Bullfighting Ephemera

Publication: Privately printed, 1946, 1954, 1958, 1959, NP

Consists of several items. 1) 19" X 8 3/4" broadside, printed in green ink, and announcing a bullfight in Ecuador and featuring Bernardino Landete, Jeronimo Pimentel, Enrique Vera, Mario Carrion, Manolo Zuniga. Printed by Artes Graficas. Pricing. