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An Invincible Memory. Translated by the Author
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine price-clipped jacket. "This vast and panoramic novel set in Brazil is once a national epic, a family saga, a rich tapestry of the life of generation upon generation covering nearly four hundred years from the arrival of the Portuguese to the present." 1.2 kg parcel; Octavo 0060156228
Book ID: 23935More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BAY OF ALL SAINTS AND EVERY CONCEIVABLE SIN. Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Viking, 1991. Cloth & boards. Remainder stripe to lower page edges, else fine. Jacket has small soft creases, minute rubbing to spine tips, else fine. First novel of this Brazilian artist, after two books of poetry. A novel of murder, rebellion, and revenge in 17th century Brazil.
Book ID: 9136More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BRAZIL AND THE BRAZILIANS
Edition: First UK edition
London: Methuen, 1915. Red cloth. pp (viii), (308), (31, ads) + 8 plates. Glossary, Index. Spine a bit sunned and darkened; religious library stamp at front (St. Peter's Priory, Rosettenville, S. Africa); page edges yellowed; else a VG clean and unworn copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50685More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
BUSINESS INTEREST GROUPS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRAZIL
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Octavo, red cloth. pp (2),(xvi),377,(5). Fine copy, without jacket, as issued. 0521454859
Book ID: 33213More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
CHILDHOOD. Translated from the Portuguese by Celso de Oliveira and with an Introduction by Ashley Brown
Edition: First UK printing
London: Peter Owen, 1979. Orange boards. Light yellowing and quite minor foxing to the page edges, else fine. Black dust jacket has light rubbing, VG+ otherwise. A Brazilian classic, a novelized memoir of North-East Brazil at the turn of the 20th century. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52322More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DEUX ANNÉES AU BRÉSIL: Ouvrage illustré de 180 vignettes dessinés par E. Riou d’après les croquis de M. Biard
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 50591More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
DIALOGUES OF THE GREAT THINGS OF BRAZIL. (DIALOGOS DAS GRANDEZAS DO BRASIL). Tanslated and Annotated by Frederick Arthur Holden, William F. Harrison, and Dorothy Winters Welker.
Edition: First edition in English
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. Nrown cloth. xiv, 385 pp. Fine copy, no previous owner marks. Beige dust jacket has a very light sticker stain to front panel, light sunning to spine; VG+ otherwise. The first translation into English of the 1618 Portuguese work, "the equivalent for Brazil of the writings of Captain Smith for Virginia." - Frederick Holden Hall. Authorship attributed to Ambrosio Fernandes Brandao. "Evidently written to encourage immigration, the DIALOGUES describe the history of the colonization of northeastern Brazil and the agricultural and mineral wealth of the new land. In addition, the author provides information about every aspect of the land and people of the region: georgraphy, history , flora and fauna, scenery." - jacket. 0826308856
Book ID: 18308More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Exploring and Travelling THREE THOUSAND MILES THROUGH BRAZIL from Rio de Janeiro to Maranhão...
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 46462More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
HOME IS THE SAILOR: the whole truth concerning the redoubtful adventures of Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragao, master mariner. Translated from the Portugues by Harriet de Onis
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Knopf, 1964. Blue cloth. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has minute rubbing to spine tips and outer corners, orange spine panel faintly sunned, else fine. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52299More details Price: USD $39.95 USD $35.96 -
MAD MARIA. Translated by Thomas Colchie (inscribed)
Edition: First US printing
New York: Avon, 1985. Inscribed by Author; Mass market Bard paperback original, the first US edition of this novel set in the Amazon jungle by an acclaimed Brazilian writer. Fine, crisp, uncreased copy, inscribed by the author to a Toronto writerand impresario who brought him to town for a reading "For___, thanks for this Indian summer, I wish you can come next year to Brasil. Marcio Souza, Toronto 1985" and with the inscribee's 1985 ink signature at front. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 38929More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
MIRADOR TREASURE: An Adventure Story
Edition: First Edition
New York: Chelsea House, 1927. Brown linen grain cloth lettered and bordered in gilt. pp [2], (5) - 256, (1, ad). Yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has very small chips to spine ends and outer corners, a few small tears, light darkening to spine and rear panel, internal tape repairs, VG otherwise, attractive. This title not in the list of his novels in Watters p 368. Pollock grew up in Huron County, Ontario, graduated from the University of Toronto. A scarce novel with criminous elements, set in Brazil, especially scarce in dust jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50855More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
PEN, SWORD, CAMISOLE: a fable to kindle a hope. Translated by Helen R. Lane
Edition: First edition in English
Boston: Godine, 1985. Cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket. A novel by the great Brazilian writer. ; Octavo 0879235527
Book ID: 52297More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
PIONEERING IN SOUTH BRAZIL. Three years of forest and prairie life in the Province of Paraná
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 46446More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
QUARUP. Translated from the Portuguese by Barbara Selby
Edition: First US Edition
New York: Knopf, 1970. Yellow cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Brazilian author,; Octavo
Book ID: 52312More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
RED GOLD. The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians
Edition: First Edition
London: Macmillan, 1978. Black boards. pp [xxiv], 677, [3] + plates; maps in text at front, indexed. Fine copy, no owner marks. Red dust jacket has some creases, VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required. 0333128613
Book ID: 27605More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
SERGEANT GETÚLIO
Edition: First UK printing
London: Deutsch, 1980. Black cloth. Fine copy. Jacket has some minor rubbing, soft ripples to front panel, else fine. First published in 1971 (and in 1978 in the US), it won Brazil's highest literary award, the Jabuti Prize for best novel of the year. Contains a 3+ page foreword by Jorge Amado.; Octavo
Book ID: 43193More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
SHOWDOWN. Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Edition: First edition in English
New York: Bantam, 1988. Black cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52298More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
THE BEAUTIFUL EMPIRE
Edition: First printing
London: Macmillan, 1975. Orange boards. Text paper quite yellowed, as usual, else fine. Jacket has quite minor rubbing to outer corners, else fine. A novel of 19th century Brazil.
Book ID: 46713More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE MOON AND TWO MOUNTAINS. The Myths, Ritual and Magic of Brazilian Spiritism.
Edition: First UK edition
London: Souvenir Press, 1966. Blue boards. 238, (2) pp. 6 double-sided photo plates inserted. Foxing to page edges; else fine. Jacket has tiny chip, rubbing to foot of spine; one inch tear to front panel; VG+, bright o/w. A book about the Brazilian version of voodoo, a mixture of Indian, African, and European beliefs, magic, faith healing.
Book ID: 5560More details Price: USD $19.00 USD $17.10 -
THE THREE TRIALS OF MANIREMA. Translated from the Portuguese by Pamela G. Bird
Edition: First UK printing
London: Peter Owen, 1979. Black boards. Fine in fine jacket. A novel by this noted Brazilian author.; Octavo
Book ID: 52325More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96