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EMPRESS OF THE SPLENDID SEASON.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the Pulitzer prize winning author of 'The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. " Set in New York City in the 1940's to the 1960's, this is the story of a beautiful and once prosperous Cuban emigre, who becomes a cleaning lady, but remains an 'empress of fortitude and dignity.' 342 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0175702.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 38726More details Price: $18.00 -
A SIMPLE HABANA MELODY (from when the world was good.)
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," set in Havana, Cuba in the years after World War II. 338 pp plus a postscript. ISBN: 0-06-0175699.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 50526More details Price: $16.00 -
THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, (1992.). Author's second novel, set in 1949, this is the story of two Cuban brothers, workers by day, musicians by night. Winner of Pulitzer prize. Movie tie-in edition with photo from movie on front cover. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0974516.
Condition: Very good condition (remainder line)
Book ID: 43052More details Price: $9.00 -
A SIMPLE HABANA MELODY (from when the world was good.)
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love," set in Havana, Cuba in the years after World War II. SIGNED on the title page. 338 pp plus a postscript. ISBN: 0-06-0175699.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 61110More details Price: $30.00 -
BEAUTIFUL MARIA OF MY SOUL: Or, The True Story of Maria Garcia y Cifuentes, the Lady Behind a Famous Song.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the Cuban beauty who stole the heart of Nestor Castillos and inspired him to write the Mambo King's greatest hit. 340 pp. ISBN: 9781401323349.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56039More details Price: $18.00 -
THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second novel, set in 1949, this is the story of two Cuban brothers, workers by day, musicians by night. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and basis for the movie of the same name. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-374-20125-0.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56104More details Price: $25.00 -
HAVANA: An Earl Swagger Novel.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Simon & Schuster, (2003). SIGNED first edition - Novel set in 1953 Cuba, where ex-Marine Earl Swagger has been sent to fight the American mobsters who control the Havana casinos, and to attempt to derail a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. SIGNED on the title page. 408 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82600More details Price: $30.00 -
CHANGO'S BEADS AND TWO-TONE SHOES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Viking, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The final book in his award winning Albany cycle, featuring journalist Daniel Quinn, who meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. "A tale of revolutionary intrigue, heroic journalism, crooked politicians, drug-running gangsters, Albany race riots, and the improbable rise of Fidel Castro. His epic journey carries him through the nightclubs and jungles of Cuba and into the newsrooms and racially charged streets of Albany on the day Robert Kennedy is fatally shot in 1968. . . an unforgettably riotous story of revolution, romance, and redemption, set against the landscape of the civil rights movement as it challenges the legendary and vengeful Albany political machine." SIGNED on the title page. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0670022977.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 89193More details Price: $45.00 -
SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS: A Comparative Study of Virginia and Cuba.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks / Ivan R. Dee, (1989.). In each section - Conquest, Colonization and the Establishment of Imperial Control; The Legal Structure; Anglicanism, Catholicism and the Negro Slave; Slavery and the Economy; the Freedman as an Indicator of Assimilation - the experiences of slaves in Virgina and Cuba are compared and the uniqueness of chattel slavery as it existed in the US is highlighter. Index. xi, 270 pp. ISBN: 0-929587049.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (straight uncreased spine, clean contents).
Book ID: 74618More details Price: $11.50 -
TELEX FROM CUBA.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Scribner, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Her first novel, set in the American community in Cuba - the 300,000 acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane - in the years leading up to Castro's revolution. SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the National Book Award. 322 pp. ISBN: 141656103x.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (toning to edges of textblock).
Book ID: 74753More details Price: $40.00 -
TELEX FROM CUBA.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Scribner, (2008.). First edition - Her first novel, set in the American community in Cuba - the 300,000 acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane - in the years leading up to Castro's revolution. Nominated for the National Book Award. 322 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (lower corner of back corner torn off, some toning to edges of textblock) An uncommon advance issue. .
Book ID: 73189More details Price: $25.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. First edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (upper corner of back cover slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 46433More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SUGAR ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the love and conflict between a mother and daughter in 1960's Cuba, at the height of the revolution, and in Miami. Dustjacket praise from Bob Shacochis, Mary Morris and Russell Banks. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-395-860407.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 44266More details Price: $16.00 -
HAVANA WORLD SERIES.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Grove Press, (2003.). First edition - A 'dark novel of intrigue and violence that is rich with the flavor and rhythm of pre-communist Cuba'; set in 1958 when all of Cuba was riveted to the World Series with Mickey Mantle's Yankees playing the Milwaukee Braves. The 3rd novel written in English by this Cuban born author whom Martin Cruz Smith called a 'master of Cuba noir.' (his first was nominated for the Edgar award.)
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy.)
Book ID: 28078More details Price: $20.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). SIGNED first edition - A complex novel which continues the story of Joe Coughlin, during the years of World War II, as he tries to raise his son in peace, and also to navigate the criminal underworld between Bautista's Cuba and Ybor City, Florida. SIGNED on the title page and dated 2015. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with wraparound band.
