1866 · New York
by [Cuba]. [Sociedad Republicana de Cuba y Puerto-Rico]
New York: April 7, 1866. About very good.. 24pp. Original printed wrappers, sewn. Spine chipped, moderate edge wear, small hole in top margin of front wrapper, ex-Library of Congress ink stamps to front wrapper and first leaf of text, tiny marginal perforated stamp in bottom margin of first leaf of text and penultimate leaf. A multifaceted issue of this seemingly-unrecorded Cuban nationalist magazine, published during the lead-up to Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, which would become known as the Ten Years' War (1868-78). This issue prints a long letter by the exiled Cuban revolutionary writer and journalist Cirilo Villaverde, together with a long nationalist speech, a three-page "Canto a Cuba" by "Una Habanera" and a four-page poem: "A Cuba" by Chilean writer and diplomat Eduardo de la Barra Lastarria. Villaverde's wife Casanova helped establish La Sociedad Republicana de Cuba y Puerto Rico in 1866, and during the war Villaverde joined the revolutionary junta in exile. We could locate no copies of any issue of this rare U.S. Spanish-language imprint in OCLC or any other regular sources. (Inventory #: 5269)
(203) 479-2507
