Bulletin Nine

MEXICO

Item II-1

In the first decades of the twentieth century, as Mexico moved on from the turmoil of the Revolution toward political stability, the country and especially its capital, Mexico City, became the “other Paris,” an inspirational destination that attracted from abroad the more imaginative, adventurous and politically engaged. But Mexico had already played a remarkable role on the world stage, one that even brought it into contact with the three Asian cultural centers, China, India, and Japan, that defined our previous bulletin, materially, by trade and liaisons with other powers, and socially, by planting and preserving its unique blend of cultures beyond its original borders. As New Spain, Mexico had distinguished itself by its special characteristics from the other vice-regal centers established by the Spanish crown at Lima, Bogotá, and Buenos Aires, and it had expanded both physically and in cultural and political influence over centuries. Its maritime connections westward reached to the Philippines, which served as an entrepôt for Indian and Chinese products and wares destined for Acapulco, and it received a Japanese delegation centuries before Perry's black ships forced Japan to open. From the Spanish city built on the ruins of Tenochtitlan Mexico extended its territory and carried its culture northward into the arid Southwest, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific coast. By the eighteenth century, one could already speak of an established New Mexico north of the Rio Grande, and Spanish missions held sway in the fertile valleys of Alta California. With the loss of that vast added territory to the United States through war and annexation, the Mexican tide receded, leaving islands of Mexicanidad that persisted long after. These islands, mostly sparsely populated under Mexican rule, were rejuvenated by later waves of Mexican migration in the early twentieth century. It is fair to see them as analogous to the cultural outposts left behind by Chinese, Indian, and Japanese expansion and recession over the centuries. Territorial aggrandizement was replaced by a new sphere of influence based on culture, as literature and the arts thrived in the atmosphere of the Revolution and Mexican creators transcended national boundaries. This is the story told by the materials in this list.

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Notable items in this list include a photograph inscribed by Rafael Mendoza to the ill-fated Francisco Madero; a signed copy of John Reed's Insurgent Mexico with an evocative provenance; a Diego Rivera bookplate designed for Frances Toor, in her copy of B. Traven's The Carreta; the Mexican version of The Black Book of Nazi Terror; rare Texas-related sheet music; the catalog for Frida Kahlo Rivera's first New York show; inscribed copies of Elizabeth Morrow's The Painted Pig and Rene d'Harnoncourt's Mexicana; portfolios by Miguel Covarrubias and Carlos Mérida; two double-sided Posada broadsides, and a photographic record of a land-reform ceremony, among many other interesting things.

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I. Historical to 1911

Colonial printing

I-1. Castorena, Juan Ignacio de [Castorena Ursúa y Goyeneche, Juan Ignacio María de]. México plausible con la Triumphal demostracion De la Santa Yglesia Metropolitana, en accion de gracias por la victoria del . . . Monarcha Philipo V . . . conseguida en los Campos de Brihuega, y Villaviciosa. México, Herederos de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. 8vo. Top edge shaved close to text, else very good. Followed by "Racones de la lealtad clausulas de la finesa en elogio de las hazañas, que en los diez años del reynado del Chatholico Monarcha Philipo V. ... ha celebrado la Sta. Yglesia Cathedral Metropolitana de México." Disbound. The first work consists of 16 pp. and was composed by various church officials, the second of 40 pp. is credited entirely to Castorena. This collation of the first part, which is definitely complete, differs from those on WorldCat. Some library listings indicate a third part of 14 pp., not present in this copy. A nice example of early Colonial Mexican printing. Juan Ignacio de Castorena was born in Zacatecas; he was a cleric and a supporter of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, who had much trouble with the ecclesiastical authorities. At the time of writing he was canon of the cathedral of Mexico City, and also rector of the University of Mexico. He founded in 1722 the first, albeit short-lived, "newspaper" in Hispanic America, the Gazeta de México y Noticias de Nueva España, and in 1729 was appointed Bishop of Yucatan. $750

I-2. Alcedo, Antonio de Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies. Containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo [his titles].With large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels and from original and authentic information by G.A. Thompson. London, Printed for James Carpenter, 1812-1815. Five volumes, complete. Contemporary full leather. Very good set, front board of vol. V detached. The binder did not completely follow the instructions indicated in the first volume,  placing the author's advertisement, a half-leaf, the first list of subscribers, and, after the final list of Thompson's subscribers,  the original list of Alcedo's subscribers at the front of the fifth volume. The latter, in particular, is called for to be placed at the front of the first volume, but it actually makes more sense to place it as here. The list of Alcedo's subscribers is also integral with the general tables for Spanish America, North America, the West Indies, etc., comprising pp. xiii-xx, which are out of pagination for the fifth volume. These materials are followed by a preface beginning the correct pagination for this volume, starting with p. ix. Donation bookplate in each volume with a Dewey decimal number written on each, no other library markings. A stupendous summation of information about the New World, with Alcedo's text brought up to date as much as possible by Thompson. $950

I-3. Bullock, William. Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico. Containing Remarks on the Present State of New Spain, its Natural Productions, State of Society, Manufactures, Trade, Agriculture and Antiquities, &c. With plates and maps. London, John Murray, 1824. First edition. Contemporary half-leather, recently refurbished and in sparkling condition. Spine tooled overall with a tessellation between the cords. Complete with all plates and both maps. Before this journey, Bullock had already been dealing in curiosities, and on his return opened a show of Mexican antiquities. His trip was made possible by Mexican independence, which opened the borders of the country to former potential enemies of Spain. $1500

Texas Breaks Away

I-4. Holley, Mrs. (Mary Austin Holley). The Brazos Boat Glee. Written by Mrs. Holley. Composed arranged and dedicated to Henry Austen, Esq. by Wilhelm Iucho. New York, Firth and Hall, 1838. Sheet music with lyrics. 4 pp., last page blank. Written on a visit to Galveston in 1831, when Texas was still a part of Mexico. Exceptionally rare. References to it are scant and even erroneous, due to the absence of known copies. After her visit Mary Holley went on to write the first book in English about Texas. Henry Austin, the dedicatee, was Mary's brother and an early Texas migrant. There are two contemporary editions of this song, the present one and another, undated, entitled The Brazos Boat Song, “written composed and dedicated to Mademoiselle Labranche by Mrs. Holley,” that was published in Baltimore by John Cole. That edition is known in a single copy at the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. [With]: Meyrick, Edwin. The Texian Grand March. For the piano-forte. Dedicated to Genl. Sam Houston and his brave companions in arms. New York, Firth and Hall, 1838. Sheet music. Cover page (pp. [1-2 (blank)], and last page of music (p. 7) only, missing two leaves, pp. 3-6. Idealized scene on title page of a wounded and bedridden Sam Houston accepting the sword of Santa Anna in surrender. The above two items are still in situ in two bound volumes of the period assembled for one contemporary owner. Spines are lacking in both. As to the second title, the pages in the albums were numbered by hand, as was the custom of the time, and the two pages present were numbered sequentially, so evidently the missing pair had already been misplaced at the time of binding. The albums contain numerous other pieces of interest and value. Further details on request. $2150

Collision Course

I-5. Carleton, James Henry. The Battle of Buena Vista, with the Operations of the "Army of Occupation" for One Month. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1848. First edition. Cloth with incised decorations, spine richly decorated in gilt, gold eagle emblem on front board. Two folding maps, first one with short tear near point of attachment as usually happens with such maps. A first-hand account; the author was a Captain in the First Regiment of Dragoons. The battle was fought between American forces crossing into  the state of Coahuila from Texas and the Mexican army under the command of Antonio López de Santa Anna. The curiously named Army of Occupation, given that name before the American invasion, apparently had at its objective the temporary occupation of Mexican territory as a bargaining chip. The ambiguous outcome of the battle was overlooked in the jingoistic celebration that followed in the US. $150

I-6. Frost, J(ohn). The Mexican War and Its Warriors: Comprising a Complete History of all the Operations of the American Armies in Mexico, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Most Distinguished Officers in the Regular Army & Volunteer Force. New Haven and Philadelphia, H. Mansfield, 1848. First edition. "illustrated with numerous engravings."  Original cloth with embossed boards and  spine decorated in gilt. Externally a very good copy with minimal wear, short splits at bottom left edge and upper right and left edges of spine. Text very foxed. Nice tinted lithographic frontispiece of the occupation of the Mexican capital by the American army. This book is notable for its numerous full-page portraits of figures on both sides, besides which there are  many other illustrations, both vignettes and full page. One signature a little protruding, but binding firm. Text of treaty of friendship between the United States and Mexico at rear. Last twenty pages or so with circular water stain in upper free corner, including those pages on which the treaty appears. $100

I-7. Conner, Philip Syng Physick.  The Home Squadron under Commodore Conner in the War With Mexico, Being a Synopsis of Its Services. (With an addendum containing Admiral Temple's Memoir of the Landing of Our Army at Vera Cruz in 1847.) n.pl. [Philadelphia?], The author, 1896. First (only) edition. Privately published. Original cloth. 4to, 84 pp.  Includes at rear "Memoir of the Landing of Our Army at Vera Cruz in 1847" by Wm. G. Temple, U.S.N. "With an appendix containing all the written orders issued by General Scott and Commodore Conner." Rare. The landing at Vera Cruz paved the way for the fall of Mexico's capital and the end of the war. The author was the son of Commodore David Conner.  $125

Get out of Mexico!

