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Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First edition. Drawn from the mythic folklore of rural and urban Latin America, a collection of tales, fables, and puzzles. "Walking Words" is a brilliant feat of storytelling in the tradition of Italo Calvino's "Italian Folktale." In it, Eduardo Galeano, author of the acclaimed "Memory of Fire" trilogy, draws on the folklore of the rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that I'd like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian wood cut artist Jose Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world. Borges, Jose Francisco (illustratore).…

First edition New and fine in pictorial gatefold wraps with crisp bright text throughout. Gift quality and handsome all around.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 358pp. First published in Spanish in 1998; this copy, stated: "First American Edition 2000" with '1' in number line. Red boards with black spine and brilliant gilt lettering on spine; blind-stamped illustration of man flying upside down on bottom right front cover: flawless copy. Red dustwrapper not price-clipped ($24.00) with title lettering in glossy yellow across top and down right side of front cover, author name lettering in black at lower left front cover, glossy illustration in black and yellow of same upside-down falling man, as blind-stamped on front book cover. Only flaw, if that, is previous owner name in cursive (with horizontal line drawn through it) at lower right ffep, that of Barbara Starr Wolf (evidently aka Barbara Starr, Pentagon correspondent on CNN, who regularly appears/appeared on the Wolf Blitzer segment). Unread. Jose Guadalupe Posada (illustratore).…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. Nearly 600 vignettes of world and South American history, from prehistory to the 21st century. First American edition (first printing) with full number string. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, no names, no marks; paper lightly tanned with faint stains to fore-edge; minor edge-creasing to jacket. Text clean; [6], 391 pages; index, illustrations. Size: Octavo.…

paperback. Condizione: Fine Condition. Advanced Reading Copy. Advance uncorrected proof, bound in publisher's original wrappers.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. xvi, 240 pages ; 22 cm Contents: Prologue1. Old Debates and New on Globalization and International Trade2. Systemic Crisis and Technological Change: A View from Latin America3. Trends in Industrialization and Foreign Trade4. Globalization, Competitiveness and New Trade Patterns5. The Export-Led Growth Model: the Theory, the Debate, the Evidence6. Central America in the Global Economy7. The Crisis of the Millennium and its Expansion8. Some Philosophical Problems Posed by the Systemic Crisis9. Epilogue: Hypotheses on the Wrong Path Taken.…