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The Children of Sanchez The Autobiography of a Mexican Family

The Children of Sanchez The Autobiography of a Mexican Family

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The Children of Sanchez The Autobiography of a Mexican Family

by [Bartlett, Hall, Inscription] Lewis, Oscar

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New York: Modern Library. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1969. First Thus. Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition, September 1969 [stated]. SIGNED full page inscription on front end page by film maker Hall Bartlett and dated February 25th 1972. Inscription states "Dear Diane and Mike. This is my next film, the one with Tony Quinn", that it took three years of fighting to get the movie rights and asking Diane and Mike for collaboration on the film. The film was released in 1978 staring Anthony Quinn and titled the same as the book. The movie was nominated for both a Golden Globe and at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1979 [IMDB and Golden Globes]. The late Hall Bartlett (1912-1993) started his film production company in 1952 and made other movies with actors Bob Hope [The Paleface - 1948], Robert Stack, Joan Crawford [The Caretakers - 1963] and Sidney Poitier [All the Young Men -1960]. Oscar Lewis (1914-1970) was an American anthropologist who studied "the culture of poverty" who was professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis (1946-48) later at the University Of Illinois. Lewis also worked for Human Relations Area Files, Interamerican Indian Institute and the U. S. Department of Agriculture [Columbia Encyclopedia]. The book was once banned in Mexico for political reasons. Very light top spine end and cover corner bumping. Very slight smudge mark front page ends. Clean and unmarked text. Very small sticker remnant on front edge of front paste-down. No DJ. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 499 pages; Signed by Notable Personage, Unrelated .

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Title
The Children of Sanchez The Autobiography of a Mexican Family
Author
[Bartlett, Hall, Inscription] Lewis, Oscar
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition
First Thus
Publisher
Modern Library
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1969
Bookseller catalogs
First Editions/First Printings; Collectible - Signed; Biography & Autobiography;

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