Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
by LEWIS, OSCAR
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Alberto Beltran. Random House, 1964. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. 30 full page drawings, monotone, by Alberto Beltran. Red full cloth w/gilt titles, clean and unmarked, tight and solid. Light wear to extremities. Rough cut. Green endpapers. Former owner name stamp on endpaper. Pages very clean and unmarked. The story of Pedro Martinez and his life and the lives of his wife and children, told in his own words, and sometimes in theirs. 'Pedro Martinez' is an anthropological study and a literary masterpiece. It is a personal and a universal story; the story of his marginal, often brutal life, and also the story of the impact of the twentieth century--its technology, its politics, its revolutions- on the life of peasants generally. lvii, 507 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches.Random House, New York, 1964.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019185
- Title
- Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
- Author
- LEWIS, OSCAR
- Illustrator
- Alberto Beltran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MEXICO; AZTECA; REVOLUTION-MEXICAN; VILLAGES-MEXICO; ZAPATA;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
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