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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez (3 vols)
by [CABEZA de VACA] ADORNO, Rolena and Charles Pautz
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- 1999
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SGD 343.42
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. First Edition. First printings. Three large octavo volumes (27cm). Blue cloth hardovers; xxxvi,436; xviii,476; xxxviii,428pp; maps; illus. All three volumes complete, clean, and unmarked; a Fine set. In the original publisher's slipcase, slightly worn and soiled with bumps at bottom corners; Very Good. Item Price
SGD 343.42
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
by STEPHENS, John L.; Frederick Catherwood (illus)
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- 1848
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SGD 686.85
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1848. Twelfth Edition. Two octavo volumes (23cm). Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth, stamped in gilt on fronts and spines; plain endpapers; I: [i]-iv,[2],[v]-[x],[9]-424pp; II: [x],[7]-474pp; vol. I with frontispiece, map, 21 lithographic plates, and in-text wood engravings; vol. II with bifold frontispiece and 45 plates and wood engravings. An attractive set, lightly rubbed with minor… Read more about this item Item Price
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Broadside: Panteon de Menudencias - Un Vestiglo. Periódico Dependiente del Pueblo, Tomo I, Núm. 8
by [MEXICO] [MANILLA, Manuel, follower of José-Guadalupe Posada] (artist)
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- 1919
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SGD 1,305.01
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Mexico: Blas Vanegas Arroyo, 1919. Broadside, printed in black on newsprint (measuring 40cm x 60cm), with text in six columns, large engraving at center, beneath five smaller ones. Faint horizontal fold smoothed out at center, a few tiny tears along margins, expected toning; Very Good or better. Well-preserved example of this large Calavera broadside attributed to Manuel Manilla (see… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hacienda
by PORTER, Katherine Anne
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- 1934
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SGD 206.05
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Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1934. First, Limited Edition. Number 78 of 895 numbered copies. Second state, with corrected text on p.52, that leaf a cancel. Octavo. Red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; t.e.g.; unprinted acetate jacket and publisher's slipcase; 81pp. A Near Fine copy, a shade sunned on spine as usual. In the original slipcase, slightly toned… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dick Crowninshield, the Assassin, and Zachary Taylor, the Soldier. The Difference Between Them
by [PACIFISM] [MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR] WRIGHT, Henry C[larke]
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N.p., n.d. [Hopedale: 1848?]. 16mo (15cm). Sewn self-wrappers; 12pp. A worn copy, stain on first leaf bleeds (with diminishing effect) through entire text; marginal loss to final leaf, not costing text; still, complete and Good. Issued without imprint, but likely printed at Adin Ballou's Hopedale Community, where Wright was a resident (but see note below). Date of composition is… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jayhawker: A Play in Three Acts
by LEWIS, Sinclair and Lloyd Lewis
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- 1935
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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SGD 68.68
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xx,163,[1]pp. Gentle sunning to spine ends and upper board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently sunned, lightly shelfworn and dust-soiled, with… Read more about this item Item Price
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South of the Border: México en la Imaginación Norteamericana 1914-1947/ Mexico in the American Imagination 1914-1947
by OLES, James; Karen Cordero Reiman, essay; Marta Ferragut, trans
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- 1993
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SGD 48.08
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Washington DC: Smithsonian, 1993. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xix, 296pp. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Illus. in b&w and color throughout. A tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket, spine mildly sunned. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Published in conjunction with exhibition of the same name at Yale University Art… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ranchos of Don Pacifico Ontiveros, with Ontiveros Genealogy [Signed by Both Authors]
by CARPENTER, Virginia L. and Erlinda P. Ontiveros
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- 1982
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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SGD 171.71
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Santa Ana, CA: Friis-Pioneer Press, 1982. First Edition. First printing. Signed by both authors on front free endpaper. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; gilt spine and cover titles, 247pp. A fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. Item Price
SGD 171.71
Another Mexico
by GREENE, Graham
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- First American Edition
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- 1939
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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SGD 68.68
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New York: Viking Press, 1939. First American Edition. First American edition. Octavo (22cm). Dull orange cloth, titled on spine, tan topstain; cartographic endpapers; [x],279,[1]pp; title page illustration and black and white plates. Rubbed at spine ends and corners, slight spine fading, generally Very Good.
