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Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
by LEWIS, OSCAR
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Alberto Beltran. Random House Second printing of First Edition, 1964. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. 30 full page drawings, monotone, by Alberto Beltran. Bound in red half cloth with sharp and bright gilt titles, black cloth wrapped with sun design blind-stamped on front. . Clean and unmarked, no edgewear, tight and solid sewn binding, square with sharp corners. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Red endpapers. Former owner name on endpaper. Pages very clean and unmarked, no creases. lightly toned. Gold Jacket is clean, edges and corners with moderate wear, spine head and heel chipped. Price-clipped. Jacket now with clear archival protective cover. . 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. 6.75 x 1.5 x 9.75 inches. Random House, New York, 1964.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017174
- Title
- Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
- Author
- LEWIS, OSCAR
- Illustrator
- Alberto Beltran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- 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, ZAPATA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
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- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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