Slaves of the White Myth: the Psychology of Neocolonialism
Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Hardcover; dustjacket; 223pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy in bright original dustwrapper, Near Fine. More
Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Hardcover; dustjacket; 223pp. Fine, tight, unmarked copy in bright original dustwrapper, Near Fine. More
New York: Orbis Books, 1986. First Paperback Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's original photographic card wraps. 214pp. Light wear to edges and spine ends with a touch of creasing to the upper rear corner, a strong, good looking copy with a little toning of the laminate to the white rear panel..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. Small octavo (ca. 18cm.); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black, grey topstain; xix,[1],107pp. General shelf wear, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown and price rubberstamps to front free endpaper and half title, rear hinge starting to crack but holding;..... More
Cambridge, MA: Center for the Study of Development, [1973]. Single 14" x 8-1/2" sheet folded to make 8 panels. Fine. Published in the Center's series "Perspectives on Development and Social Change." Critical introduction to the work of the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire; the essay formed the introduction to..... More
Bogota: Editorial Kelly, 1961. First Edition. Inscribed by the author in ink on title page: Para [George Genthe?] / Afectionamente / signed, dated in 1967. Octavo (20.5cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; 100pp. Small, faint damp-mark at base of spine; mild toning to extremities; still a tight, Very Good or better..... More
New York: Whittlesey House, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover, titled in gilt; dustjacket; 366pp; frontispiece and 14 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Spine and cover gilt a bit dulled, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced..... More
London: National Peace Council, [1942]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 38pp. About Fine. "Peace Aims Pamphlet," no. 11. Collection of essays promoting independence for colonial countries. The opening essay on economic issues is by Hinden, Secretary of the Fabian Colonial Bureau. More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 51pp. Fine and unmarked. Testimony of Rev. Fred Morris and Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, with numerous appendices. More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., [1917]. New Edition. Octavao (19.25cm.); original green cloth, printed labels mounted to upper cover and spine; xix,[1],316pp. Labels darkened, else Very Good to Near Fine. Later edition of the author's second book, first published in 1887. Travels in the Banda Oriental of South America..... More
Brasília: Ministero de Justiça, 2000. First Edition. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 143pp. Fine and unmarked; an apparently unread and unopened copy. One of 1500 English-language copies printed. More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xv,223pp. Copy of prominent latino scholar, author and educator Roberto Márquez, with his ownership signature on half-title. Tight, Near Fine, unmarked copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), mildly spine-sunned, lightly..... More
[Buenos Aires]: Pimsa / Dialektik, [2011]. First Edition. Limited to 600 copies. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's orange and white pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 255pp.; tables throughout text. Light wear at corners, else Very Good to Near Fine. Text entirely in Spanish. Forms part of the series Colección Confrontaciones. More
Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO), 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 103pp; illus. Mild cover wear, with erasure at upper corner of front wrapper; horizontal tear to one text leaf; Very Good. Well-illustrated propectus for the ILO's Andean Programme, designe to raise living and working standards for indigenous peoples..... More
London: Methuen, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; xv,[1],194pp.; 32 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, map in text, illustrated endpapers printed in red. Some wear to jacket extremities, spine quite toned, else Very Good overall. Isherwood's travel..... More
New York: Bilingual Press / Editorial Bilingüe, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. Card wrappers (softcover); 411pp. Covers mildly rubbed, else a clean, unmarked, Near Fine copy. Collection of essays by leading Chicano scholars including Jorge Huerta, Roberto Cantú, Luis Leal, Rolando Hinojosa, etc. Text in Spanish and English, including a number..... More
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 308pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. Includes bibliography. The entire third section of the book deals with the rise of the Brazilian military in the 20th century. More
Caracas: Caracas Journal, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket printed in red; 247pp. Jacket quite rubbed and worn with a few shallow chips, rear panel quite dust-soiled, textblock a bit shaken else Very Good and Good or better jacket. Collection of articles written between February..... More
Caracas: Caracas Journal, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original boards in pink decorative dust jacket; 256pp. Jacket quite rubbed and worn with a few shallow chips, upper panel top edge and spine quite faded, else Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Collection of articles written between February, 1945, and..... More
New York: Macmillan, 1946. Third printing. Quarto (29cm). Two volumes in red cloth and black and white pictorial dust jackets; vol. I: [ii],[xvi],414pp; vol. II: [34]pp, 306 plates. A sturdy set, with fading at spine ends matching chips to jackets, browning to front endpapers of vol. I front old newspaper..... More
Tempe: Maize Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 304pp. Review copy, with publisher's promotional materials laid in. Fine. No hardcover edition was issued. More
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. First American [and First Separate] Edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 115pp. Some age-darkening to the endpapers, but still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), slightly soiled and edgeworn..... More
San Francisco: La Raza Silkscreen Center, 1978. First Edition. Trade issue, one of 400 copies (issued simultaneously with 40 signed copies). 12mo. Staple-bound card wrappers; [24]pp. Fine, unworn and probably unread copy. A brief collection of poems organized around the theme of "escape from the ghetto" (from the author's introduction)..... More
San Francisco: La Raza Silkscreen Center, 1978. First Edition. Limited issue, no. 4 of 40 signed copies; this copy inscribed to poet Edgar Bowers: "For Edgar Bowers / from a clumsy admirer," signed, undated. 12mo. Staple-bound card wrappers; [24]pp. Fine, unworn copy. A brief collection of poems organized around the..... More
[Ithaca]: New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations / Cornell University, 1967. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue staplebound wrappers, yapp edges; [2],255-300pp. Light wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Industrial Labor Relations Reprint Series no. 234. Essay first published in "Elites in Latin America," edited by..... More
[Sao Paulo]: by the Author, 1982. First Edition. Signed copy, inscribed "to Erika, with love," undated but apparently contemporary. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Clean and tight; Very Good. The well-known Brazilian actress and television presenter (1935-2018) offers her ideas on ecology and conservation. Uncommon, especially signed. Text entirely in..... More