New York: Grove Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Making use of unprecedented access to Che's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, this exhaustive biography traces the life of this charismatic Communist revolutionary, the son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa.This includes much new material, including information about Guevara's death at the hands of the Bolivian military. Photographs. Notes on sources, bibliography, index. A very heavy, thick book. xv, 814 pp. ISBN: 0-802116000.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2024). SIGNED first edition - The fourth novel by this ‚uban-born award-winning author, best known for his book "The German Girl." Set in the current day, in the author's upper Manhattan neighborhood, this is psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition - akinetopsia or motion blindness - who becomes afraid her neighbor is going to be murdered. SIGNED on the title page and dated in Sept 2023, that is, before publication. Translated by Nick Caistor and Faye Williams, additional translation by Cecilia Molinari. 255 pp.

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.

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.

Amherst: University of Massachutts Press, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comparative study of three major Caribbean novelists: Alejo Carpentier, Wilson Harris, and Edouard Glissant. "Despite differences of language and background, these writers from Cuba, Guyana and Martinique have much in common. Each has written extensively on the shared heritage of the peoples of the Caribbean and each has been influential in redefining the novel in the context of New World culture." Notes, selected bibliography, index. x, 185 pp. ISBN: 0-870237845.

Miami, Florida: Ediciones Universal, (1981). First edition - The final book by this scholar and educator who focused on Afro-Hispanic literature from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere in the Caribbean. Among the topics covered are Los antecedentes de la poesa negra; La poesa negra en el concepto moderno and Clasificacin de la poesa afroantillana. Text in Spanish / en espanol. Bibliografia. 182 pp. ISBN: 0-897292375.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A multi-generational story, which follows one family from China to Cuba in 1857 and to the United States in modern times. INSCRIBED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410562.

New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1965. First edition - A slim brochure which collects three significant articles on this topic: a two part article on 'Marxism and the Negro' and Clifton Berry's 'Reply to Harold Cruse' both originally published in 'The Liberator' in 1964 and George Breitman's five part series on 'Marxism and the Negro Struggle which appeared in August and September 1964 in the weekly newspaper 'The Militant.' 48 pp. Uncommon in the original edition.

New York: Teachers College Press, (1970). First edition - A book by this Trinidadian professor which focuses on Black poetry in the Antilles in the 1920s and 1930s, especially that of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Santo Domingo Notes, xiv, 106 pp.

New York: Dutton, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring the wealthy, irascible but charming septuagenarian, Dearborn V. Pinch, who finds his life once again interrupted by murder. This time his ne'er-do-well son is suspected in the killing of a Cuban official, and so Dearborn finds himself in old Havana. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-525-241221.

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.

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.

Guileford, Connecticut: Lyons Press, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Pulitzer Prize winning author on nature, travel and adventure, from Alaska to Cuba, from the Khyber Pass to Kenya in Africa, originally published in 2004. This is a special reprinted edition, SIGNED by the author on the front free-end paper. 317 pp. ISBN: 978-0762796519.

New York: Berkley, (2006). First edition - Although most U.S. cities in both the North and the South suffered through yellow fever outbreaks for 200 years, the worst in the history of the U.S. was in Memphis Tennessee in 1878, when Memphis became a 'city of corpses.' The federal government to finally determined to find the cause of these debilitating outbreaks. Work that took twenty years but led to one of our greatest successes in medical history: Walter Reed's work in Cuba that finally proved mosquitoes, not "miasma" or filth, brought on a yellow fever season. His work led to later development of a vaccine, the same one still in use today. Notes, selected bibliography. 296 pp.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New York: Ballantine, (2000). SIGNED - In 1897, Hearst newspaper reporter Karl Decker is sent to rescue a young Cuban revolutionary from prison. Inspired by the true story of Evangelina Cisneros, the novel is part romance and part thriller. INSCRIBED on the title page. To -- all best always" 259 pp. plus an interview with the author in the Reading Group Discussion Guide. ISBN: 0-345-441109.

New York: Vintage Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - An anthology described as "the first book to gather Cuban stories, essays, poems and novel excerpts in one volume that summarizes the richness and depth of a great national literature. From the turn of the century to the present, from Havana to Miami, New York, Mexico City, Madrid and beyond, the spirit and diversity of Cuban culture converge in one vibrant literary jam session. Cristina Garca has ingeniously grouped her selections according to 'the music of their sentences' into five sections named for Cuban dance styles." INSCRIBED and signed by Garcia on the title page "To Mary, warm wishes." Introduction by Garcia, Notes on the authors. xxii, 378 pp. ISBN: 0-385721374.

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.

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.

Boston: Little Brown / Back Bay, (2006.). First edition - First novel by this Cuban-American author, the story of the lives of three women from their childhood in a small town in Cuba to their lives in 1960's New Jersey, 282 pp plus a 14 pp reading group guide that includes an interview with Santiago. Issued as a trade paperback original.

New York: Random House, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An Arkady Renko mystery, set in modern Cuba where Russians are no longer welcomed and seen as friends. INSCRIBED on the title page "to --- who taken a vow to read each and every Arkady book, Best wishes." Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award.329 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679-42662-0.