I-8. Dewing, E. B. (words) and J. P. Webster (music). Get out of Mexico! Song and chorus. Chicago, Lyon & Healy, 1866. Large copy with very wide margins. 6 pp., last page used for advertising of Lyon & Healy's music store. Having gobbled up huge chunks of Mexican territory the United States became protective of the Mexico that remained. The song threatens that, with the distraction of the Civil War over, the United States is poised to enforce the Monroe doctrine and expel Maximilian from Mexico. Amusing cover illustration shows a pygmy Maximilian being put in his place by the towering figure of Uncle Sam. Very scarce. [With] Root, F. W. Poor Carlotta. The last words of Maximilian. Sung by Paulina. Music by F. W. Root. Chicago, Root & Cady, 1867. 5 pp. The denouement, eliciting sympathy for Maximilian's widow: Good condition, ink rubber name stamp in upper left corner of title page. F. W. (Frederic Woodman) Root was a prolific composer of the era. Carlotta, Maximilian's wife and the erstwhile Empress of Mexico, left when their situation deteriorated, to lobby for support in France and the Papal States. Her efforts came to nothing, she became insane, was confined in a madhouse and lived well into the twentieth century. $425

On Board the “City of Merida”

I-9. New York, Havana and Mexican Mail S.S. Line. F. Alexandre & Sons . . . Menu /  Knickerbocker / “City of Merida”. Folded menu card making 4 pp. for Monday, December 4, 1882, filled in by hand. English and Spanish on facing inside pages. Signed in pencil by the ship's captain on the front cover. Nicely engraved, with nautical vignettes on front and rear covers. The firm's founder, François (Francis) Alexandre saw the commercial potential of regular ship service from New York to Gulf ports and began running ships there as early as 1842. In 1872 the  Alexandre firm was given a 10-year contract by the Postmaster General to carry the mails between New York, Cuba, and Mexico. $150

Aztec Curiosities

I-10. Orrin, George W., Benito Nichols, and Edward W. Orrin. Orrin Bros. & Nichols' Guide to the Aztec Fair. Mexico's Past and Present. [cover title]. / Guide to Orrin Bros. & Nichols' Mexican village and Aztec fair: Mexico past and present [title page]. n.pl., Orrin Bros., l886. Original wrappers, illustrated front and back. Pencil note on front wrapper “Aztec curiosities purchased from this fair for [word unclear, calcite?]. Same blue pencil used in interior in a couple of places to mark passages of interest. Very rare; WorldCat shows only a modern reprint. $600

I-11. Olavarria y Ferrari, Enrique de. México. Apuntes de un viaje por los estados de la República Mexicana. Barcelona, A. J. Bastinos, 1898. Colorful wrappers. Good copy, narrow spine and rear hinge repaired. Olavarria (1844-1919) was born in Spain and settled in Mexico in 1865. Except for a period of four years in the 1870s, he resided in Mexico for the rest of his life. He was a journalist and author, and for ten years during the Díaz era was a deputy in the National Congress. $75

Díaz-era Guide

I-12. Campbell, Reau (i.e., Vincent Moreau “Reau” Campbell). Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico. City of Mexico, Sonora News Company, 1899. Presentation copy, inscribed by Campbell on the front free endpaper.  Original decorated cloth. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece portrait of Porfirio Díaz. $150

I-13. Percival, Olive. Mexico City. An idler's note-book. Chicago, Herbert S. Stone, 1901. Decorative pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, other edges left rough. Illustrated with the author's own photographs. In later life Olive Percival, though a salaried worker and self-supporting, formed a notable art collection and kept an intellectual and artistic salon centered on the house she built in Arroyo Seco, California. $60

I-14. Robelo, Cecilio A(gustin).  Nombres geográficos mexicanos del Estado de Veracruz. Estudio critico-etimológico. [With supplementary material by José Miguel Macias.] Cuernavaca (Cuauhnahuac), L. G. Miranda, 1902. First edition. Wrappers. Text in Spanish. 6 + 217 +[1] pp. Portrait of author. Front cover nearly detached, spine missing about an inch of the facing at the bottom. Paper used was inconsistent in acidity, so that about two-thirds of the pages are browned and the rest are quite white. The book traces place names in Veracruz to their origins. Glyphs associated with the place names are given in many cases. Separate from the book but on the same-sized paper are some articles signed by José Miguel Macias, reprinted from the Diario Comercial de Veracruz, taking issue with some of the conclusions of the book. Probably unique with the additional materials. Robelo was a member of the Academia Mexicana de Lengua and eventually was appointed Director of the Museo Nacional de Arquelogía, the predecessor of the National Museum of Anthropology. He was especially known for his dedication to Nahuatl. $100

I-15. Rickards, Constantine George. The Ruins of Mexico. Volume I. London, H. E. Shrimpton, 1910.  Folio. High-quality gravures, three to a page, all tipped in. An important record of archaeological sites, many of which probably were later despoiled. Very good copy, lower tip of front board very mildly bumped. Text pages lightly foxed, none apparent on the tan pages on which the photographs are mounted. Interesting typed note laid in, stating that the author, the British consul in Oaxaca, left when the Díaz regime fell. Slip tipped in announcing the second volume, but no further volumes were published. $250

I-16. Case, Henry A. Views on and of Yucatan, Besides notes upon parts of the state of Campeche and the territory of Quintana Roo. Collected during a long residence in the Peninsula.  Mérida de Yucatán, The author, 1911. Cloth. Profusely illustrated with many photographs of archaeological sites. Frontispiece photograph of the Governor of Yucatan, Enrique Muñoz Aristegui. A very good copy. Very scarce. With an interesting bookplate on the front free pastedown of a skeletal horse and rider “Ex Biblio Ibero-Americano Hamill”[historian Hugh M. Hamill, Jr.?] Yucatan in this era was a major exporter of sisal, attracting foreign interests. Presumably Case, a long-time resident of Mexico, was drawn into that trade. See also the Revista Commercial Mexicana below. $325

II. The Mexican Revolution 1911-1920

Inscribed to Francisco Madero by a revolutionary soldier and future industrialist

II-1. Mendoza Blanco, Rafael. Cabinet-card-size photograph, a gelatin silver print, of the aforementioned, mounted on a card. Mendoza is posed on horseback and holding a saber in his right hand. Inscribed on the verso of the card as follows: “Dedico el presente a mi digno General Señor Francisco I. Madero en testimonio de mi subordinación y respeto; deseándole por su día de días prosperidad y buen éxito el último de sus soldades . . . 11 Octubre 1911 el Teniente Coronel Rafael Mendoza.” The photograph is displayed in a double-sided frame under glass; the mount is bare of ornamentation and the borders of the card are not visible when the frame is closed. Rafael Mendoza Blanco (1884-1966) joined the forces of Pancho Villa as a cavalryman. He fought in battles and became an aide to Villa. An apocryphal tale (“se dice”) relates that Villa requested that he make an artillery piece or cannon that could set off (“quemar”) grenades, a quantity of which had been captured. With his practical combat experience Mendoza went on to found the Productos Mendoza, a leading arms manufacturer for the Mexican Army. Madero became President of Mexico in November, 1911, one month after he was given this photograph, and was murdered along with his vice-president and brother two years later by counter-revolutionary forces. $5000

II-2. Fyfe, Hamilton. The Real Mexico. A study on the spot. New York,  McBride, Nast & Co., 1914. Cloth with dust jacket. Binding of brown cloth, gilt title and figure of a Mexican man stamped in blind on the front board. Third impression, in the same year as the first impression and only several months later. Fine copy in very good dust jacket. Unusual and very scarce jacket features a partially wraparound color photograph of a procession of peasants, possibly fighters, descending a steep street into a plaza. The author is described on the jacket as “special correspondent to the London Times.” Chapter titles include “Bombarded in Monterey,” “General Huerta,” “Where Don Porfirio Failed,” etc. $125

Signed by John Reed

II-3. Reed, John. Insurgent Mexico. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1914. Cloth. Good copy, bit of spine threadbare, front hinge weak. Reed's first journalistic book, drawn from his time spent with the forces of Pancho Villa. Signed and dated on the front free endpaper by Reed, “John Reed / April 8, 1916.” With the oval ink stamp twice of the Young People's Socialist League of Paterson, New Jersey, once below the inscription and again on the dedication page  Paterson was the locale of one of the key American labor struggles of the early twentieth century, the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. As the strike dragged on Reed and others from the Bohemian world centered in Greenwich Village lent their talents to the cause of the workers. A stage pageant enacted by the strikers in June of that year garnered considerable attention to their cause. In the short term the strike failed, but unrest continued and in 1916 manufacturers made concessions to the workers in the face of yet another outburst of militancy. From 1916 to 1919  agitation continued in Paterson and throughout the silk industry, with workers gaining the upper hand in negotiations. Evidently Reed maintained a connection to the workers of Paterson, and perhaps donated this copy for fund-raising purposes. $6250

II-4. Gamio, Manuel. Forjando Patria (Pro-Nacionalismo). México, Librería de Porrúa Hermanos, 1916.  First edition. Recent cloth with original wrappers bound in. Chip in lower right corner of front wrapper filled in professionally with tissue, and a similar repair effected on the rear wrapper. Five plates, illustrating artifacts.  Forjando Patria was first translated into English in 2010. It is regarded as a foundational text in the development of anthropology in Mexico. Scarce in commerce. $200

Business as Usual

II-5. Revista Comercial Mexicana. Vol. 1, nos. 1-7 (June, 1917-December, 1917). New York, Mexican Importing and Exporting Corporation, 1917. Seven issues, apparently comprising all of vol. 1, bound in plain red cloth. Wrappers bound in. Bilingual text, with the preponderance of contributions in Spanish. Covers of issues 5-7 with map of Mexico in color, illustrating the locations of various natural resources and commercial products; contents emphasize the products and political situation of Yucatan. Very rare.  Library holdings are practically nonexistent: Tulane has one issue only, and a library in Germany reports a single 1918 issue (vol. 2, whole no. 8?). The president of the corporation, Francisco Solis Camara, wrote a novel set in New York (Pentapolis, 1921), and the magazine contains some news about New York City. There is a double-page photograph of a banquet honoring Mexican independence day at the Hotel Astor attended by hundreds. $275

II-6. Villaseñor, Roberto. El Separatismo en Yucatán. Novela histórico-política. Mexico, Andres Botas, 1916. Pictorial wrappers with map of Mexico  in which Yucatan is highlighted in red and being seized by a grisly hand. Novel based on the tenure of revolutionary general Salvador Alvarado. Includes documentary materials. Fine copy, pages uncut. $50

II-7. Herrera Frimont, Celestino (selection and prologue). Los Corridos de la Revolución. Grabados en madera de L(eopoldo) Méndez. Pachuca, Hidalgo, Instituto Científico y Literário, 1934. Wrappers. Large thick 8vo, 174 pp. Several pages of music at end printed on rectos only. Edition of 2000 copies. Corridos about Madero, Villa, Obregón, Carranza, Calles, victories of the Mexican Revolution, and so on. $275

III. Accessible Mexico

With the Revolution completed politically if not socially in 1920, Mexico became a beacon for foreign artists and writers. At the same time, Mexican artists participated in the consolidation of the Revolution and internationally in the formation of modernism.

