Guiteras Laura (2 results)
More imagesPublished by The Levytype Company, Philadelphia, 1896
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.Dark and Stormy Night Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: Good+. First English Edition. 442pp + foldout map. Octavo (7 ½" x 5 ?"). In publisher's blue cloth binding with gold lettering. Illustrated with 124 engravings. The first edition in English, revised and edited by Louis Edward Levy. Includes a supplementary Appendix and fold-out map. The work was written on… the eve of the Cuban War of Independence from Spain, soon after the Spanish cancelled a trade pact between the Cubans and the United States. Condition: About Good. Covers slightly dust soiled and showing edgewear. The binding shaken in places, and may be missing a leaf after the title page. Otherwise, the text is clean. ***Author Raimundo Cabrera Bosch (1852-1923) was a leading figure in 19th century Cuba, and its struggle to gain its freedom from Spain. At the age of 17 he was jailed on the Isle of Pines for trying to join revolutionary Cubans in the United States. He studied in Spain and became a lawyer, returning to build a successful practice in Havana. During Cuba's War of Independence (1895-98) he published an independent newspaper, "Cuba y America", from New York City. ** Translator Laura Guiteras was the niece of Eusebio Guiteras (1842-1845), a Cuban writer who wrote of his travels to the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Laura Guiteras includes a short biography of her uncle in this work. *** Scarce. Book.
Published by Levytype Company, Philadelphia, 1896
- First Edition
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First Edition. Philadelphia: Levytype Company, 1896. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; xvi,17-442pp.; sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, color folding map bound in rear, dozens of engravings in text throughout. Cloth sizing rather r…ubbed at margins, spine panel and gilt quite dulled, some offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good, internally clean and sound overall. Biographical history of Spanish colonial Cuba, published just two years before the hostilities broke out between Spain and the United States. Chapters and biographies are divided by industry, including hospitality, journalism, law, literature, and local government.
