.00