IIIA. Two Colossi  -  Rivera and Covarrubias

These two artists, both imbued with a love of country and coming of age in the years of the Revolution and its aftermath, present nevertheless a striking contrast. Rivera, the elder of the two, excelled in engagement, Covarrubias in dabbling here and there, but also achieving concrete results that widened understanding of Mexico's past and present. Rivera scorned bourgeois society, but at the same time accepted a proposal from the Rockefellers, a relationship that famously didn't end well, and designed covers for Fortune Magazine. Covarrubias, politically aware in Mexico, took to New York, both uptown in Harlem and downtown among the well connected. He maintained a caricaturist's wryness, contributing to the witty society magazine Vanity Fair, but also championed Mexican art and expanded his horizons by turning to the Pacific and venturing to China and Bali.

Rivera

IIIA-R1. Velázquez Andrade, Manuel. Fermin. Libro mexicano de lectura para primer año. Ilustraciones de Diego Rivera. México, D. F., Secretaria de Educación Pública, Departamento de Enseñanza Rural, 1933. 12mo. Original wrappers. Fragile, front cover nearly detached, pages browned. An inexpensively produced schoolbook and hence a rare survival. Later printing, the first printing was in 1927 and issued in boards. México Ilustrado, p. 164. $225

IIIA-R2. Beals, Carleton. Mexican Maze. Illustrations by Diego Rivera. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, (1931). Very good copy in very good dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Also laid in is a leaflet printed on both sides, one side of which is devoted to the book and the other to a seminar to be held in Mexico with guest contributors under the auspices of The Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America. $250

IIIA-R3. Chase, Stuart. Mexico. A study of two Americas. Written in collaboration with Marian Tyler. Illustrated by Diego Rivera. London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1932). First UK edition. Printed in the US. Colorful publisher's cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Color frontispiece and full-page black-and-white illustrations by Rivera. Map endpapers. Based on a five-months' trip to Mexico, avoiding the capital for the most part. As someone who had written on and experienced the machine age in America, Chase was particularly interested in the functional handicraft economy of Mexican villages. $65

IIIA-R4. Rivera, Diego and Bertram D. Wolfe. Portrait of Mexico. New York, Covici Friede, 1937. Very good copy. Largely consists of plates. Lacks dust jacket. $60

IIB-R5. (Rivera) Traven, B. The Carreta. London, Chatto & Windus, (1938). First edition in English. Translated from the German by Basil Creighton.  Blue cloth. First issue binding with gilt spine stamping. Photographic frontispiece. Good copy, gilt dull, small tear at crest of spine. Frances Toor's copy, with her large ex libris designed by Diego Rivera on the front pastedown endpaper.  The bookplate is printed in sepia on orange paper. Brochure laid in, Diego Rivera (Ex Libris Mexicano, Núm. 1, Col. Roma, Ciudad de México, Ediciones Galera, 1996), with a discussion of this bookplate. Rivera designed only three bookplates, this being the only Mexican one. Toor also used the figurative part as an emblem in her publications. $1675

IIIA-R6. (Rivera) Fortune Magazine. October, 1938. Wrappers, folio. Cover by Diego Rivera. Major article on “Mexico in Revolution,” pp. 74-86, continuing on pp. 124 ff., with further art by Rivera. Good condition, bottom of front cover little abraded. $60

IIIA-R7. (Postcards) Group of five vintage postcards of subjects from Rivera frescoes, ca 1930-1940. Four from the Palacio de Cortés, Cuernavaca, and one from the Palacio Nacional de México (Cortés and Las Casas). Captions in Spanish and English. All published by Tischgrund, Mexico City. Not used postally. $100

IIIA-R8. Carlos Chávez, Fernando Gamboa, et al. Diego Rivera: 50 Años de Labor Artística. Exposición de Homenaje Nacional. Museo Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Ciudad de México, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1951. Folio. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy with slight wear to bottom of spine, dust jacket with general small edge tears, protected in old glassine. Front matter by Carlos Chávez and Fernando Gamboa. Contributions by Frida Kahlo, Walter Pach, Juan O'Gorman and others. Catalog and bibliography by Susana Gamboa. $150 

Covarrubias

IIIA-C1. (Covarrubias) Huston, John. Frankie and Johnny. New York, Boni, 1930. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with a small chip at the top of the back panel. Jacket and illustrations by Covarrubias. The dust jacket illustration finds a spiritual commonality between this American folk ballad and Mexican popular cultural pictorial themes of death and chance. First book of the future film director, whose credits include The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  $350

IIIA-C2. (Covarrubias) Canot, Theodore, Capt., as told to Brantz Mayer. The Adventures of an African Slaver. Being a true account of the life of Captain Theodore Canot, trader in gold, ivory & slaves on the coast of Guinea. His own story, as told to Brantz Mayer. Newly edited and introduced by Malcolm Cowley.  New York, Albert and Charles Boni, 1928. First edition, first printing (no mention of later printings). Thick large 8vo. Cloth and boards. Illustrations and cover design by Covarrubias. About fine copy, same splendid design on the front and rear boards. Endpapers echo the famous image of human cargo packed tightly in the hold of a slave ship. Brantz Mayer wrote extensively on Mexico and Mexican history. $250

IIIA-C3. Another copy of the above. Third printing. Very good copy in extremely scarce dust jacket that also states third printing. Jacket missing bottom inch or so of spine panel. $375

IIIA-C4. (Covarrubias) Theatre Arts Monthly. August, 1936. The Theatre in Bali. Text and drawings by Miguel Covarrubias. Photographs by Rosa Covarrubias. Original wrappers. Entire issue devoted to the Covarrubias' reportage. Very good condition. $75

IIIA-C5. (Covarrubias) Miguel Covarrubias Finds an Artist's Idyl in Bali. Two leaves neatly removed from Life Magazine, issue for September 27, 1937, with text and two color reproductions, one full-page. The smaller of the two reproductions is captioned “The slender bodies of Balinese women,” says Covarrubias, “are as much a part of the landscape as the palms and breadfruit trees.” The other is captioned “Every night is festival night in Bali.” The full-page reproduction is particularly striking, showing Covarrubias' art to full advantage. Accompanying text notes that Island of Bali will be published in November by Alfred A. Knopf. $25

IIIA-C6. Covarrubias, Miguel. Island of Bali. With an album of photographs by Rosa Covarrubias. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First and second printings before publication (stated). Very good copy, lacking dust jacket. Inscribed “For Leonard Tivol / Miguel Covarrubias.” Tivol was a San Francisco architect. Based on the date of publication, they likely met when Covarrubias was working on his Pageant of the Pacific. $200

IIIA-C7. (Covarrubias) Theatre Arts Monthly. August, 1938. Theatre in Mexico. Miguel Covarrubias, Special Editor. Original wrappers. Very good condition. Articles by Covarrubias, Adolfo Best-Maugard, Carlos Mérida, Edith J. R. Isaacs,  Rodolfo Usigli, Salvador Novo, Luis Sandi, and Xavier Villaurrutia, often bemoaning the state of theater in Mexico. Numerous illustrations, photographic and otherwise, and small illustrations in text. $75

IIIA-C8. Another copy of the above available in publisher's binder with ten other issues. Inquire for further information on complete contents. $150

IIIA-C9. Covarrubias, Miguel. Pageant of the Pacific. San Francisco, Pacific House, 1940. Complete set of six maps with descriptive pamphlet, in giant tapa-cloth-pattern portfolio with wooden dowel. All in very good condition, sides of portfolio little warped as usual, one small area of front panel rubbed. Original natural-fiber cord present, a little short due to fraying, not threaded through the holes in the top board. $1500

III-C10. (Covarrubias) Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. Veinte Siglos de Arte Mexicano. New York, The Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with the Mexican Government, 1940. Cloth with dust wrapper. Map of pre-Spanish cultures on front free endpaper by Covarrubias, who also contributed the section on “Modern Art – Arte Moderna” (pp. 137-182). $50

III-C11. Covarrubias, Miguel. Mexico South. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, n.d. [1946].  Prospectus. Long sheet folded into 6 pp. on three panels. Biography of Covarrubias. Color Illustrations and a sample page from the book. Very scarce. $60

IIIA-C12. Covarrubias, Miguel. Mexico South. The Isthmus of Tehuantepec. London, Cassell, 1946. First UK edition. Good copy. Folding map by Covarrubias as frontispiece. Photographs by the author, Rosa Covarrubias, and others. Lacks dust jacket. This edition differs from the American edition in having an extensive section of photographic plates placed in a special section at the rear of the book. $65

