MEXICO 1938 by GREATER UNIVERSITY of TOURS (With a series of 27 Mexico City bull fight photos)
by [bull fighting] 07d
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- FINE b/w photos. About 250 4"x3" of Mexico, in worn photo album
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
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About This Item
FINE b/w photos. About 250 4"x3" of Mexico, in worn photo album. 1938. Hardcover. FINE photos. 4to 44 leaves.(3) 4"X3" photos glued on each side. First 27 photos of a bull fight in Mexico City's El Torco ring. . Bullfight photos from prelims, to the sword thrust, to the dead bull being dragged away. The Greater University of Tours photo (the first page in the album) was likely a commercial tour group. The group numbered about 20, aged from 30 to 50, with just a few men. There is a photo of the bus and a few pictures of the group but there are no names or personal information of any kind. Photos of Rio Frio, volcanos, Puebla, tree where Cortez wept, Topoztlan, Tasco, Tepozteco, cathedrals, convents, San Juan Teotihuacan, Chapultepec Castle, Pyramid of Tenayuca, Guadalupe shrine, Quetzalcoati temple, Teotihuacan and many other locales. 3 leaves with b/w post cards, 3 others of photos taken in the US. Pix glued to black paper leaves, all(save bullfight sequence) with neat annotation in white ink. Album bound in either crocodile or alligator. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001284
- Title
- MEXICO 1938 by GREATER UNIVERSITY of TOURS (With a series of 27 Mexico City bull fight photos)
- Author
- [bull fighting] 07d
- Illustrator
- About 250 b/w 4"x3" photos.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE b/w photos. About 250 4"x3" of Mexico, in worn photo album
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- FINE photos. 4to 44 leaves.(3) 4"X3" photos glued on each side. First, 27 photos of a bull fight in Mexico City's El Torco ring., mexico, bull ring, bull fight, photos, travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...