Book ID: 82544More details Price: $30.00 -
WORLD GONE BY.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2015). First edition - A complex novel which continues the story of Joe Coughlin, during the years of World War II, as he tries to raise his son in peace, and also to navigate the criminal underworld between Bautista's Cuba and Ybor City, Florida. 308 pp.
Condition: Fine in printed white wrappers (the earlier of the two advance issues for this title, preceding the advance reading copy).
Book ID: 73106More details Price: $18.00 -
LOVING CHE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003.). First edition - Intimate portrait of Cuba as seen through the eyes of a young woman from Miami, who discovers her mother's secret of a love affair with Ernesto Che Guevara.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)
Book ID: 28080More details Price: $20.00 -
DRUM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages, some edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 88794More details Price: $30.00 -
A FOUNTAIN, A HOUSE OF STONE: Poems.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1992.). A bilingual edition, in English and Spanish, of this collection of poems by this Cuban poet who is now living in exile in the United States. 109 pp. ISBN: 0-374-157812.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 68453More details Price: $13.50 -
A FOUNTAIN, A HOUSE OF STONE: Poems.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A bilingual edition, in English and Spanish, of this collection of poems by this Cuban poet who is now living in exile in the United States. 109 pp. ISBN: 0-374-157812.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 28597More details Price: $20.00 -
LEGACIES: Selected Poems
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of this Cuban poet's work to be published in the United States. A bilingual edition. 179 pp. ISBN: 0-374-184720.
Condition: Ex-library with markings, but overall tight and clean in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 32721More details Price: $15.00 -
SUSPICION OF RAGE.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Dutton, (2005.). First edition - Mystery featuring Florida attorneys Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana. Author's note. 372 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53896More details Price: $15.00 -
NEW INTERNATIONAL: A Magazine of Marxist Politics and Theory. No. 6, 1987.
Edition: First printing.
New York: New International, 1987. First edition - Features articles on "The Second Assassination of Maurice Bishop" by Larry Clark (the first was his killing in Grenada in 1983, the second assassination was destroying his legacy), "Cuba: A Historic Moment (two speeches by Fidel Castro )", "The Fifty Year Domestic Contra Operation by Larry Seigle, "Land, Labor and the Canadian Revolution" by Michel Dugre, and more. 272 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated teal and white wrappers.
Book ID: 88695More details Price: $21.50 -
REX: A Novel.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Grove Press, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel (and the conclusion to a trilogy) by this highly praised young author, born in Cuba, but who also lived in Russia for twelve years - Translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Author's note. 321 pp. ISBN: 9780--802118790.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (hint of cocking to spine, but appears unread.)
Book ID: 50184More details Price: $20.00 -
EMBRACE THE SERPENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A political thriller set in what was the near future at the time this was written - Castro is dead and the race is on to install a new leader, written by a political insider - . Quayle was the wife of the then vice-president, Dan Quayle, and Northcott is her sister. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-517588226.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)
Book ID: 69067More details Price: $15.00 -
GATHERING RAGE: The Failure of 20th Century Revolutions to Develop a Feminist Agenda.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1992. SIGNED first edition - Studies specifically the revolutions in Cuba and Nicaragua. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page "For.... in struggle". ISBN: 0-85345-8618.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 18718More details Price: $25.00 -
CHE ON MY MIND.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2013. First edition - "An impressionistic look at the life, death, and legacy of Che Guevera by the feminist poet and activist Margaret Randall. . . She arrived in Cuba in 1969, less than two years after Che's death, and lived there until 1980. She became friends with several of Che's family members, friends, and compatriots. In this book she reflects on his relationships with his family and fellow insurgents, including Fidel Castro. She is deeply admiring of Che's integrity and charisma and frank about what she sees as his strategic errors." Photographs, notes, bibliography. 148 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 58196More details Price: $18.00 -
RITA.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in illustrated gold cloth boards (previous owner's name, some soiling to the covers)
Book ID: 69937More details Price: $25.00 -
THE CROWDED HOUR: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Scribner, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a pivotal time in US history - a war of only six months' time that dramatically altered the United States' standing in the world. When America declared war on Spain in 1898, the US Army had just 26,000 men - in desperation the Rough Riders were formed. A diverse group of volunteers, led by Theodore Roosevelt, they helped secure victory in Cuba - and the beginning of American imperialism in the 20th century. Roosevelt called their charge in the Battle of San Juan Hill his 'crowded hour' - a turning point in his life, that led him to the White House. Based on diaries, letters, and memoirs. Maps, photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xii, 355 pp. ISBN: 978-1501143991.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 86403More details Price: $19.50 -
KING BONGO: A Novel of Havana.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set among the glamour, intrigue and corruption of 1950's Havana by this prize-winning writer. ISBN: 0-679-406964.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37064More details Price: $16.00