IIIA-C13. (Covarrubias)  Linton, Ralph and Paul S. Wingert, in collaboration with Rene d'Harnoncourt. Arts of the South Seas. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1946. Wrappers. 8vo. Exhibition catalog. Color illustrations by Covarrubias. Excellent in original mailing carton with MOMA label, practically as new. $65

IIIA-C14. (Covarrubias) Radio . . . most versatile entertainer of them all [on left page]. Take Friday, for instance.[on right page]. Page proofs, intended to form a two-page spread, for CBS Radio. Right-hand column with the Friday schedule for a typical broadcasting day on the CBS Radio Network. Small folios. Two sets of the same proofs, one separated, the other with the two pages joined together. Stamps on blank side of right-hand page of Collier's Magazine, with the target  issue date of January 2, 1952, proofs dated December 10, 1951. Folded in two horizontally, other slight wear. Likely unique. $85

IIIA-C15. (Covarrubias) Sanderson, Ivan T. John and Juan in the Jungle. With 23 original paintings in full color by Miguel Covarrubias. New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, (1953).  Pictorial binding; wraparound design by Covarrubias is a composite of some of the fauna and flora depicted in the book. Dust jacket only good, with general wear and a fair-sized chip in the bottom edge of the front panel. As the jacket simply reproduces the binding, no information is lost.  Covarrubias reveals himself to be a master of natural-historical illustration. $45

IIIB. Insiders and Outsiders

IIIB-1. (Emilio Amero) Amero. New York, Julien Levy, 1935. Exhibition catalog  in form of a folded card. Vertical format, card flips up to make four page surfaces, cover page with image, upper of two internal pages with an essay by Jean Charlot, lower page with 26 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints listed, as well as unspecified photographs and photograms. Back cover blank save for gallery address. Amero (1901-1976) was born in Mexico, and in his artistic career moved between there and the United States. Very rare. $275

IIIB-2. Azuela, Mariano. The Under Dogs. A novel of the Mexican Revolution. New York, Brentano's, 1929. Translated by E. Munguia, Jr. Illustrated by José Clemente Orozco. Preface by Carleton Beals. Blue cloth lettered in black. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Very scarce thus. First translation into English of Azuela's Los de abajo. The print run was 3000 copies. Enrique Munguia was a Mexican diplomat stationed in Washington, DC, It has been suggested that the translation was due in large part to Anita Brenner; however, the fact hat she criticized it in a contemporary review speaks against that. $1500

IIB-3. Best-Maugard, Adolfo. The Simplified Human Figure. Intuitional expression. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. First edition, stated. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Drawing tool in glassine envelope mounted to back pastedown end paper, as issued. Latter in fine condition, unused. $150

IIIB-4. Bevilacqua Wuthenau, Raquel. Fiesta en Tasco. Traducción libre por George Godoy. Mexico, Editorial Fotocolor, 1942. Padded wrappers with dust wrapper over. Good copy, 1944 date written in pencil on dedication page. Hand-colored illustrations. Laid in is the rare “advertencia,” a wraparound cinch, but not used as such. Accompanied by two Feliz Navidad y Año Nuevo cards with colored woodcuts of Taxco scenes, one flat and one folded to 4 pp., signed with her initials R. W. in the plate, and a third card, a Mexican couple built up in felt, from the same person's mementos.  $150

Anita Brenner

IIIB-5. Brenner, Anita. Idols behind Altars. New York, Payson & Clarke, 1929. First edition. Photographs by Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. Very good condition. The three-word title is a brilliant summation of Mexican history. $300

IIIB-6. Brenner, Anita.  Idols behind Altars. New York, Harcourt Brace, (1929 [but later]). Reprint, using the first edition plates. Fine copy in very good dust jacket with a little wear to the top of the spine panel. Dust jacket by Jean Charlot follows that of the first edition. $450

IIIB-7. Brenner, Anita. Your Mexican Holiday. A modern guide.  New York, G. P. Putnam, 1932. First edition. Maps and illustrations by Carlos Mérida. Lacks dust jacket. Sheaf of photographic plates at rear. Lightly annotated in pencil here and there with valuable corrections and updated information. $100

IIIB-8. Charlot, Jean. Art from the Mayans to Disney. First edition. New York and London, Sheed and Ward, 1939. Fine in price-clipped dust wrapper which is otherwise near fine with only a couple of trifling nicks. Famed documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha's copy with his signature on the front free endpaper. A collection of essays mainly on Mayan and Mexican art, including pieces on Rivera and Posada, on Edward Weston, Picasso, Franklin Watkins, Henrietta Shore, Ben Shahn, Cubism, Surrealism, etc. and finally "From Altamira to Disney," with an illustration from "Snow White" of Dopey. Illustrations printed hors-texte on separate pages. The essay on Disney puts his work in the context of conveying motion and action throughout the history of art; Mayan painting also used a kind of animation to convey action. $100

IIIB-9. d'Harnoncourt, Rene. Mexicana. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition (stated). Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket. Very good copy in good dust jacket with gaps in the spine panel and some chips on the side panels. Unpriced dust jacket, with interesting pencil note where the book price normally is "$3.00 US y /$12.50 mexican." With an extensive four-line lettered inscription in Spanish by the author to Sra Catharine French and a sketch of a fisherman in a boat, signed by the author. $500

IIIB-10. (Francisco Díaz de León) Toussaint, Manuel. Oaxaca. Ilustrada con 16 camafeos en madera originales de Díaz de León. México, Editorial Cultura, 1926. First edition. Small 12mo, wrappers. Illustrated with tinted woodcuts, termed “cameos” in the title. Díaz de León was a central figure in the development of Mexican printmaking.  México Ilustrado, pp. 314-317, for this and the next item. $675

IIIB-11. (Francisco Díaz de León) Silva y Aceves, Mariano. Campanitas de Plata. Libro de niño. 54 maderas originales de Díaz de León. First edition. Wrappers. Very good copy. Splendidly printed darkly inked woodcuts. Ciudad de México, Editorial Cultura, 1925. No copies found in WorldCat. $1500

IIIB-12. (George O. Hart) Cahill, Holger (Ed.). George O. “Pop” Hart. Twenty-four Selections from His Work. New York, The Downtown Gallery, 1928. First edition. Fine in fresh dust jacket. The illustrations in the book include Mexican subjects. Hart, a prolific artist, made a sketching trip to Orizaba and Oaxaca in 1926. As a result he was the subject of an article in the English-language magazine Mexican Life in 1928, where he was called a “Yankee Gauguin.”  In New York, he contributed illustrations to José Juan Tablada's La Feria, published there in 1928 by the firm of F. Mayans. $35

IIIB-13.  (Frida Kahlo) Bréton, André. Frida Kahlo (Frida Rivera). New York, Julien Levy Gallery, n.d. [1938]. Single sheet folded twice to make four pages. Rare. The first exhibition devoted to Frida Kahlo. Inside pages with essay by Bréton. Back page with list of 25 paintings. Printed on yellow paper. Two additional extraneous light fold marks. $2500

IIIB-14. Lawrence, D. H. The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl). New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy in very good dust jacket, first owner's name in script at top of title page. Dust jacket signed in the design “Brett,” i.e., Dorothy Brett. $750

IIIB-15. Magdaleno, Mauricio. Sunburst. New York, The Viking Press, 1944. Translated from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Valenti Angelo. $35

IIIB-16. Mérida, Carlos. Carnival in Mexico. México, D.F., Talleres Gráficos de la Nación for the artist, 1940. Folio. Portfolio with cloth loops connecting front and back panels and two ties on free side, containing a bifolium introduction and ten lithographic plates. No. 374 of an edition of 500 copies. Upper tie broken, circular spot 3.5 cm across in lower part of portfolio cover, small imperfection in back cover, contents very good. Signed on the colophon page by Mérida and all ten plates also signed by him. The plates represent costumed and masked carnival figures from different parts of Mexico. Exemplifying the attractive force of the emerging Mexican style Mérida began his artistic career in his native Guatemala, met Diego Rivera in Paris, and was drawn to Mexico by the exciting muralist movement. $4500

Orozco

IIIB-17. (Orozco) Toor, Frances (Ed.) Orozco's Frescoes in Guadalajara. Critical notes by Carlos Mérida. Photographs by Juan Arauz Lomeli. Mexico, Frances Toor Studios, 1940. Wrappers. Good copy with slight wear to the edges of the wrappers. Advertisement for publications of Frances Toor at rear. $100

IIIB-18. (Orozco) José Clemente Orozco. Pinturas Murales en La Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco. México, Imprenta Mundial, 1937.Wrappers. Octavo, unpaginated (48 pp.) About very good, rear wrapper spotted, small chip off upper left corner of rear wrapper, 1938 ownership inscription lightly written in pencil at upper right of front wrapper, upper right corner slightly bumped. Two-page preface by Luis Cardoza y Aragón and four pages of description, the rest being photographs. Photographs by Ignacio Gomez Gallardo, Juan Arauz Lomeli, and Luis Castañeda. $65

IIIB-19. Orozco “Explains.” New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1940. Wrappers. For the exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art Orozco created six fresco panels at the Museum. Photographs by Eliot Elisofon. $60

IIIB-20. (Orozco) Three vintage postcards of details of Orozco murals, two of the Edificio del Corte Supremo, with the subjects Los Malvados (Crooks) and La Justicia (Justice), the third captioned Angel de la bóveda del Coro (Angel in the vault of the Choir) at the Iglesia del Hospital de Jesús. Not used postally. $75

