Fernando Ortiz
Contrapunteo cubano del tabaco y el azúcar: advertencia de sus contrastes agrarios, económicos, históricos y sociales, su etnografía y su transculturación.
Havana: Jesús Montero, Editor, 1940. Biblioteca de Historia, Filosofía y Sociología, volumen VIII. Jesús Montero, Editor xxiii/475 pages.
Antique volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.25", has been rebound in quarter leather and black cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt-lettered red and green spine labels. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Book has new endpapers and original wrappers are bound in. Small number of textual illustrations are present. Wrappers and pages display ink stamps of the "Biblioteca Municipal de la Habana". Stamped document, entitled "Autorización de exportación," listing this title article authorized for removal is laid in.
This is rare first edition of a landmark study of the tobacco industry and sugar growing in Cuba.