Softcover. London, Earthscan Publications, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. Translated by David St Clair. A diary of daily life in a favela in Sao Paulo, one of the city's slums where the poor live in shacks. Carolina Maria de Jesus describes the daily routine of her life, her hunt for paper and metal to sell so as to buy food for her family. At night she would write her diary on the scraps of paper she collected. Her diary reflected the experience of millions and exposed the injustice of Brazilian society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, b&w photographs. Maroon cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design; spine slightly faded. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners. Foxing to edges. Light soiling to first few pages. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1967, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt title on spine, ship drawing on front cover. 280 pages. A collection of articles and a manuscript written by Julia Louisa Keyes (1828-1877). She was the daughter of novelist Caroline Lee Hentz and wife of Dr. John W. Keyes of Montgomery, Ala. The collection is a typescript of "Our Life in Brazil," a combination of diary, reminiscences, and letter copies, compiled in 1874 by Julia Louisa Hentz Keyes about her experiences in Brazil, 1867-1870. Keyes and her husband emigrated to Brazil after the Civil War. This volume was compiled by Nancy Hamlin Huber on the 100th anniversary of that first voyage. Blank prelim page gone, clean copy. Scarce.

Hardcover. New York, American Subscription Publishing House, 1st, 1859, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Black & white illustrations. Title in gilt on spine. Fading to spine, and along top 1" of front cover.