IIIB-21. Parsons, Elsie Clews. Mitla Town of the Souls and Other Zapoteco-speaking Pueblos of Oaxaca, Mexico. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1936. First edition. Very good copy, presumably contemporary “please return to” ownership inscription on front pastedown endpaper from a Palo Alto woman. $125

IIIB-22. Porter, Katherine Anne. “Where Presidents Have No Friends.” Drawings by Winold Reiss. In: The Century Magazine, July, 1922, pp. 373-384. About the assassination of Carranza, as told to her, and the current situation in Mexico. Porter first went there in 1920 to take part in politics, but did not stay long. Three full-page drawings by Winold Reiss, consisting of a market scene and two portraits. Good condition in original wrappers, bumped in lower right corner. $50

IIIB-23. (Katherine Anne Porter) Lizardi, José Joaquín Fernández de The Itching Parrot. Garden City, Doubleday Doran, 1942. Translated by Katherine Anne Porter. Dust jacket by Jean Charlot. Fine copy in like dust jacket, an exceptional copy. First translation into English of this classic. $450

Posada

IIIB-24. Posada, José Guadalupe. Calavera de los bravos Ku Kus Klanes. / Calaveras en montón, al precio de un decimal. Como nunca se habrá visto, en toda esta capital.  México, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. First or early printing, with the street address of Vanegas given as Calle de Santa Teresa; cf. British Museum copy, with changed street name. Double-sided broadside. Besides its usual targets the Klan was also hostile to Mexicans. $875

IIIB-25. Posada. Las bicicletas. / Calavera de los patinadores. México, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. First or early printing, with Vanegas' address as Calle de Santa Teresa. Trimmed on the bottom up to the frame. Double-sided broadside. Every time I have to dodge a bicycle riding on the sidewalk or coming the wrong way against the light into a crosswalk I think of this image and say to myself “just wait.” $600

IIIB-26. (Posada) Gamboa, Fernando (text), Carl O. Schniewind and Hugh L. Edwards (catalogue). Posada Printmaker to the Mexican People. An exhibition lent by the Dirección General de Educación Estética, Mexico. Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944. Wrappers, 60 pp., 66 plates on 33 pp. Posada's illustrations are reduced to line drawings in reproduction. Fabulous tinted endpapers. Very good copy, ends of spine slightly chipped, spine rubbed. $50

IIIB-27. (Posada) Life & Work of the Engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada. Artes de México, 1958, vol. 4, year 6, no. 21. Entire issue devoted to Posada. In English. Texts by Diego Rivera, Fernando Gamboa, and Jean Charlot. Wrappers, folio. Wrappers in only fair condition, rear wrapper detached, spine tattered. Much care went into the illustrations, which are blown up to a size that allows Posada's drawing technique to be appreciated.  Two broadsides are reproduced as foldouts on tinted paper.  $50

IIIB-28. (Pepe Romero) Steinbeck, John. Pepe Romero. New York, Hammer Galleries, n. d. [1957?] Exhibition catalog. Very good condition. Single large sheet printed on one side and folded twice as issued. One panel consists of a five-paragraph appreciation of the art of Pepe Romero by John Steinbeck. Extremely rare. With a letter of thanks written in English from Romero to Steinbeck, dated December 17, 1956.  José (Pepe) Romero Gaviño, a native of Oaxaca from an important family with  old connections to the United States, was a novelist and journalist before turning to painting. Provenance: Estate of Elaine Steinbeck, hence probably Steinbeck's own and only copy. Further information on request. $1250

IIIB-29. (José Sabogal) Beals, Carleton. Fire on the Andes. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1934. Second impression (stated). Frontispiece, 47 illustrations, end papers and dust jacket by José Sabogal. Sabogal, founder and promoter of an indigenous style of Peruvian art, visited Mexico in the early 1920s and met with counterparts Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. $40

IIIB-30. Spratling, William. Little Mexico. With portraits and illustrations by the author. New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1932). Foreword by Diego Rivera. Very good copy. Back endpaper browned from much later (1967) page from the New York Times with an article on Spratling folded and left in book. Dust jacket lacking spine, front inside panel detached from front panel. Remains of jacket were encased in glassine and the foldovers taped, which left faint tape ghosts on the front free endpaper. Inscribed by the author on the half-title “To Abe Friedman / recuerdo de Little Mexico y de su amigo Wm Spratling / Taxco 10 Marzo 1933.” The inscription is written around the book title. Abe Friedman was a New York entertainment lawyer with many distinguished clients. $250

IIIB-31. Steinbeck, John. The Forgotten Village. With 136 photographs from the film of the same name by Rosa Harvan Kline and Alexander Hackensmid. New York, Viking, (1941). Story and script by Steinbeck, directed and produced by Herbert Kline, codirector and director of photography Alexander Hackensmid, music by Hanns Eisler. Very good copy in good dust jacket. Gutters of book darkened, jacket shallowly chipped at bottom of spine panel. Inspirational story of the transformation of a young villager to a health crusader. $50

IIIB-32. (The Maya Society) The Boturini-Veytia Tarascan Calendars in Facsimile. [Text brochure only.] Baltimore, The Maya Society, 1935. Publication no. 15, “A Planetary Calendar en Lengua Nahuatal del año 1639.” Two loose folded leaves, one inside the other, making 8 pp., of which the final 3 pp. are text. The Maya Society was a group of interested scholars. $60

B. Traven

IIIB-33. Traven, B. Der Schatz der Sierra Madre. Berlin, Verlag der Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1927. First edition, first issue. Fine copy. The design is credited to C. (Carl Curt) Reibetantz (1891-1929). Reibetantz, a graphic artist and typographer, established a signature look in keeping with Traven's mood with the binding and the use of glyph-like elements in the initial capitals of chapters. These capitals were reused in Die weisse Rose. $300

IIIB-34. Traven, B. Die weisse Rose. Berlin, Verlag der Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1929. First edition. Orig. ochre cloth, spine decorated with Aztec motifs. Good copy with slight fraying to spine extremities. Text block in very good condition, endpapers of lower paper quality than text block, browned, front free endpaper detached. Design (Ausstattung) credited to Rudolf Dörwald, but following the use of the Aztec elements in Die Schatz der Sierra Madre in the spine decoration and glyph-like initials. $40

IIIB-35. Traven, B. Der Karren. Berlin,  Büchergilde Gutenberg, 1931. First edition. Light-blue cloth. One photographic illustration. Fine copy, unworn and unfaded. $50

IIIB-36. Traven, B. Ein General Kommt aus der Dschungel. Amsterdam, Allert de Lange, 1940. First edition in German. Tan linen. Very good, clean copy. $50

IIIB-37. Farber, David (compiler).  A Catalogue of the Collection of B. Traven's Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Austin, University of Texas at Austin, (1967). Fine copy. Edition of 500 copies. Double-page centerfold illustrating some of the translations in the collection. $40

IIIB-38. Vargas Vila, José Maria. Némesis. Paris, Marzo de 1928. Single issue of this irregular periodical entirely written by Vargas Vila. Wrappers, 40 pp. Good copy, tip of upper right corner of front wrapper broken off. Passing references to Mexico, which the peripatetic Colombian author visited in 1924, and Mexican politics. Place of publication varied with the author's residence of the moment; at least one number was published in Mexico. $100

Exiles

Even in the nineteenth century Mexico became a refuge, as Black Americans fleeing slavery in Texas and elsewhere crossed the border into free territory. Further infusions came with refugees fleeing Europe after the defeat of the Spanish Republic, the spread of Nazism and Nazi influence, and the fall of most of free Europe. Mexico under President Lázaro Cárdenas also famously opened its doors to Leon Trotsky and his family and entourage in 1936. As a guest of the Mexican state he did not meddle in its politics, aside from writing one article welcoming the nationalization of  the petroleum industry. 

IIIB-39. Goldschmidt, Alfons. On Economics You Are Wrong. New York, Social Economics Laboratory, 1936. Wrappers. S.E.L. Publications, No. 1. Small 8vo. Good copy, spine missing bottom few cm, tip of front wrapper and first couple of pages chipped. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Goldschmidt, a German academic and journalist, was well acquainted with Latin America and specifically with Mexico. He taught there in the 1920s, and in 1927 published a travel book about Mexico, Auf den Spuren der Aztecan. After the Nazi takeover Goldschmidt left Germany, and in 1939 took work in Mexico as an advisor to the government. He died there the following year. While in Mexico, he assisted in the immigration of antifascist refugees. $75

IIIB-40. Antoniorrobles (Antonio Joaquín Robles Soler). Llevan a la Luna un Día Hasta la Comisaría. Cuentos. n.pl. [Barcelona], Estrella, Editorial por la Juventud, n.d. [1937]. Wrappers. Good condition, wrappers separated. Antonio Robles, who used the pseudonym "antoniorrobles," was a pioneer of the modern children's book in Spain. While Soviet children's books of this era are familiar, such books from Spain published during the Civil War period are practically never seen. In 1939 Robles, who had taken refuge in France after the fall of the Republic, departed for Mexico, where he continued to write books for children among other activities. No copies recorded in WorldCat; moreover, in the list of his children's book in the Wikipedia (Español) article devoted to him there is a gap essentially covering the years of the Civil War. A very extensive biography of him is given in Russian-language Wikipedia. $350.

