Moats leone b (15 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. The cover has green cloth. 279 pages; 16 plates of b/w photos and other illustrations; 25 chapters; index. The title page/copyright page is missing, so the date of publication is missing. The author wrote 1936 below her signature. The endpapers have a map. The spine strip is faded, its letters have darkened, and some of them are not legible, the top end is frayed, and the bottom edge is a little frayed. The boards' corners are threadbare. The back endpaper's fold is split; the front one is split on each end. Scan se-mailed upon request. Inscribed (to a name) And Sign.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. LAT 040481 First ed. Solid tan cloth hard cover with generally mild wear and soiling, top fore edge with light dust soiling. End papers illustrated with amp of Mexico. Interior mostly clean, with some illustrations. 279pp.

hardback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. hardback, beige cloth lettered red to spine, Cloth lightly shelf soiled, knock to the top leading corner tips. Tightly bound and with a clean and unmarked text, map, portrait frontis, b&w plates, ix + 279pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. First British Edition. Personal memoir of the author's life in Mexico from when she first arrived in Monterey as a young bride of 19 across the next few decades. In 279 pages with Index in rear, black-and-white photographic plates throughout text, including a frontispiece of the author from a 1929 portrait by Diego Rivera. Orig. published in the US in 1932, this is the FIRST BRITISH EDITION, First Printing from 1933, this hardcover has tan cloth-covered boards lettered in red to spine. Condition is VG: very clean & unmarked, but with light tanning & foxing, heavier to outside edges of text block, with scattered spots inside & offsetting to front endpapers. Binding strong but slightly cocked; hinges secure. The unclipped DJ (British price of 10s. 6d. intact to lower front flap) is VG-, with rubbing & slight chipping to extremities, spine fading; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Tanning to ep's. Some light marks and dulling to the spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Good; firm binding; contents very good; a little stained to cover; no dust jacket. Hard Cover George Allen & Unwin 1933 Travel Guides Stories.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. A memoir of Mexico, 278 pages, edite dby Russell Lord.

Hardcover. Edited by Russell Lord. Red cloth. ix, 279pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Mild edgewear. A tight and nice first edition of this memoir by an American woman who spent decades in Mexico and lived through the Mexican Revolution -- with her frontispiece portrait by the great muralist Diego Rivera.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. This is a Very Good + Copy of this hardcover book in a Very Good + Dust-Jacket which has some slight sunning to spine.Not price clipped.There are No previous names or inscriptions present.maps as endpapers.Edited work by Russell Lord.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and with NO leaning to spine.Uncommon title especially in this condition,8vo 279pp First Edition 1st Impression.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. THE DUST JACKET IS WORN AROUND THE EDGES, CORNERS AND SPINE. TEAR OF 3CM ON THE BACK AT THE BOTTOM. THE BINDING IS TIGHT, NAME NEATLY INKED ON FFEP. THE PAGES ARE GENERALLY CLEAN AND CREASE FREE WITH AN UNFINISHED EDGE. THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF AN INTERESTING BOOK.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated first printing, tan cloth with dark blue titles, 8vo, 279 pages, map endpapers, portrait frontispiece, black and white photos throughout; a well kept copy, from the collection of Pulitzer nominated historian Gloria Grace Griffen, whose bookplate is adhered to front pastedown; dust jacket has a few small chips to head and tail of spine and is now protected in mylar. With twenty years of residence in Mexico, Leone B. Moats' memoir is, "a vivid picture of the gay capital at the height of its world prestige under Madero and of the real revolution that followed Zapata.…

8vo. ix, [3], 279, [1] pp. Frontisp., numerous plates. Green publisher's cloth, pictorial map endpapers in green by Kate Lord, gilt lettering & gilt sombrero on front cover (slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of figure in sombrero & serape looking over a plaza in red, yellow & blue (minor shelfwear), NF/NF copy, w/ former ownership signature on endpapers. First edition, 1st printing, stated, of this insightful memoir of life during era of the Mexican Revolution. She writes of Mexico City under Madero, "and of the real revolution that followed Zapata. Huerta with his gals, his copitas, his enduring Indian dignity, all hacked to pieces, at the end, by a Mexican patirot disguised as a surgeon. Villa who loved killing. Carranza, the austere. . . .".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First edition. Edited by Russell Lord. 279pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Slight edgewear and owner intitals on the front free endpaper else near fine in a good only dust jacket with chips, tears, and toning.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st printing, no jacket, average external wear, pages yellowed with some minor blemishes, binding has some cracking, remains serviceable.

First edition. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm), pp [x], 279. A wonderful account of Mexico just before and then during the turbulent years of the Revolution. Mrs. Moats was a well-off American ex-patriot: her husband had a large family inheritance in Mexico. Having lived there some 20 years, in the capital, she seems to have met all the important players, had a wide-ranging upper-class number of acquaintances, and provides an excellent picture of the day to day events as they affected her. Fine copy in a very attractive, near fine dust jacket. …