Nice examples of the small-format stories published by Spanish children's book specialist Saturnino Calleja's "Recreo Infantil: Cuentos morales para niños" series. These child-size books, each 16 pages, measure (roughly) 2-7/8 by 4 inches, with a chromolithograph cover and one or more steel engravings inside. Calleja had a staff of writers.....
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113 pages, but printed only on the odd pages. 9-1/2 by 7 inches (oblong). An edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An exploration of the influence of Catalán culture in Matanzas, Cuba, and the connection between the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia and the Ermita de Monserrate in the hills.....
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98 pages. 7-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. An anthology of Catalan and Cuban poetry, the former with Spanish translations and the latter with Catalan translations. The text is mimeographed from typescript, reproducing handwritten titles above each poem. The cover reproduces a photograph of.....
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49 pages. 8 by 9-1/2 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección del Estero. Poems by a writer born in Cuba and living in Europe, printed on estraza (sugarcane waste) paper. The book was designed and illustrated by Yoban Enrique Trujillo with a pictorial collage cover assembled from a dozen.....
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113 pages, but printed only on the odd pages. 9-1/2 by 7 inches (oblong). An edition of 200 copies. Colección Venablos. An exploration of the influence of Catalán culture in Matanzas, Cuba, and the connection between the Virgin of Montserrat in Catalonia and the Ermita de Monserrate in the hills above.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A bilingual collection of poems from a comtemporary Spanish poet. Translated by the New Mexican writer E. A. Mares. Published in an edition of 250 numbered copies signed by González and Mares. According to OCLC, only seven copies are held in libraries. 29 pages. First edition (first printing).
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First Edition. 399 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Illustrated wiht numerous photographs, drawings, and full-color reproductions of paintings. Published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the Americas. First US edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Fuentes on the dedication page and dated in.....
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First Edition. The first book on economics written by a Spaniard and published in Spain (a critical edition was published by the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales in 1989). Elementos was an official university textbook for a generation, drawing on the work of Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, and K. H. Rau.....
Price: $1,250
