Search Results: the streets of mexico by obregon luis gonzalez

San Francisco: George Fields, 1937. 1st Eng trans. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a worn dustjacket, 200 pages. Translated by Blanche Collet Wagner. Historical vignettes, legends, and folklore from Spanish Colonial times when Mexico City was the viceregal capital of New Spain. Record # 9390

San Francisco: George Fields. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+ in Very good+ dj (corner chip & small tear on jacket); 200 pp.hardback .

San Francisco: George Fields, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good-. Ethel E. Pletsch. 8vo. Pp. 200. Frontis. author portrait. Illustrated with Pletsch drawings. Brown cloth, titles stamped in black on the cover and spine. In the illustrated dust jacket: spine a tad sunned, old paper reinforcement verso. The historian, archivist and folklorist evokes the street life, legends and characters of his native Mexico City from Aztec to modern times. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.

SF., George Fields, 1937 C1917. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, hardcover, near fine in VG purple and yellow dj in mylar. Translated from the Spanish by Collet Wagner. An entertaining book giving legends and traditions of Mexico described in stories. Book in 1917 was called "Las Calles de Mexico" which enabled readers in imagination to repeople the street of his native city, with the men and women who trod them in centuries past. Aztecs of high and low degree, conquistadores, viceroys, friars, nuns, soldiers, clerks, merchants, mendicants, slaves, murderers, judges, officers of Holy Inquisition and green-clad heretics condemned to the stake. 200 pp.

San Francisco, George Fields, 1937., 1937. First American edition. 8vo. Translated, with a foreword by Blanche Collet Wagner. Frontispiece portrait; headpiece illustrations by Ethel E. Pietsch. Original black stamped brown cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped; few nicks). Very good. 41 short stories.. F. Hardcover.