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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.