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WATUNNA: An Orinoco Creation Cycle
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: North Point Press, (1980.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "One of the oldest and longest of American creation myths, this oral tale has been gathered in Venezuela over the past 15 years by Marc de Civirieux, one of South America's leading anthropologists." Edited and translated by David Guss. Preface and glossary. Photographs. viii, 195 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-86547-0022.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43369More details Price: $25.00 -
FOREIGN OIL AND THE FREE WORLD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1954.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive study, which looks at all the oil producing areas of the world - Mexico, Venezuala, Russia, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and more, policies such as the 50-50 profit sharing, etc. Includes an extensive statistical appendix. Photographs, map endpapers, index. 400 pp
Condition: Fine in red cloth, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 30425More details Price: $25.00 -
SENOR BUM IN THE JUNGLE: Up the Orinco, Down the Rio Negro and Out the Mighty Amazon.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Robert McBride. 1932. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated by Robert Rotter with 7 glossy plates and numerous small drawings, and with 8 pages of photographs by the author. The idealized drawings form an interesting contrast to the descriptions of being beset by murderous Indians, mosquitos, stuck in the mud, and all the other calamities they dealt with. 319 pp. plus photographs. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in red and gold illustrated boards (bookplate, corners bumped, one small wormhole only affecting the margins, but still sturdy and easily readable)
Book ID: 88895More details Price: $25.00