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  • BARING-GOULD, S., 1834-1924
    A BOOK OF THE PYRANEES. With Twenty-Five Illustrations

    New York: Dutton, 1908. Maroon cloth gilt lettered. pp [10], 309 + one map and 24 photographic plates; indexed. Oct, 1911, ink private owner inscription on front free endpaper; minor rubbing to spine tips, with a nick at head of spine; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Made from UK sheets. UK and US firsts were in 1907, this copy has the half-title leaf on a stub for some reason.; Octavo

    Book ID: 26331
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  • LANGDON-DAVIES, John
    BEHIND THE SPANISH BARRICADES

    Edition: First UK printing

    London: Secker & Warburg. Black cloth. pp xvi, 17-303 + plates. Xmas, 1936, ink gift inscription at front, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. Said to be the first published eye-witness account of the Spanish Civil War. Pro-Republican.

    Book ID: 45063
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  • PÉREZ DE AYALA, (Ramón) [1880-1962].
    BELARMINO AND APOLONIO. Translated from the Spanish and with an Introduction by Murray Baumgarten and Gabriel Berns.

    Edition: First edition in English

    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Black cloth. [2], (xii), (203), [7] pp. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. This modern Spanish classic, the author's masterpiece, was first published in 1921. Often compared with DON QUIXOTE, "it is a philosophical tour de force containing Pérez de Ayala's opinions on life, the human condition, science, art, and religion - all expressed with fine irony and a Cervantesque sense of comedy." - jacket. The author, born in Asturias, served as ambassador to England for the Spanish Republic 1931-36.

    Book ID: 16001
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  • STEWART, Roderick (Norman Bethune)
    BETHUNE. Second edition

    Edition: First US Edition

    Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1979. Green cloth. pp (xiv), 210 + photos on text paper. Bibliography, index. VG+, no owner names. Dust jacket has short tears, generally VG. First published Toronto, 1973, this reprint adds a new author Foreword. Biography of the great Canadian doctor who aided the Republic in the Spanish Civil War and marched with the Red Army in the Sino-Japanese War. He is a great hero in China to this day.

    Book ID: 44273
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  • GULLÉN, Jorge
    CÁNTICO: a selection. Edited by Norman Thomas di Giovanni

    Boston: Little, Brown, c1965. Octavo, card covers. Orange spine a little sunned, light yellowing to rear cover, VG uncreased copy otherwise, no owner names. Spanish author, text in Spanish and English. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

    Book ID: 35925
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  • PEERS, E. Allison
    CATALONIA INFELIX

    Edition: First printing

    London: Methuen, 1937. Black cloth, endpaper maps. pp xxiv, 326. Yellowing and slight foxing to page edges; outer corners of covers bumped, with soft bump to upper outer corners of text throughout; else a VG clean, bright & tight copy, no owner names. dust jacket has some chips near tips of lightly darkened spine; mild rubbing; VG otherwise. A book about the history of Catalonia and its part in the Spanish Civil War, by a noted British authority. ; Octavo

    Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

    Book ID: 26354
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  • FABLED SHORE: From the Pyrennes to Portugal by MACAULAY, Rose
    MACAULAY, Rose
    FABLED SHORE: From the Pyrennes to Portugal

    London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. Second printing, same year as first. Red cloth. pp (xii), 200 + plates. Endpaper maps. Spine lightly sunned, else a VG jacketless copy, no owner names. Travelogue - Mediterranean coast of Spain and Portugal.

    Book ID: 36002
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  • QUINN, R.M.
    FERNANDO GALLEGO AND THE RETABLO OF CIUDAD RODRIGO. Version Espãnola de Renato Rosaldo

    Edition: First Edition

    Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1961. White linen. Colour frontispiece and many b&w reproductions (26 illus. in all). Yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket small chips and tears to front panel, spine lightly yellowed, VG otherwise. ; Quarto; (xii), 119 pages

    Book ID: 54698
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  • Hemingway, Ernest
    FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

