Search Results: Mexico, South America, Central America from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Tabasco, Mexico: Joaquin Mortiz, (1975). "Private Limited Edition," this number 277 of 2000 copies signed by Fernando Pereznieto Castro. Folio (13.75" x 11.5"), [94] pages, illustrated. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated brown cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Text in Spanish & English
Covers slightly spayed, modest tanning in the margins, otherwise very good in like dust jacket with traces of edgewear & a small stain on the spine. "The facade of the city has aspects which gives it a distict personality. This city, our city, is old - one thousand years old. European things here have an Indian air; three thousand years of intimate cultures. The best traces of the city's face entered into the eyes and hands of Fernando Pereznieto and reach the paper with the emotion of one who loves and caresses. He chooses angles full of beauty and his concept of light gives, sometimes, an idea of the color. For this young and noteworthy artist, drawing is his means of expression in which stone, as a flower of stone,… Read More

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico: no publisher [Universidad de Guadalajara ?], 12 issues: second series, numbers 3, 4, & 6, September, October, & December, 1951; numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, January through July, 1952; third series, numbers 21, 22, 23, January/ February, March/ April, May/ June, 1953 Oblong octavos, 8 or 12 pp each, illustrated, with supplements for each issue but one. Publisher's printed wraps, partially unopened.
Number 21 lacking supplement (if issued), age tanned, lightly soiled & foxed, soft vertical crease, occasional edge wear including small losses (text unaffected), Very Good.. Ariel, an obscure Mexican journal of fine arts & literature was published erratically in a total of just 26 issues between January, 1949 & October, 1953 Each issue features poetry, criticism, reviews, & more from contributors including Concha Monica, Agustin Basave, Gloria Riestra, Carlos Valdes, & others. Editor Carballo, author, journalist, & one of the most recognized literary critics of Mexico,… Read More

Berryville, Clarke County Virginia: Published & edited by John O. Crown, Volume xxi, number 34, October 10, 1889. Broadsheet newspaper, single sheet measuring 24 inches by 34 inches folded once vertically forming four pages.
Old folds, moderately toned & foxed, tattered including small tears & losses in the margins, creasing, one-half inch split at a fold briefly affecting text, pencil annotation in the top margin, otherwise good or better.
Contents include:Judases in MexicoInternational Sunday School LessonRevolt in the Black BeltLocal, often illustrated advertising
Publisher & editor, John Oliver Crown was the "son of Frederick and Henrietta Thomas Crown, husband of Sarah Jane Smith Crown, 1848-1916. Served in Co. B, 35th VA Cavalry "White's Comanches," CSA during the Civil War. In 1870 he returned to Berryville, VA, and purchased The Clarke Co. Courier and was owner/editor/publisher until his death. At the time of his funeral the businesses of Berryville closed to pay homage to him. He was a writer… Read More

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, (1959). First edition. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), 212 pp, illustrated. Publisher's gilt lettered green cloth, in printed & decorated dust jacket. Endpaper maps.
Slight shelf wear, trace of foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in moderately soiled & rubbed dust jacket with light edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, still good or better.
"Edward Thornton Tayloe, son of a prominent and wealthy Virginia planter, accompanied United States' Minister Poinsett to Mexico as a self-sustaining private secretary Here he recorded the earliest objective, long-term, eyewitness account of Mexico and Mexican life by an American citizen following the recognition of Mexican independence by the United States " ~Excerpted from the dust jacket

New-York: Printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. First American edition. Volume II only. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"), 377 pages. Publisher's full sheep with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label. This copy from the library of Miss Sidney I. Heiskell of Winchester, Virginia with her nearly contemporary signature in old ink at the front free endpaper.
Binding rubbed & scuffed, shallow losses mostly at the top of the spine, previous owner's name & place at the ffep, text toned, sporadic foxing, withal a very good copy.
Previous owner Sidney Isabella Heiskell (1805 - 1882) was the daughter of John Heiskell, a journalist & publisher of the Winchester Gazette from 1811 to 1826. She married Samuel Ott who was "one of the pioneer merchants of Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia).
An important book, albeit volume II only, which provides "researches relative to the geography of Mexico, the extent of its surface and its political division into intendancies, the physical aspect of the country, the population, the… Read More