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Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1988. 2a Edicion. 310p., b/w illus., original stiff printed wrappers.

FL: Mark-Age, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Book shows light yellow stains on inner panels/end pgs, dustwrapper shows fading of spine, lightly soiled panels, 1/2in Tear on top spine end, slight tearing(1/8in) of spine ends, book shows 3 small brown stains on outer pg ends. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Mexico City: Sigio Veintiuno Editores, 2001. Trade Paperback. 220p., text in Spanish, originally published in English in 1997, this is one of 2,000 copies in the first Spanish language edition. Explores the fear of crime among women, especially women of color.

NY: Arcade Publishing. (1995). Advance Uncorrected Proof. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good.

Republica de Cuba: Depertamento de Relaciones Publicas / Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1960. Pamphlet. 23p., professionally printed on semi-coated paperstock throughout, with scattered press photographs; softbound in photo-decorated color wraps, clean and sound, a very good copy.

Cascade Books, 8/4/2011. Paperback. New book.

Beograd (Belgrade): Srecna Galerija, Studentski Kulturni Centar, 1995. Softcover. G (White covers have soil marks; otherwise clean.). White paper stapled wraps, 32 pp., 9 BW illus., 10 color illus. Text is in Bosnian and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1995 exhibition of portraiture rendered by Yugoslavian artist Nada Nadezda Vitorovic (1935-1999). With essays by Slavko Timotijevic and the artist herself. Includes a chronology, as well as samples of this portraiture cycle. Scarce.

Beograd (Belgrade): Galerija Graficki kolektiv, 1985. Softcover. VG- (Covers have aged slightly; interior is clean.). White stapled wraps, 20 black pages, 8 color illus. Test is in Bosnian and English. Issued in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of artwork rendered by Yugoslavian artist Nada Nadezda Vitorovic (1935-1999). With an essay by Katarina Ambrozic. Includes brief bio, exhibitions history, bibliography, and 8 full-color examples of Vitorovic's work. One of 1000 copies. Scarce.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1997. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the First American edition. Blue wrappers. Translated from the Spanish by Sabina Cienfuegos. Fine.

São Paulo: Museu Lasar Segall, 1999. b/w and color plates, facs., map, fldg. pict. wrps. Selection of illustrated books ancient to modern in the Mindlin collection.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Tan wrappers. Slight curling else near fine.

Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, UNTREF; Editorial EDUNTREF; Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, MUNTREF, 2015. b/w and color plates,ports., appen., bio.chron., cat., color pict. fldg. wrps. CONTENTS: Presentación / Aníbal Jozami -- Graciela Sacco: Nada esta donde se cree... -- La medida del deseo / Diana B. Wechsler -- Nada esta donde se cree... / Diana B. Wechsler -- Interferencia / Graciela Sacco -- Graciela Sacco / Andrea Giunta -- Sobras que perforan la calle / Lyle Rexer -- Sobre Graciela Sacco / Vikki Bell -- Extranjerias / Nestor Garcia Canclini -- Cerca de la memoria que fluye del rio / Fabian Lebenglik -- Apéndice -- Graciela Sacco -- Lista de obras exhibidas. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.

New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Red cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine and front cover, which has the Longmans device and ruling in silver. Clean text; 295 pages, with an eight-page catalog in the rear. Profusely illustrated [23]. Vintage bookplate on the front paste-down. Light rub to the margins. The spine has slightly faded, with the gilt dull but quite readable. In an archival plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London John Murray. 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 20cm, the First Edition, vi,320,32p., publisher's ads., 2 maps on one folding sheet, in the original blind decorated green cloth, gilt spine tit les, top spine edges a bit frayed, expertly restored, mainly unopened, fin e copy T.P.L. 3220. Lande 847. Tremenheere writes extensively on natural re sources, transportation, politics, education and social life in the two cou ntries, but a large part of the book is concerned with the development of r ailways in both Canada and the United States. The map is one of the earlies t to show the routes of all the railways in North America, both extant and projected.