    Edition: First printing

    New York: Scribner's, 1940. Oatmeal cloth, brown top page edges. Most of the red in the spine panels rubbed away; page edge yellowed and foxed; a few scattered soil spots in text; bit of darkening to inner hinges with neat repair to rear inner hinge; ink owner name inside front cover; bit of cover soiling; in all just a good, sound jacketless copy. With ink ownership signature of noted Canadian short story writer and novelist Leon Rooke. There were 50K copies of the first printing of Hemingway's famous novel of the Spanish Civil War. ; Octavo

    Book ID: 53033
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  • PIERCE, Frank, editor (Ignasi González Llubera)
    HISPANIC STUDIES IN HONOUR OF I. GONZÁLEZ LLUBERA

    Edition: First Edition

    Oxford: Dolphin Book Company, 1959. Tall octavo, blue cloth. pp 440, (4) + frontis. portrait with tissue guard. Spine lightly sunned, tissue guard loose and creased, private ink name at front, else a VG clean, tight and unworn jacketless copy, no text marks. Dr Llubera became Head of the Department of Spanish in 1920 and in 1926, Musgrave Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at Queen's University, Belfast. This festschrift was published on the occasion of this retirement after 40 years' service.Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

    Book ID: 30322
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  • CHARNON-DEUTSCH, Lou
    HOLD THAT POSE: visual culture in the late-nineteenth-century Spanish periodical

    Edition: First Edition

    University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. Pink cloth. pp (xiv), 178. Index. Many b&w reproductions. Bit of sunning to extreme edges of covers, else fine in fine jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

    Book ID: 55176
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  • Stansky, Peter & William Abrahams
    JOURNEY TO THE FRONTIER: two roads to the Spanish Civil War

    London: Constable, 1994. pp xviii, 430. Index, notes, photos. Fine copy. Examines the lives of the young English poets Julian Bell and John Cornford who died fighting in Spain. ; Octavo 009473450X

    Book ID: 44969
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  • IVASK, Ivar and Juan Marichal, editors (Jorge Guillén)
    LUMINOUS REALITY: the poetry of Jorge Guillén

    Edition: First Edition

    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969. Inscribed by the editor; Blue cloth. pp (xxx), (218). Fine copy. Dust jacket has small tear, nick, spine sunning, VG otherwise. Inscribed by editor Ivask. Original poems by others, personal memoirs, and literary criticism, about the great modern poet of Spain, issued to mark his 75th birthday.; Signed by the editor

    Book ID: 46744
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  • LOVETT, Gabriel H.
    NAPOLEON AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN SPAIN. I. The Challenge to the Old Order. II. The Struggle Without and Within.

    New York University Press, 1965. Ted cloth. (xiv), 414, [4]; (x), (415)-884 pp. Volume II has sunning to the pink top page edges, else a fine pair in VG+ jackets. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Tall octavo

    Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

    Book ID: 12078
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  • ELLIOT, Frances Minto
    OLD COURT LIFE IN SPAIN (2 volumes)

    London: Chapman & Hall, 1893. Two volumes, red and yellow cloth gilt, dark grey endpapers. xii, 345; (viii), 307 pp. Spines lightly darkened, with moderate wear to spine tips; some soiling and cloth bubbling to the yellow cloth covers; armorial bookplate in each v olume; cracked inner hinges neatly repaired; tanning to page edges; else a very good pair, tight in the bindings. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.; Octavo

    Condition: Very Good

    Book ID: 15166
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  • STORER, Edward
    PETER THE CRUEL. The Life of the Notorious Don Pedro of Castille. Together with an Account of his Relations with the Famous Maria de Padilla.

    Edition: First Edition

    London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1911. Red cloth gilt, top edge gilt. pp (x), 355, [8,16 ads] + frontispiece with tissue guard and 16 other plates. Spine sunned; bump to lower fore corner of front cover; yellowing and light foxing to page edges and endpapers; some foxing in text; partial W.H. Smith label on rear pastedown; armorial bookplate of Athelstan Joseph Alexander Keane pasted over another lable at front offset a bit onto facing page; else a good clean, tight and unworn copy. 14th century Spanish king Peter I, King of Castile and Leon.; Octavo

    Condition: Good

    Book ID: 26339
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  • HUGHES, Emmet John
    REPORT FROM SPAIN

    Edition: First UK edition

    London: Latimer House, 1947. Blue cloth. 255 pp + frontispiece portrait (Franco) . Endpaper tanning from binding, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket is a bit used, with rubbing to spine folds, shallow chips and tears to spine tips; long chip and creased tear to top of dust soiled rear panel; good. "Here is a book on Spain written by a trained historian, who served as press attaché at the American Embassy in Madrid from 1942 to 1946. The author is not a propagandist, either Left or Right, seeking to make a case, but an objective investigator bent on establishing facts and evaluating their significance." - jacket. Much on the Spanish Civil War.; Octavo

    Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

    Book ID: 12873
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  • Delicado, Francisco, fl. 1480-1533.
    Retrato de la Loçana andaluza : en lengua espan~ola, muy clarissi´ma, co[m]puesto en Roma ; el qual retrato demuestra lo que en Roma passaua y contiene munchas mas cosas que la Celestina

    Valencia: Galleres de Tipografia Moderna, 1950. 28cm, 15 unstitched gatherings of 8 pp each, laid loose in a cream wrapper printed in red and white. Page edges unopened. Wrapper has light soiling; tape repairs at ends of spine; contents fine, cover VG..Facsimile reprint of the only known copy of the 1st edition, [Venice? 1528?], preserved in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. No 133 of a limited edition of 218 copies printed on specially made "Royal Annam" paper. Woodcut illustrations, text in gothic letter. "Francisco Delicado (or Delgado) (c. 1480 - c. 1535) was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance. Little is known about his life. He was born in Cordoba, Spain and, by uncertain reasons, he…

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    Valencia: Galleres de Tipografia Moderna, 1950. 28cm, 15 unstitched gatherings of 8 pp each, laid loose in a cream wrapper printed in red and white. Page edges unopened. Wrapper has light soiling; tape repairs at ends of spine; contents fine, cover VG..Facsimile reprint of the only known copy of the 1st edition, [Venice? 1528?], preserved in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. No 133 of a limited edition of 218 copies printed on specially made "Royal Annam" paper. Woodcut illustrations, text in gothic letter. "Francisco Delicado (or Delgado) (c. 1480 - c. 1535) was a Spanish writer and editor of the Renaissance. Little is known about his life. He was born in Cordoba, Spain and, by uncertain reasons, he moved to Rome, where he became vicar and Italianized his surname to Delicado. After the sack of Rome, he went to Venice where he wrote his novel Portrait of Lozana: The Lusty Andalusian Woman (El retrato de la Loçana Andaluza, 1528), that continues on the lines of the novel in dialogue exemplified by Celestina. The book is a social and historical portrait of Rome and its dark side in the first years of the 16th century, and one of the first works of the picaresque novel." - Wikipedia. Note.:just over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

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    Book ID: 41697
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  • SEVEN RED SUNDAYS. Translated from the Spanish by Sir Chalmers Mitchell by SENDER, Ramón J.
    SENDER, Ramón J.
    SEVEN RED SUNDAYS. Translated from the Spanish by Sir Chalmers Mitchell

    Edition: First edition in English

    London: Faber, 1936. Red cloth. pp (439). Light sunning, shelf rubbing, to spine tips, else a VG+ clean, bright & tight copy, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has large chip, tears, old tape stains, to rear panel, chips to spine tips, shallow chips, tears to front panel - just fair. The Spanish author's third novel, first one translated into English, a story of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Sender fought with the Republicans, and then settled in the USA.; Octavo

    Book ID: 26748
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  • SOUTHERN SPAIN. Painted by Trevor Haddon by CALVERT, A.F.
    CALVERT, A.F.
    SOUTHERN SPAIN. Painted by Trevor Haddon

    Edition: First Edition

    London: A. & C. Black, 1908. Maroon cloth elaborately decorated in orange and pale green (design by A.A. Turbayne), gilt lettered, top edges gilt. 75 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, folding colour map at rear. Partially cracked rear inner hinge neatly repaired; tanning to endpapers and first and last leaf; very nearly fine otherwise, a nice copy. Inman 76. 1.4 kg parcel. ; Octavo; xii. (212) pages

    Book ID: 55200
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