[Rarebooks] FS: Fidel Castro INSCRIBED to a Fellow Revolutionary

[Charles Agvent]

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[CASTRO, Fidel] GOMEZ, Maximo. EL VIEJO EDUA. CRONICAS DE GUERRA. 
Havana: Editora del Consejo Nacional de Cultura, 1965. First Edition. 
Original pictorial wraps bound in black morocco-backed gilt-lettered 
dark blue morocco leather; 97 pages. Lengthily INSCRIBED and SIGNED on 
the half-title page by Fidel Castro to Lieutenant Pedro García Peláez 
sending him this book in acknowledgment of his birthday and the wars 
that they have fought in together. The lieutenant would later become 
General Pedro García Pelaez, a top military aide to Castro, the head of 
the Cuban Military Mission in Angola, and the Chief of Combat Readiness. 
In 1959 he was head of the personal escort of Commander in Chief Fidel 
Castro. Though not dated, this was likely inscribed close to 
publication. Books signed by Castro are scarce, and this is a specially 
interesting example. Close to Fine.

Born in the Dominican Republic, Maximo Gomez was Cuba's military 
commander in that country's War of Independence (1895-1898) and a hero 
of the struggle which ended Spanish domination over Cuba. He refused the 
presidential nomination offered to him in 1901, and which he was 
expected to win unopposed, mainly because he always disliked politics, 
and after 40 years of living in Cuba he still felt that, being 
Dominican-born, he should not be the civil leader of Cuba. (#018400)    
     $3,500.00

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