Category: Cuba

Por que...cuentos negros de cuba

Price: $88.97 USD

Publisher: Spain, : 1972

Seller ID: 63031

Condition: Very Good with No dust jacket as issued

(Written in Spanish) Why black tales of Cuba "Passionate about the imaginary universe of the different African cultures in Cuba, Lydia Cabrera began publishing an extensive research work in Paris. Contes Négres de Cuba (1936), translated by Francis de Miomandre, embraced the powerful current that African cultures had awakened in Europe at the hands of Leo Frobenius, Blaise Cendrars and Paul Morand, among others. Initially conceived as a series of stories to alleviate the illness of her friend Teresa de la Parra, the book immediately attracted critical attention. Returning to Cuba in 1939, Lydi...
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Playa Girón/Bay of Pigs Washington's First Military Defeat in the Americas

By: Castro, Fidel & Jose Ramon Fernandez

Price: $11.97 USD

Publisher: New York, Pathfinder : 2001

Seller ID: 63033

ISBN-13: 9780873489256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Stated first edition.Hardcover with dust in Mylar cover. In April 1961, Cuba?s revolutionary armed forces defeated a U.S.-organized invasion by 1,500 mercenaries. In the process, the Cuban people set an example for workers, farmers, and youth the world over that with political consciousness, class solidarity, courage, and revolutionary leadership, one can stand up to enormous might and seemingly insurmountable odds?and win. Foreword by Jack Barnes, 20-page photo section and other photos, maps, charts, chronology, glossary, further reading, index. Tracking provided free. ; Photographs; 8.2 X 5....
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In Castro's Clutches -

By: Clifton Edgar Fite -

Price: $15.97 USD

Publisher: Moody Publishing - : 1969

Seller ID: 62725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Hardcover with dust in mylar cover. Signed by author who was State Chaplain of Georgia and who had spent five years as a missionary in Cuba and was arrested by Castro's Government on charges of trafficking of Cuban currency. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 158 pages; Signed by Author
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The Tiger and the Children Fidel Castro and the Judgment of History

By: Escalona, Roberto Luque

Price: $36.97 USD

Publisher: London, Transaction Publishers : 1992

Seller ID: 62719

ISBN-13: 9781560005933

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine is sun faded. Crease in cover otherwise very good condition with no writing or underlining in text.This may well be the most significant piece of writing to come out of Cuba in 33 yearsor the life of the Cuban Revolution of 1959. Since Fidel Castro has always made the claim that "History Shall Absolve Me," the author of this book, journalist, writer and human rights activist, Roberto Luque Escalona, subjects this self-inflicted judgment to the facts of real history and finds that history shall condemn rather than absolve the long-standing dictator of Cuba. ; 8.8 X 5.8 X 0.8 inches; 212 p...
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The Taming of Fidel Castro

By: Halperin, Maurice

Price: $13.97 USD

Publisher: Berkley, Ca, Univ of California Pr : 1981

Seller ID: 62720

ISBN-13: 9780520041844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

First edition. Dust in mylar. Price clipped. Maurice Hyman Halperin (March 3, 1906 ? February 9, 1995) was an American writer, professor, diplomat, and accused Soviet spy; B&W Illustrations; 9.0 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 345 pages
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Full Official History of the War with Spain (salesman's sample) The true Inwardness of the War

By: Halstead, Murat

Price: $159.97 USD

Publisher: Newburyport, Ma, J.H.Moore & Co. : circa 1890

Seller ID: 63766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

A scarce if not rare "Salesman's dummy" for the full complete book which was sold by subscription only. Has a fine half-tone engraving frontispiece from photograph.Also has a number of black and white photos (photos) and illustrations. Maps printed in blue of Phillipines, Hawaii, Cuba and Puerto Rico. A colour lithographic plate of spine for the book to be published affixed to back endpaper section of this sample. This book has a Blue cover with gold print and rendering of the U.S. Capital. Prior owners gift inscription dated 1904 on front endpaper. Contents otherwise clean and bright. Bound ...
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The Bay of Pigs - the Leader's Story of Brigade 2506

By: Johnson, Haynes

Price: $16.97 USD

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. : 1964

Seller ID: 62822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

The full story- inside account of what really went on at the White House meetings where the agony of decision was endured (the decision to invade, the close decision against the commitment of U.S. troops), and in the councils of the C.I.A. and the Pentagon. Here is the story of the secret camps in Guatemala, of the beaches, of the swamps and of the prisons of Havana. Here is the first authentic account of the ransom meetings between Castro and James Donovan. In all, and in detail, it is a heroic tale and a shocking revelation. ; B&W Illustrations & Photos; 8.5 X 5.7 X 1.6 inches; 363 pages
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Insider My Hidden Life As a Revolutionary in Cuba

By: Llovio-Menendez, Jose Luis

Price: $7.97 USD

Publisher: Bantam : 1988

Seller ID: 62940

ISBN-13: 9780553051148

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Book and dust look new, never read. A once-high ranking Cuban government offical now living in the United States paints a vivid portrait of the Cuban people, their lives under Castro's rule, and his survival and escape from his native country. "Having fought against Batista, Llovio-Menendez returned from France to Cuba to find Communism replacing the ideals of the revolution, and for 17 years had to sing the party tune before he could engineer escape. As a former government insider, he records the failure of the "New Man" and reports on the corruption, jealousy, and incompetence of the new el...
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CUBA La Nacion que Agoniza

By: LUIS A GOMEZ DOMINGUEZ

Price: $18.97 USD

Publisher: Miami, FL, San Lazaro Graphics : 1991

Seller ID: 62724

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Green cover with black print. Written in spanish. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages
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Obra Poetica

By: Marti, Jose

Price: $16.97 USD

Publisher: Dominican Republic, La Moderno Poesia, Inc. : 1983

Seller ID: 62483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

Book looks new. Dust has minor rubbing. Text in Spanish. Prologue by Lucila Marrero. Printed in the Dominican Republic. Dark blue cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, Fully indexed. Dust jacket in mylar protective cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 382 pages
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Castro's Final Hour The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba

By: Oppenheimer, Andres

Price: $8.97 USD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1992

Seller ID: 62712

ISBN-13: 9780671728731

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

"Castro's Final Hour" opens with the 1989 executions of four high-ranking Cuban military officers of which two stood out among the rest: Col. Antonio de La Guardia and Division General Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez. According to Oppenheimer, these executions may have well marked the disillusionment of the Cuban people with their revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro. The executions may have also precipitated Cuba's disintegration in the eyes of the world community. Oppenheimer writes of the decline of Cuba's relations with its ideological allies in Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Angola, German...
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Las Mejores Estampas de Secades

By: Secades, Eladio

Price: $16.97 USD

Publisher: Seminario, Mexico, Medina Hermanos : 1969

Seller ID: 62702

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Paperback edition written in Spanish of the Major prints of Secades.Some browning to pages. limited edition of 2000 copies printed in 1969 and a former owner signed this copy in 1971. The joy of the author in these photos is a reflection of what he communicated to the people of Cuba. Few understood and described the character and customs of the Cuban as the author of Estampas de la poca . In this book we present the best collection of these prints, following the selection made by the author himself. The amenity and humor in the reading will accompany the reader and will allow him to know the s...
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Category: Cuba