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Rare childrens “stamp” game issued during the Spanish Civil War. Complete with box. In good condition.
Price: $800.00
Spanish Civil War /History
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Number 1 issue of Yugos y Flechas, February 1950. 10 pages. Worm hole in top margin, not affecting text. Extremely rare.
Price: $190.00
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Rare Auca titled “Auca del noi catala. -Antifexista I huma”. (Auca of the Catalan boy. - Anti-fascist and humane). Anti-fascist propaganda during the Civil War. Quite rare.
Note: An auca is a graphic format popular in Spain and especially in the region of Catalonia around Barcelona. The genre dates at least to the 17th century but was banned during the 18th century before experiencing a renewal during the 19th and later the 20th centuries as a uniquely Catalonian form of expression. It takes the form of a cartoon or a comic strip, typically with 48 blocks of image and text, although some may have less. An auca is generally produced as a single sheet, but occasionally a booklet form is used. The captions tend to have some sort of consistent rhyme to assist with the flow and storytelling. Many times the term “auca” appears in the title, but another term, “aleluya,” is used, apparently interchangeably. Some sources indicate that the aleluya originated in Castile and originally included religious elements that were shed over time. Auca was a very popular form of anti-Nationalist propaganda during the Civil War.
Price: $700.00
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4 issues of El Combatiente del Este. Organo del Comisariado de Guerra del Ejercito del Este. Outside of Spain, only Harvard holds this title in microfilm.
Price: $200.00
SCW 600Postcard of the Humbert sisters and Maria Daurignac in prison in Madrid.
Price: $30.00
Note: Thérèse Humbert (1856–after 1936) was a French female fraudster, who pretended to be an heir of an imaginary American millionaire named Robert Crawford. Humbert was born Thérèse Daurignac, a peasant girl in Aussonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France. As a child, she once convinced her friends to pool their jewelry so that she could fool others into believing she was wealthy. She married Frédéric Humbert, son of the mayor of Toulouse. Soon after, she began to tell a tale that she had received an unusual inheritance.
Humbert claimed that in 1879, when she was in a train, she heard groans from the next compartment. She entered into it by climbing along the outside of the train. There she found a man who was having a heart attack. When she had helped him with her smelling salts, the man told her he was an American millionaire named Robert Henry Crawford, and that he was eternally grateful and would reward her some day. Two years later in 1881, she received a letter stating that Crawford had died and made her beneficiary of his will. The will stated that the Humberts were to look after the family fortune in a safe that should remain sealed until her younger sister Marie was old enough to marry one of Crawford's two nephews, Henry Crawford. With this story, Humbert obtained a huge loan using the supposed inheritance as a collateral. She moved to Paris with her husband and bought an elaborate house in Avenue de la Grande Armée.
Humbert gathered much influence, fame and wealth. Her salon became a center of socializing. Humbert and her associates, other members of the Humbert family, borrowed money against the nonexistent inheritance. They lived in luxury for about 20 years, spending their money on flowers, elaborate dresses and banquets. Eventually they had to borrow more money to cover the previous loans. There were suspicions, but nobody was able to prove the story false. In 1883, Le Matin newspaper published a skeptical article, but Humbert's father-in-law, who at the time was the minister of justice, supported her story. Humbert claimed that the Crawfords had sued him so that she would have to place her part of the inheritance to Crédit Lyonnais bank. After lengthy litigation, during which the two Crawford nephews, Henry and Robert, appeared in court, the court ruled that the locked safe should remain in Humbert's possession.
When Jules Bizat, official for the French bank, asked Humbert how she had invested her money, she claimed that it was in government bonds. Bizat checked and found that it was not the case. Humbert had organized a generous pension plan she had named Rente Viagère to get more money and used it to pay her debts and buy bonds. Eventually the creditors noticed that the supposed amount of the inheritance would never be able to cover all the loans and legal costs. Le Matin demanded that the safe should be opened. In 1901, Humbert's creditors sued her, and the next year the Parisian court gave an order that the fabled safe would be opened to prove the existence of the money. The safe was found nearly empty, containing only a brick and an English halfpenny.
The scandal rocked the French financial world, and thousands of smaller creditors and investors were ruined. The in-laws of the painter Henri Matisse, M. and Mme. Parayre, became scapegoats in the affair. Matisse's mother-in-law, who was the Humbert family's housekeeper, fell under suspicion, and her husband was arrested. Matisse's studio was searched by detectives, and his wife's family found themselves menaced by angry mobs of fraud victims. M. Parayre eventually went on hunger strike in an attempt to clear his name, with Matisse acting in lieu of a lawyer.
