El Toreo (The Art of Bullfighting): Short Historical Notes
Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled.
50 pp. A history of bullfighting with illustrations.
Spanish
The Bible in Spain; or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
London: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front joint starting, edge wear, surface tears on front paste-down endpaper.
x, 328, 6 pp. Leather spine, marbled boards. Borrow, George Henry (1803–1881), writer and traveller, was born on 5 July 1803 at East Dereham in Norfolk, the son of.....
The Ancient Celts
New York: Oxford, 1997. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket rubbed.
Drawing on a wealth of recent archaeological findings, Cunliffe reveals how this loose band of nomads evolved from migratory barbarians into adroit traders and artists, inhabiting virtually every corner of Europe north of the Po. Beginning in the.....
Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War
University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Trade Paperback.
Still in shrink wrap. Fine.
544 pp. In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain―the start of what would become the Spanish Civil.....
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
608 pp. This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century.....
Hungary and the USSR, 1956-1988: Kadar's Political Leadership (Contributions in Political Science, Number 227)
Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Smudge on rear board and page ridge.
x, 334 pp. In this comprehensive analysis of Hungarian political and economic developments over the past 30 years, Felkay focuses particularly on the role played by the country's long-tenured Communist leader.....
Old Spain and New Spain
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Ink name on first blank.
303 pp. Deep green cloth boards with gilt titles on spine, top edge gilt. Color map of Spain frontispiece. Dedication page dedicated to Edward Everett Hale (American author, historian, Unitarian minister and grand-nephew.....
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Faint edge wear to jacket.
399 pp. An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture, taking a fresh look at the events of 1492 and setting.....
The Story of the Borgias
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Loss to spine head, spine lightly toned.
xi, 345 pp. Red boards. Gilt titles and gilt decor. Top page ridge gilt. The story of the Borgia family has always been one of strangely fascinating interest; but a lurid.....
The Spanish Armadas
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Half inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel. Lightly foxed, jacket and pages faintly toned.
288 pp. 32 pages of color plates and 109 black-and-white illustrations. "A vivid summary is made of the disruptive.....
The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty
Great Britain / Australia: Oneworld, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xiv, 360 pp. One morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, seal hunter and abolitionist Captain Amasa Delano climbed aboard the Tryal, a distressed Spanish slaver. He spent all day on.....
Traveling Light: How to See Spain and Morocco - A Practical Guide for Economical People
New York: Brentano's, 1928. First Edition. Small Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Pencil name on half-title page, pencil underlining and marginalia.
xxi, 287 pp. Orange cloth boards. Includes four fold-out maps. CONTENTS: Foreword; Introduction; Arrival in Spain; Barcelona, Metropolis of Spain; Tarragona and Poblet; Valencia Del Cid; Alicante, Elche.....
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
New York: Mariner Books, 2017. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
xxi, 438 pp. For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist.....
Familiar Spanish Travels
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Ink name on front endpaper.
326 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles on front board and spine, gilt decor of castle on front board, top edge gilt. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. CONTENTS: Autobiographical.....
The Conquistadors
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First American Edition. Large Hardcover.
First American edition. Jacket rubbed, jacket price clipped.
436 pp. This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma. Their confrontation.....
The Peninsular War Atlas
New York: Osprey Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Includes publisher slipcase with ribbon attached. Minor general wear.
384 pp. Colonel Nick Lipscombe, who is based in Spain and is the chairman of the Peninsular War 200 organization, has used his unique perspective to make this new edition.....
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The Bullfight [Bull Fight]
New York: CBS Legacy Collection Book / Macmillan, 1967. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket soiled.
Unpaginated. Black-and-white photographs of bullfights.
The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763
Williamsburg, Virginia / Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture / The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
455 pp. A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and.....
Colossus: A Novel About Goya and a World Gone Mad
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Some small tears and chips to jacket edges, front jacket flap price-clipped. Page ridges foxed, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper.
viii, 563 pp. Francisco Goya. Everything about him was on the grand scale--his genius as an artist.....
A Stranger in Spain
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with small tear. Page ridges foxed.
viii, 376 pp. With photographs and endpaper map. A record of his tour of Spain, intermingling notes on Spanish history, religion, and modern life.
Say That We Saw Spain Die: Literary Consequences of the Spanish Civil War
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Small open tear near jacket spine, front jacket flap price-clipped.
xi, 208 pp. "The poems, memoirs, novels and stories that emerged from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)."
The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada (The Middle Ages Series)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket.
vi, 364 pp. By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian.....
The History of the Reign of the Philip the Second, King of Spain. in Three Volumes.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1858. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Early reprint ('twelfth thousand'). Boards rubbed with minor loss from edges, mainly along spine ends and front joint of first and second volumes, a few pages lightly foxed.
Complete in three volumes. xxxvi, 618; xvii, 610; xiv, 476 pp. Brown blind-stamped.....
The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. 4th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Fourth printing. A fine copy.
xviii, 381 pp. Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence.....
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Pages lightly toned.
xx, 700 pp. 16 pages of illustrations. Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras.....