Rome: Fondazione Memmo, 2011. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Photographs Throughout. Very Light Grey Cloth, Paste On Label On Front Cover, Black Endpapers. Second Edition, One Of 3000 Copies, To Accompany The Exhibition In Rome In 2011. Fine.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 7 7/8" Tall. 367 Pp. Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, Endpapers With Illustration By Carlos Merida.Light Wear, No Fraying, Spine Gilt Partly Rubbed Away, Hinges Cracked, Small Bookstore Symbol Stamped On Front Endpaper. With A Loose Photograph With Text In White "From The Bookroom Of Nada And Carl", With Photo Of Home Library Shelving, Wood Office Chair And Desk, Probably Circa 1932. Per Wikipedia, Carleton Beals (1893 - 1979) Was An American Journalist, Writer, Historian, And Political Activist With A Special Interest In Latin America. A Major Journalistic Coup For Him Was His Interview With The Nicaraguan Rebel Augusto Sandino In February 1928. In The 1920S He Was Part Of The Cosmopolitan Group Of Intellectuals, Artists, And Journalists In Mexico City. He Remained An Active, Prolific, And Politically Engaged Leftist Journalist And Is The Subject Of A Scholarly Biography. In 1918, He Spent A Brief Period Of Time In Jail As A World War I Draft Evader. Upon Release, He Decided To Go See The World, And With What Little Money He Had, Beals And His Wife Lillian Drove To Mexico.[11] There, He Founded The English Preparatory Institute In 1919, Taught At The American High School During 1919 To 1920, And Was On The Personal Staff Of President Carranza (1920). They Left Mexico In 1921 For Europe Where Beals Studied At The University Of Madrid, And Then The University Of Rome. Back In Mexico, He Became A Correspondent For The Nation, Separated From His Wife, And Became Romantically Involved With Photographer Tina Modotti's Sister, Mercedes. In February 1928, Oswald Garrison Villard, Editor Of The Nation, Sent Beals To Nicaragua To Write A Series Of Articles. He Became Notable As The Only Foreign Journalist Who Interviewed General Augusto Sandino During Nicaragua's 1927-33 War Against Us Military Occupation. In All, Beals Wrote Over 200 Magazine Articles For Publications Such As The New Republic And Harper's Magazine. Beals Also Wrote More Than 45 Books, Including On History, Geography, And Travel. Some Of His Books Are Written For A Juvenile Audience. His Autobiography, Glass Houses, Was Published By J.B. Lippincott Company In 1938. In 1931, Beals Was Awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship For Biographies.] His Biography Subjects Included Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto De La Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation [His Father Was Her Step-Son], And Leon Trotsky. During His Career, Beals Witnessed Mexican Revolutions, Lectured On Shakespeare, And Was Held Incommunicado By A Mexican General.[10] His Travels Took Him To French Morocco, Tunisia, Algiers, Greece, Turkey, The Soviet Union, Germany, And The Caribbean. He Was A Ford Hall Forum Speaker In 1936, And A Member Of The American Committee For The Defense Of Leon Trotsky In 1937. The Following Year, Time Magazine Called Beals, "The Best Informed And The Most Awkward Living Writer On Latin America." During The 1960S, He Supported The Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Beals Was A Hero To The Young People Of Cuba.

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new.

Buenos Ayres: [Niños Expósitos], 1812. First edition. I leaf. Edges chipped, browned, one corner marginally darkened, still a good copy.. 2 pp. 4to. Dated at the end: Sala Capitular de Buenos-Ayres diciembre 10 de 1812. Dated at end of contestation: Buenos-Ayres diciembre 19 de 1812. Concerns the procedures to be followed in the next election. Rare. OCLC shows two copies: JCB and BN Chile. ABPC shows none at auction in the last 50 years. Furlong IV, 2712. Zinny, Bibliografía histórica p.83: No. 37. Fors: Imprenta de los Niños p. 45.