The Humberts had already fled the country, but they were arrested in Madrid in December 1902. Thérèse Humbert was tried and sentenced to five years' hard labor. Her two brothers, who had masqueraded as Crawford's nephews, were sentenced to two and three years each. Her husband Frédèric was also sentenced to five years. Her sister Marie, daughter Eve and deceased father-in-law, the justice minister Gustave Humbert, were stated to be victims of the fraud.
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4 issues of Estudios from the civil war. Issues #139, 143, 145, 148. B
Price: $700.00
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Spanish/French satirical postcard: Mussolini Withdraws his real volunteers. Rare. B
Price: $90.00
SCW 597Set of 9 postcards of political murals on the streets of Cuba, Lisbon, Beja, Albernoa and Serpa in Portugal. B
Price: $200.00
Note from Wikipedia: The Socialist Left Movement ( MES ) was a Portuguese party founded in February 1975, a few months after the Revolution of April 25, 1974 . The MES, despite being a small party, brought together many trends that came from a split on the left in the Democratic Electoral Commission (CDE) , student leaders from the 1969 struggles in Coimbra, students and trade unionists. Ideologically to the left of the PS and close to the French Unified Socialist Party (PSU) , the Italian Lotta Continua or the Chilean Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) , he advocated autonomism and councilism . Despite its short political life and poor electoral results, some MES leaders, having later transferred to the Socialist Party , continued with an active presence in Portuguese politics, having held various positions, between Parliament, the Government and the Presidency of the Republic.
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Set of 11/12 propaganda postcards titled Mujeres de la Falange. Cover included. Very rare. B
Price: $1000.00
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Coaling in Spain, by the Compania General de Carbones (founded in 1916). Shows deposits in Malaga, Cadiz, Sevilla and Huelva. Complete with all folding maps. In English. B
Price: $250.00
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Old army notebook of operations in Africa. Melilla 1922, Memories of a soldier off ifni shooters, good condition, 13x9cm. Fully written.
Price: $200.00
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12 page draft report of the creation of the first tabor of the regular Melilla army by Sergeant Mendez Nunez.
Price: $180.00
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Military panoramic view of Melilla, early 20th century. L. Ciriza del. Lit. E. Fernandez. Feijoo 3. Madrid. 44x32cm. At the bottom is the description of the view, the Horcas camp, Venadito ship, Monte gurugú, Neutral Zone, etc. Repaired with acid-free tape, damaged edges not affecting the map proper.
Price: $250.00
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Melilla, Guerra del Rif, Book off surgical operations of a military doctor, is a diary of a military doctor, where he recorded all the surgical operations he carried out, since january 3, 1923 at the Alfonso XIII hospital in Melilla(Rif War), until december 20, 1928 at the military hospital in Madrid. War wounds are reported, name of the wounded, result of surgery(cured, deceased). 392 pages, with a total 1264 interventions. Measures 22x16,5 cms. Very Rare.
Price: $1500.00
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12 issues of a short lived communist party newspaper, Impuls. Extremely rare and not shown in Worldcat. B SOLD
Price: $3500.00
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Complete 6 cut-out set of falange soldiers, including Moroccans. B
Price: $500.00
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Rare Civil War period cut-out of an armored train. B
Price: $120.00
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Complete set of 9 children’s cut-outs supporting the falange, during the Civil War. B
Price: $630.00
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Rare dress up cut-out for a falange child. AH
Price: $250.00
SCW 545Very early Catalan auca telling the story of the 1877-1878 Balkan War. Appears to be critical of Russia. Very rare. Professionally restored. B
Price: $800.00
Note: An auca is a graphic format popular in Spain and especially in the region of Catalonia around Barcelona. The genre dates at least to the 17th century but was banned during the 18th century before experiencing a renewal during the 19th and later the 20th centuries as a uniquely Catalonian form of expression. It takes the form of a cartoon or a comic strip, typically with 48 blocks of image and text, although some may have less. An auca is generally produced as a single sheet, but occasionally a booklet form is used. The captions tend to have some sort of consistent rhyme to assist with the flow and storytelling. Many times the term “auca” appears in the title, but another term, “aleluya,” is used, apparently interchangeably. Some sources indicate that the aleluya originated in Castile and originally included religious elements that were shed over time. Auca was a very popular form of anti-Nationalist propaganda during the Civil War.