Greene's account of his travel to Mexico, where he investigated the effects of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tales of Power
by CASTANEDA, Carlos
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- 1974
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SGD 89.29
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt and orange to spine and front board, clean and strong, in a bright, striking pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 287pp. Internally clean. Scarlet endpapers. A classic of esoteric exploration, magical enlightenment, and some specifically Mexican mysticism.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 89.29
On the Long Tide
by [TEXAS FICTION] KREY, Laura
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- 1940
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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SGD 54.95
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; maroon top-stain; 642pp. Tight, straight and unmarked, with top-stain deep and unfaded; Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap), lightly sunned and edge-rubbed with a short closed tear to upper margin of front panel; Very Good. An epic novel of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Destiny and Glory
by [FILIBUSTERS] WALLACE, Edward S.
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- 1957
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SGD 54.95
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New York: Coward-McCann, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Tight, square, and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, priced on front flap, slightly soiled and edgeworn, Very Good.
Account of American imperial adventures throughout the Caribbean and Latin America in the years between the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. Includes… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emilio Kosterlitzky: Eagle of Sonora and the Southwest Border
by [MEXICAN REVOLUTION] SMITH, Cornelius C. (Jr.)
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- 1970
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SGD 103.03
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Chicago: Arthur H. Clark Co, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; blue publisher's top-stain, fore- and bottom edges uncut; 344pp; illus. Fine copy, in the publisher's original unprinted kraft-paper dustwrapper. Illustrations by the author. No. VII in the Frontier Military Series. Item Price
SGD 103.03
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Southwest
by ALLEN, John Houghton; Paul Laune, illus
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- 1952
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SGD 103.03
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no.390 of an unspecified number of "Advance Presentation Copies" signed by the author. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 at base of front flap); lightly dusted with a few scuffs at joints and extremities; Very Good.
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SGD 103.03
Rebellion in the Borderlands: Anarchism and the Plan of San Diego, 1904-1923
by SANDOS, James A.
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- 1992
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 237pp; illus. Straight, tight, and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, also Near Fine.
On the Flores Magon brothers and the anarchist plot to use a violent revolution to establish an anarchist Tejano republic in the states of… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico [with] Diplomatic Days
by [MEXICAN REVOLUTION] O'SHAUGHNESSY, Edith
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- [1916 & 1917]
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SGD 171.71
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New York: Harper and Brothers, [1916 & 1917]. First Editions. First printings, with correct letter codes on versos of title pages. Octavo. First title in deep green cloth; gilt titles; top edge gilt; x,356pp; frontis; 11 unnumbered leaves of plates. Second title in brick red cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; x,338pp;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Watching and Waiting on the Border
by [MEXICAN REVOLUTION] BATCHELDER, Roger; Alexander Powell, introd
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- 1917
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SGD 68.68
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Khaki boards, titled in blue on spine and front cover; xxviii,221pp; frontispiece and 23 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones) from original photographs by the author. Moderate external wear and soil; ink catalog numbers to title page (but no ex-library indications); about Very Good. Reminiscences by an ex-National Guard… Read more about this item Item Price
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El Coyote the Rebel
by [MEXICAN REVOLUTION] PEREZ, Luis; Leo Politi, illus
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- [1947]
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New York: Henry Holt, [1947]. First Edition. First printring. Octavo. Orange pictorial cloth; dustjacket; 233pp; illus. Tight and straight, free of markings; Very Good or better. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75 on front flap) but slightly rubbed and chipped on both front and rear panels; just VG. Memoir of a Mexican-American citizen who joined the Mexican revolutionary… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alamo Soldier: the Story of Peaceful Mitchell
by [MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR] TEMPLETON, R.L.
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- 1976
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SGD 61.82
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Austin: Eakin Press, 1976. Second printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 158pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and a half-shade faded on spine panel, Very Good. A biography of Napoleon Bonaparte "Peaceful" Mitchell, a seventeen-year old Tennesseean in the Army of Texas in 1836, one of thirteen men in Davy Crocket's Tennessee Volunteers who… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Mexican War 1846-1848
by [MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR] BAUER, K. Jack
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- 1974
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SGD 41.21
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New York: Macmillan, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed, cloth-covered boards (hardcover); 454pp; illus. Clean, tight and straight; Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly faded on spine, lightly soiled; Very Good. A standard work, well-researched and illustrated with reproductions of contemporary images. Item Price
SGD 41.21