IIIB-41. Antonio Castro Leal, André Simone, Bodo Uhse, Juan Rejano, Anna Seghers, Ludwig Renn, and Egon Erwin Kisch (editorial committee), Hannes Meyer (selection of illustrations). El Libro Negro del Terror Nazi en Europa. Mexico, Editorial El Libro Libre, 1943. Thick 8vo, 286 pp., 164 photographs, 50 print illustrations. Fine copy in near fine dust wrapper with minimal wear. Testimonies by artists and writers from 16 countries. Original illustrations by, among others, Gabriel Fernández Ledesma and Leopoldo Méndez. The book follows in the tradition of other “Black Books” on Nazi terror, but is an entirely separate and new creation. Rare. All publications of El Libro Libre are uncommon; the entire sales of all 26 titles published by the house amounted to only 54,000 copies. $1250

IIIB-42. Giménez Romero, Carlos. Bajo las garras de la Gestapo. 36 dias en capilla. Cubierta y contracubierta de Gerardo Lizárraga. México, Sociedad Mexicana de Publicaciones, 1943. Prologue by José Mancisidor, epilogue by J. P. Williams. Both the author and the designer of the covers were Republican exiles. Giménez was a key commander in the Republican army and took on the defense of Madrid in the closing battles of the Civil War. In French exile he joined the Maquis until captured by the Nazis. $85

IIIB-43. Linke, Lilo. Magic Yucatan. A journey remembered. London, Hutchinson, 1950. Very good copy in very good dust wrapper, name written faintly in upper left corner of front face of wrapper. Linke was a German Social Democrat. She fled Nazism and eventually settled in Ecuador. In 1947 she went to Mexico on the trip recorded in this book, staying for a year. $45.

IIIB-44. Regler, Gustav. The Owl of Minerva. The autobiography of Gustav Regler. New York, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1960). Translated by Norman Denny. Cloth with dust wrapper. First printing (stated). Dust wrapper very good, with a small chip at the top of the spine panel. In the Spanish Civil War Regler, a veteran Communist, was attached as political commissar to a unit in the international brigades. After being released from internment in France he and his wife Marie Luise Vogeler settled in Mexico in 1941. By then he had broken openly with the Communist movement. The fate of Trotsky could  have never been far from his mind, as former comrades also sought refuge there. Only a few pages at the end are devoted to his time in Mexico, and much of that understandably to his wife's illness, but they have to be some of the best written about the exile experience there. Not mentioned in the text is that Regler wrote two books about Mexico. $45

IV. Music

IV-1. Chávez, Carlos. Sonatina for Piano. Blue cloth with "Sonatina for Piano / By / Carlos Chávez" stamped in gilt on front board. Bound in is a photostatic reproduction of the original manuscript of this piano piece. 4 pp., written on staved music paper marked "G. Schirmer - New York." At the end of the music on the last page the piece is signed and dated within the reproduction "Carlos Chávez / México / dic. 924 [sic]."  Of unknown origin, perhaps unique. The staved music paper used is marked "G. Schirmer - New York." The piece was first published in 1930 by the Cos Cob Press. Provenance: Estate of Robert Cornell, a pianist and protege of Aaron Copland. No similar copies in WorldCat. $150

IV-2. Música Oaxaqueña. Recuerdo de la Junta Central de Caminos del Estado. A los H. H. Miembros del Primer Congreso Nacional de Turismo y Tercero Nacional de Caminos. Oaxaca, Edición del Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, 1930. Wrappers. Tall and narrow small folio, unpaginated, ca. 28 pp. of which six are preliminary pages and the rest songs. Fair copy, printed on newsprint-like paper which has considerably browned but is nevertheless not too brittle. Owner's name at top of cover page. No spine but pages are held together. To conserve this publication a previous owner put cellophane tape all along the edges of each page. Introduction by Efren Montano, and essays, "Oaxaca" by Baltasar Dromundo and "Las Biniguendas de Plata" by Jacinto Dalevuelta. 1967 clipping from Oaxaca magazine about a composer, José Lopez Alaves, laid in. Rare. We found no copies of this publication, even in the National Library of Mexico. $85

IV-3. Mexican Music. Notes by Herbert Weinstock for concerts arranged by Carlos Chavez as part of the exhibition Twenty Centuries of Mexican Art. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1940. Wrappers. Very good copy. Laid in is a gatefold brochure of six panels making 12 pp., advertising on the face of the folded brochure the record set A Program of Mexican Music (Columbia M414), with selections from the concerts. $35

IV-4. Carlos Chávez. Catalog of his works, with a preface by Herbert Weinstock. Catalógo de sus obras, con un prólogo de Herbert Weinstock. Washington, D.C., Pan-American Union, 1944. Wrappers. No. 187 of an edition of 500 copies. Very good condition, booklet slightly creased vertically near left side. Preface by Charles Seeger.  Weinstock's contribution is a substantial article taking up pp. ix-xxxi in English and Spanish versions. Pan American Union Music Division, Music Series No. 10. Laid in is an original photographic print, a portrait of Chávez. The image has the photographic studio's logo "SEMO" in the lower right corner, and on the verso has the studio's ink stamp "Foto-Semo" with a Mexico City address. The Semo studio was operated by two lifelong Russian Jewish anarchists, who fled to Mexico in 1940 after the German conquest of France. $150

V. Education and Politics

V-1. Basurto, Carmen G. La Patria del Futuro (República de Trabajadores).  México, D. F., The author, 1937. Wrappers. Pictorial cover. Poems and a couple of short plays for school children to perform. Illustrations by a 12 -year-old girl, Yolanda Barrientos Ríos. Full-page inscription above her name stamp from the author to Francisco Montes de Oca on the first page, a blank preceding the title page. The young illustrator went on to have a career in the field of education. $50

V-2. Beteta, Ramon. Programa económico y social de México (una controversia). Economic and social program of Mexico (a controversy). Ciudad de México, 1935. Wrappers. 211 pp. Good copy with some wear overall. Illustrations by Máximo Pacheco and Manuel F. Henríquez. Bilingual contents, English-language papers translated into Spanish by Beteta. Results of a round-table conference held at the University of Virginia in 1935 about the Mexican Six-Year Plan. Aside from the contributions initiated by Beteta, papers were presented by Dr. W. W. Cumberland, a businessman, (Rev.) Dr. R. A. McGowan, and Dr. Joseph P. Thorning, S.J. Each of these contributions were in turn subject to a rebuttal or refutation by Beteta. Ramon Beteta Quintana was an economist and held a number of government positions in Mexico. Vignette illustrations throughout. $45

V-3. (Cárdenas) Friday. Vol. 1, No. 18, July 12, 1940. Self-wrappers. Folio. About very good condition. This issue, largely devoted to current events in Mexico, eschewed Friday's usual flipped-sideways format and is folded conventionally.  Friday aspired to be a left-wing Life Magazine heavy on politics and photography.  The lead article for this issue is “Mexico's Historic Hour” by President Lázaro Cárdenas as told to Samuel Chavkin. This is followed by illustrated articles on the campaign of his successor, Manuel Avila Camacho. Other contents are “Art of Mexico” by Michael Sayers, with a two-page center spread of examples of work by Rivera, Siqueiros, and others, and a profile by Chavkin of labor leader Vicente Toledano. Further pages are devoted to the new film Pride and Prejudice, European war news, etc. Accompanied by several tearsheets from Life Magazine, December 2, 1940, pp. 96 ff., devoted to the start of Camacho's presidency. $100

V-4. Mexican Labor News. Published three times a month by the Press Department of the Workers University of Mexico. Vol. 1, No. 1, July 1, 1936. 8/12 X 11, 8 pp. , printed from typescript on rectos by mimeograph or a similar process. Vicente Lombardo Toledano is cited on last page as Director of the University. Publication continued until 1945 or 1949, depending on sources. According to the NYPL listing, publication was suspended for part of the first year (1936) for unspecified reasons. Not completely friendly to the Cárdenas government, e.g. “Mexican government breaks railroad strike,” but also warning of threatening fascist trends by General Calles. $45

V-5. (Nahuatl-Spanish Primer) Flores Sánchez, Sara. Cartilla nahuatl-español. Para los monolingües del estado de Morelos y de las regiones central y sur del estado de Puebla. México, Instituto de Alfabetización en Lenguas Indigenas, 1946.  Wrappers. Bilingual contents, Nahuatl only, then Nahuatl and Spanish, and finally readings in Spanish.  Illustrations by the Taller de Dibujo del  Departamento de Publicidad y Propaganda del Secretaria de Educación Pública. $85

V-6. Ramírez Cabañas, Luis. Las relaciones entre México y el Vaticano. Compilación  de documentos con un estudio preliminar y notas. México, Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1928. Wrappers. 8vo, xciv + 238 pp. Archivo Histórico Diplomático Mexicano, núm. 27. Concerns the early years of the Mexican Republic and its recognition by the Vatican. The Vatican and Spain recognized Mexican independence in 1836. Text in Spanish, with some documents in Italian. Documents cover the years 1821-1857. Most pages uncut. There is a brief mention of missions in Texas in the introduction. It can hardly be a coincidence that this research was conducted against the background of the Cristero War. $40

VI. Tourism

VI-1. Toor,  Frances. Frances Toor's Guide to Mexico. Mexico City, The author, 1934. Second edition (stated), revised. Note to the second edition on p. X. Colorful binding design of a Tehuana by Carlos Mérida. Maps and illustrations. Good copy, hinges tightened, tear in corner of folding map at point of attachment. Pencil notes on title page and occasionally within. $65

VI-2. Monografías Mexicanas. Estado de Morelos. Cuernavaca. Spanish and English edition. México, Editorial “Cultura,” 1934. 12mo, 78 pp., folding map. Bilingual contents. Good condition, map in very good condition. Color woodcut on cover by Isidoro Ocampo. Laid in is a  leaflet, Information of Interest to the American Tourist Visiting Mexico, issued by the Corrigan Despatch Company, Custom House Brokers, at the International Foot Bridge, Laredo, Texas. Back cover of leaflet has a vignette of the footbridge looking toward Nuevo Laredo, captioned “The Gateway to Mexico.” $45

