Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.
Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, Verso, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has been lightly bumped at the top and bottom of the spine, but is still in very good condition overall. Red paper cover boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book by one of Mexico's leading journalists is a definitive history of the drug cartels. It explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America, and exposes the depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite. Clean copy. Record # 34297
Softcover. Washington, Bureau of the American Republics, 2nd Ed., 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 486 pages. two-color paper covers, sewn binding with about half the paper covering gone from spine. Still a solid copy. Illustrated with b&w drawings, color maps. This is Bulletin No. 11, dated February 1891. Chock-full of information for producers, merchants and manufacturers on tariffs, shipping rates, consular fees, postal rates, etc. to and of South American countries. Paper wrappers a little soiled, previous owner's signature on front.
Hardcover. Stanford, Calif., 1st, December 27, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 362 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket corners. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Spine slightly sun-faded. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453119
Hardcover. London ; New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st U.S., December 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Blue cloth cover, embossed design, gilt lettering, minor wear to edges. Dust jacket has slight wear. Inside is bright and clean with 368 illustrations, 86 in color.
Hardcover. Madison, Wis., University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two small tears to front cover and lower edge of spine. Overall, a tight clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 265 pages, b&w photos. Dust jacket is worn, torn and chipped with light sunning to spine. Internally very good.
Hardcover. US, Rizzoli International Publications, 1st US, 1997-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light warping to cloth covered boards. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Milan , 5Continents, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color and b&w photographs, maps and illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Gilt to all three edges. Gilt decoration to spine and cover. Clean tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Paperback. Boston, Harvard Business School, 1st wraps, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Articles: U.S. Advertising in Latin America, Industrial Structure: the American Pottery Industry, Selling Elegant Glassware, etc. Clean, unmarked copy with only minimal wear to wrappers.
Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, Reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings and photographs. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Record # 609004
Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 251 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription on half title page. Illustrated with full color photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Stein and Day, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 256 pages. Hardcover with well worn dust jacket. Currently covered in plastic protective sleeve, dust jacket has fading, chipping and light soiling. Water damage drop on dust jacket upper left corner front. Internally good except cover boards lightly warped.
Hardcover. Auckland, Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd., 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear, tears to edges. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.
Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, First Edition, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with gilt decoration, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket with light sunfade to edges & spine, now protected with a plastic cover. Faint erase marks of pencil to half title page. Faint foxing top edge. Features black & white drawings from Maya and Mexican codices, considered adaptations of original sources, among other illustrations. Tight binding, sharp corners, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Random Century Group Ltd., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages, b & w and color illustrations, color photos, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, very slight wear to edges of cover, clean, tight copy. Record # 800553
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, b&w plates. Green covers w/ light rubbing to corners. Top edge gilt. Hinges weak. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, reprint, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Tan cloth cover, worn edges and corners, some smudges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Inside is nice and clean. From the American Fights and Fighters Series.
Hardcover. New York, The Dial Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 358 pages, with list of maps. Light dust jacket edge rub, otherwise, very clean, bright and neat copy.
Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Edition, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 456 pages. Hardcover. Taupe boards with gilt titles to green cloth spine. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Borzoi book edition. Tight binding, illustrations in bw, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st thus, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green paper covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century. Author's signature is present on a front end page. Clean copy. Record # 34441