First English-language edition. 8vo., pp.[viii], 422. Dark Green cloth, gilt title to spine, fore-edge untrimmed, green endpapers. Endcaps a little creased, a couple of tiny greyish marks to upper board, edges of text block a little foxed, front paste-down discoloured where it has been in contact with the dust jacket, very good. Second state dust jacket (full stop instead of an exclamation mark after ‘Latin America’ on the front flap), price-clipped, a little worn at head and tail of spine, slightly rubbed particularly to the rear board, still very good overall. Book label of SU Libreria, Carlos G. Liebmann, Quito - Guayaquil. Karl Wilhelm Liebmann (1900-1985) arrived in Ecuador with his family in 1938, having fled the persecution of Jewish people in his native Germany. His changed his name and established a successful publishing business and bookshop, SU Libreria, which continued until his death in 1985.