VI-3. Toor, Frances. Frances Toor's Motorist Guide to Mexico. Maps and illustrations by Carlos Merida and A. Cervantes. Mexico City, Frances Toor Studios,  (1938). First edition (stated). Somewhat narrow 8vo.  Colorful cloth binding. Dust jacket present, in only fair condition; front panel and top of spine panel are chipped, with some invasion on the front panel into the lettering. A large chunk of the rear panel, which lists other Frances Toor publications, is missing. The incomplete front panel merely matches the binding design, so no information is lost. Both inside flaps are present and complete. Scarce, more so in jacket, even in the condition of the present copy. $65

VI-4. Pemex Travel Club. Mexico's western highways, including the cities of Toluca, Morelia, Patzcuaro, Uruapan, Guadalajara. Presented by Pemex Travel Club (division of Petróleos mexicanos). Mexico City, Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, n.d. (1940s). Cover art signed with initials. 112 pp., maps, photographs. As an indication of the date, Coyoacán is shown as an isolated community.  $50

VI-5. Asociación Mexicana de Turismo. Itineraries and approximate cost of a motor trip to Mexico. Mexico, D.F., Departamento de Turismo de la Secretaria de Gobernación, Asociación Mexicana de Turismo, n.d. (1940s). Good condition, tear to inside margin on one page. Colorful cover in “indigenista” style. Illustrated with maps and photographs. $50

VI-6. Zacatecas. Mapa para el turista. Tacubaya, D.F., Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, Dirección de Geografía Meteorología y Hidrología, 1942. Folding map inside covers. Partly printed in color. Fine condition. $45

VI-7. Yucatán. Mapa para el turista.  Tacubaya, D.F., Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, Dirección de Geografía y Meteorología , 1947. Folding map inside covers. Partly printed in color. Fine condition. $45

VII. Periodicals and Ephemera

VII-1. Esmalte de Blundell. Fabricado por Blundell, Spence & Co., Limited, Hull y 9 Upper Thames Street, London. Muy durable. Superficie semejanta a la porcelana. [etc.] Folding card with 54 mounted enamel samples in various colors, colors are identified on left side of fold. N.d., ca. 1900. In Spanish throughout. Very good condition, one enamel sample rubbed. A lovely piece of ephemera and evidence of the turn-of-the-century building boom in Mexico City.  $135

VII-2. Mexican Art and Life. Complimentary copy. Preview issue. Undated, first regular issue is announced as scheduled for “the 30^th of next September,” but publication did not commence until January, 1938. Front cover by Carlos Mérida. About very good condition, front cover with small chip in lower left corner. Articles on Mexico's three civilizations, the falsity of a “red Mexico,” Americans in Mexico by American ambassador Josephus Daniels, etc. Beautiful lithographic printing. Mexican Art and Life was edited by José Juan Tablada and published by the Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad (DAPP). Seven issues appeared between 1938 and 1939.  All issues were published in wrappers and in the same folio size as this complimentary issue. $100

VII-3. Mexican Art and Life. January, 1938 No. 1. Very good copy. Cover in folkloric style by Ledesma. Articles on Tenochtitlan / Mexico City, commentary by Ramon Beteta on the Mexican seminar (see above in the Politics section), art of Joaquin Clausell, pre-Hispanic ball game, etc. $100

VII-4. Mexican Art and Life. January, 1938 No. 1. Another copy. Fair-good only, top right corner of all pages broken off. $40

VII-5. Mexican Art and Life. January, 1939. No. 5. Cover illustration is a reproduction of a gouache by Bulmaro Guzmán. Largely articles on material culture (feather mosaics, colonial painting), one article of contemporary interest on the painter Carlos Orozco Romero. Good condition, two short tears in edge of last page, small chip at bottom edge of rear cover. $85

VII-6. Mexican Art and Life. July, 1939. No. 7. “In the 400^th anniversary of printing in Mexico.” The last issue of this periodical. Contents largely follow the four centuries of printing. Good condition, small chip at lower right corner of front wrapper. Double-page reproduction of a color xylograph, the Virgin of the Rosary, considered an incunable of Mexican printing. $85

VII-7. (Curio Trade) Corrasco Hermanos. Wrapping paper of a shop selling “Mexican native arts,” ca. 1940, trimmed to wrap a purchase, later folded as a keepsake in a souvenir album. Dimensions ca. 60 cm X 33 cm. Photograph of the shop front within typography. The shop was located in Nogales, Sonora. $25

VII-8. Corrido de la Revolución Mexicana. Teatro Mexicano de Masas. Auditorium Nacional. Noviembre de 1955. México, D. F. [cover title]. Wrappers. Small folio. 12 pp. Souvenir program for a pageant celebrating the Mexican Revolution. Spectacular illustrated pages in different colors. Art work by Francisco Moreno Capdevila and Lorenzo Guerrero. Sponsored by the Secretaria de Educación Publica and the Instituto de Bellas Artes. Good condition, wrappers partly parted, slight corner chipping. $100

VII-9. (Oaxacan Festivities) Poster, unfolding to ca. 36”X 24”, celebrating the golden jubilee of the coronation of the patroness saint of Oaxaca, La Virgen de la Soledad. Good condition, with some breaks where the folds intersect. The celebrations took place from January 16 to 18, 1959. Accompanied by a program of the guelaguetza that includes a list of the precious objects donated by parishes and villages to the museum of the Sanctuary, two other small posters on very thin and fragile paper, a poem printed on slick paper with an image of the statue of the Virgin on the reverse side, and newspaper clippings documenting the same celebrations. A likely unique assemblage. The colonial-era church was elevated to the status of a basilica in the same year. The gold, jewel-encrusted crown created for this occasion was stolen in 1991 and never recovered. $375

VII-10. México en el Surrealismo. La transfusión creativa. Artes de México. Número 64.   México, Artes de México y del Mundo, 2003. Wrappers. Small folio. Articles by Octavio Paz, Wolfgang Paalen, et al. Articles on Alice Paalen, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin Peret, et al. English versions of main articles at rear. Amusing subscription form laid in. $45

VIII. Photography

VIII-1. (Photo Book - Expositions) Exposición Ibero-Americana. Sevilla. Palacio de México. n.publ., n.d. [1929]. Wrappers, stapled. Oblong 8vo. Twelve black-and-white gravure plates. The pavilion was designed in neo-Mayan style by Yucatan architect Manuel Amabilis. It stands today as part of the University of Seville. One copy only in WorldCat (CSIC, Spain). $250

VIII-2. Documentary Photographs of the Agrarian Reform Movement. Binder with twenty-five 10” X 8” photographic prints in sleeves. Twenty-two document the ceremony of granting of ejido rights to the community of San Bernabe Ocotepec, a village on the outskirts of greater Mexico City within the borough of La Magdalena Contreras. The other three photographs are of the gateway to the Colonia Campesina “Victoriano Carranza,” Tlalnepantla, with the dates 1940-1941 as part of the gateway signage. The Cárdenas government put into force an unfulfilled promise of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 that the communal rights of the peasants to the land they farmed, the ejido system, would be restored. We have not been able to find out the exact date on which the ceremony at San Bernabe Ocotepec took place. Two different sets of hand-written versions of captions for the ceremony in English and a letter with envelope from agronomist Emilio Brom Rojas to photographer Arthur Rothstein, dated July 28, 1942. in Spanish, accompany the photographs. At that time Rothstein was working in the newly constituted Office of War Information in New York City; immediately prior to that he was employed by Look Magazine, and before that by the Farm Security Administration, where he did his best known work. That the letter was sent to his new workplace implies a recent back and forth with Mexican contacts. The letter asks for information about where the photographs will be published and whether Rothstein plans to return to Mexico. Publication was evidently promised and foreseen, but to the best of our knowledge this never happened. A search of the US National Archives determined that Rothstein was in fact refused permission to make a fact-finding trip to Mexico and Central America by the Department of State at the end of 1942, one year into the war. Further, no photographs of Rothstein in the Library of Congress are of Mexico except for some of a bullfight in the border city of Matamoros, and there is no concrete evidence that he ventured on his own as far as Mexico City. The Rothstein Foundation was contacted but knew only of his cross-border trip. It therefore is safest to assume that a government photographer or another photographer on assignment was responsible for taking the photographs. As to how and why Rothstein was in the loop in connection to them is a question we have not been able to answer. Emilio Brom Rojas fought in the Mexican Revolution as a very young man and went on to have a long career as an agronomist.  The government official in two of the photographs is identified in the captions as Luis Alcérreca, later the author of a dictionary of Mexican agrarian law. The photographs include a view of the venerable church at San Bernabe Ocotepec. We visited this church as part of the research on the photographs. Further details on request. $1875

VIII-3. Gilpin, Laura. Three black-and-white postcards with Hispanic subject matter drawn from the collections of the Taylor Museum for Southwestern Studies, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado. All are copyright by the Gilpin Publishing Co., Colorado Springs, and were printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, known for their fine quality work. The Gilpin Publishing Co. was established by her in the 1920s. Cards are undated. Subjects are the Spanish Colonial Gallery of the Taylor Museum, a Penitente Santo in Tierro, from a Penitente church in northern New Mexico, and a Penitente Cristo, from a Penitente church in New Mexico. Fine condition. Not used postally. Gilpin is best known for her documentary work among the Navajo. $150

IX. The Southwest and California

IX-1. Campo, Arthur Leon. Spanish Folk-Poetry of New Mexico. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, (1946). Wrappers. 8vo., 224 p. Dissertation. The author was born in Mexico in 1905, and educated in the United States. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the Army Air Corps  in the European Theater. Near very good condition, back wrapper chipped in lower left corner. $30

IX-2. Galvin, John (Ed.). The Coming of Justice to California. Three documents. Translated from the Spanish by Adelaide Smithers. San Francisco, John Howell - Books, 1963. Edition of 750 copies. Preface by the editor, John Galvin. Three documents marking the transition from military to civil rule as California developed from a border region of New Spain to a province of Mexico. The first document, from 1772, lays down a code for the presidios on the frontier line of New Spain, and is especially concerned with the correct treatment of the indigenous Indian population. The second, from 1831, translates the text of an extremely rare pamphlet by a native Californian, Carlos Antonio Carrillo, deputy for Alta California, asking for the establishment of courts in the territory. The third is a decree by Santa Anna from 1834 establishing circuit courts and tribunals. Fine copy, finely printed on high-quality paper. Pages uncut. $35

IX-3. Lucero-White, Aurora (compiled and edited by). Folk-Dances of the Spanish-Colonials of New Mexico. Music transcribed by Eunice Hauskins. Patterns and descriptions of dances by Helene Mareau. Santa Fe, Examiner Publishing Corp., ca. 1940. Heavy wrappers. 8vo, 48 pp. Very good, lightly creased down middle, old owner's name in booklet. Laid in is a four-page music sheet (last page blank) with a crude cover illustration for the dance "La Varsoviana" arranged by Leo Gonzalez. The sheet music bears a printed inscription on the front page "To Mrs. De Huff [Elizabeth Willis De Huff, art educator, author, and supporter of Native American cultures] from Leo Gonzalez." $75

IX-4. Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Winter in Taos. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1935. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, and Ernest Knee. Very good copy in good dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped and has a triangular chip in the upper left corner of the front panel.  $150

IX-5. Luhan, Mabel Dodge. Edge of Taos Desert. An escape into reality. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1937. Cloth with dust jacket. Very good copy in good dust jacket. Jacket is price-clipped. Last volume of her memoirs.  $125

IX-6. (Menu) Mexico Cafe. 1726 E. Van Buren. [Brownsville, Texas].”All dishes served are strictly Spanish or Mexican.” Tamales could be purchased by the dozen. Four pages. Dated note from December, 1941, laid in. $60

IX-7. (Menu) Original Mexican Restaurant. O. M. Farnsworth, Proprietor. 115-117-119 Losoya Street. San Antonio, Tex. Narrow card, printed in color on face incorporating Mexican state symbol of the eagle and serpent in the design. Undated, late '30s. Special supper, the most expensive item, was $1.00  The Original Mexican Restaurant opened for business in 1900 and catered to an Anglo clientele. $50

IX-8. Nachod, Hans. The Resettlement of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico in 1693-1695. Rare Books, vol. 6, no. 4, September, 1949, pp. 1-4.  In: H. P. Kraus Catalogue 52, Latin America . . . With an appendix. Early books from the Philippine Islands and the Far East. Nachod's introduction points to primary sources offered in the catalog relating to the resettlement of Santa Fe by Spanish forces after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. The catalog also includes other rare Mexican imprints. $40

IX-9. Parsons, Elsie Clews. Isleta, New Mexico. Washington, DC, US Government Printing Office, 1932. Wrappers. Small folio. “Extract from the Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.” First separate printing. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Good condition, front wrapper and spine chipped here and there. $75

IX-10. Repplier, Agnes. Junipero Serra. Pioneer colonist of California. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1942. Later printing with 1942 date on title page (copyright 1933). Cloth with dust jacket. Book is physically in quite good condition with very minor wear to the lower edges of the boards. Dust jacket near very good with some small chips at the spine extremities and a short narrow chip off the top edge of the back panel in a blank area, spine panel darkened, tape ghosts on front free endpaper. Inscription on the front flyleaf: "To Mr. W. Ingham Compliments of Mr. and Mrs. Matthews Carmel, California June 10 1945." Small bookseller's mark of the Village Bookshop, Carmel, on front free flyleaf. Laid into the book is a small packet, at one taped to the endpaper, containing a flat piece of wood, about an inch and a half square, encased in glassine. Written on a strip of paper accompanying the fragment, in the same handwriting as the gift inscription, are the words "A bit of Father Serra's coffin." In 1943 his body was exhumed as part of the canonization process and placed in a metal casket. Small fragments of his redwood coffin were likely given to the faithful as mementos at that time. Some remains of the coffin are now kept in a sealed display in the Carmel Mission Basilica and Museum. $100

IX-11. Stowell, Jay S. The Near Side of the Mexican Question. New York, George H. Doran Company, (1921). Cloth. Small 8vo, 123 pp. About very good copy. A sympathetic look at the reality of Mexican immigration into the Southwest United States, which the author nevertheless saw as a social problem. As an official of the Methodist Episcopal Church Stowell regarded the Catholic allegiance of the migrants with disfavor. In a later work he argued against Mexican immigration. $40

IX-12. (WPA) The Spanish-American Song and Game Book. New York, A. S. Barnes, (1942). Square 8vo. Cloth with dust jacket. Illustrated with line drawings. Bilingual text. Joint project of the Writers' Program, Music Program, and Art Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of New Mexico. As usual, members of the WPA programs are not identified, but in this case the names of individuals who supplied the songs and games are given next to each contribution. Foreword by the Project supervisor for New Mexico Charles Ethrige Minton. A few of the illustrations are signed in the plate by Gisella Loeffler. Loeffler was an artist resident of Taos. Her daughter Undine Gutierrez also worked on the illustrations. $200

X. Children's Books

X-1. Morrow, Elizabeth. The Painted Pig. A Mexican picture book. Pictures by Rene d'Harnoncourt. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition. Boards. Lacks dust jacket. Nicely inscribed by Morrow on the half-title “To Jessica Hapgood / Hoping that she likes savings banks in piggish or practical shapes / Elizabeth Morrow.” $500

V-2. Armer, Laura Adams (story and pictures). The Forest Pool. New York, Longmans, Green and Co.., (1938). First edition (stated). Illustrated endpapers. Colorful dust jacket with a wraparound design. Jacket in very good condition with a small triangular chip in the lower edge of the front panel. Illustrated with spectacular full-page lithographs and marginal sketches. $200

X-3. Smith, Susan. Made in Mexico. Decorated with photographs and drawings by Julio Castellanos. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First edition, first issue dust jacket with advertisement for The Painted Pig on the back panel. Yellow cloth with dust jacket, decorative endpapers. Book about very good, publisher's imprint at base of spine partially faded, inoffensive pencil gift inscription on dedication page. Dust jacket about good, chipped along upper edge front and back and at bottom of spine panel. Illustrated throughout with line drawings. Photographs form a special chapter of 24 pp. at the rear of the book; four, of frescoes by Máximo Pacheco at a primary school, are credited to Tina Modotti. Julio Castellanos González (1905-1947) was a painter, engraver and muralist who trained in Mexico and the United States and exhibited internationally. $200

X-4. Politi, Leo. Little Pancho. New York, The Viking Press, 1938. Printed boards. Fine in near fine dust jacket. First book by the chronicler of Mexican-American life on Los Angeles' Olvera Street.  $150

X-5, (Barbara Latham) Duplaix, Lily. Pedro, Nina and Perrito. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1939. Large 4to. Cloth and pictorial boards. Superb color lithographs by Taos artist Barbara Latham, especially striking is a double-page panoramic one showing farming activities. Story is set in a village in New Mexico.  $75

X-6. Ferrer, Melchor G. Tito's Hats. Garden City, Garden City Publishing Co., 1940. Illustrated by Jean Charlot. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. This book precedes his breaking into a highly successful show business career as Mel Ferrerr. Ferrer was American-born, but on his father's side was Cuban-American. The book resulted from a sojourn in Mexico.  $125

X-7. Brenner, Anita. The Boy Who Could Do Anything & Other Mexican Folk Tales. Retold by Anita Brenner. With illustrations by Jean Charlot.  New York, William R. Scott, 1942.  Decorated cloth with dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly chipped at top of spine panel and adjacent corner of front panel. $100

X-8. Brenner, Anita. I Want to Fly. Illustrated by Lucienne Bloch.  New York, William R. Scott, 1943. Boards with dust jacket. Very good copy in very good dust jacket. Very scarce in such nice condition. No Mexican content, but author and artists were connected socially through Diego Rivera. Lucienne Bloch was Rivera's mural assistant in several projects, including the Rockefeller Center mural. She left the only photographic record of that mural before it was destroyed. $200

X-9. Cook, Howard. Sammi's Army. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. First edition (stated). Orig. cloth. Very good copy in about very good dust jacket. Keystone-shaped spine leaning, binding otherwise neat and clean. Jacket has slight signs of wear at edges, with small chips at one point along the top edge of the rear panel and at the base and top of the spine. One page has a minute bit of the lower tip missing due to its having adhered to the next page, and there are marks of the adhesion in the lower corner of the two pages. Sammi, a boy from an unspecified Latin American country, repels an invasion. Cook and Barbara Latham were husband and wife and belonged to the Taos artists' community. In the year this book was published Cook entered government service10as a war artist and was sent to the Pacific theater of operations. $125

X-10. Brenner, Anita. Dumb Juan and the Bandits. New York, Young Scott Books, (1957). Boards with dust jacket. Book is very near fine, but the dust jacket is only fair to good, showing considerable erosion along the spine and the joint of the front foldover, possibly a manufacturing defect. The story first appeared in The Boy Who Could Do Anything (item X-7). Illustrations by Jean Charlot in green and black.  $50

X-11. Ets, Maria Hall and Aurora Labastida. Nine Days to Christmas. New York, The Viking Press, 1959. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. First state of dust jacket without the Caldecott Medal sticker. Binding decorated with figures of piñatas. Aurora Labastida was a librarian in Mexico City. She proposed to Ets that they create a picture book based on the Christmas of a modern and urban Mexican family, rather than one in a stereotypical rural setting. $300

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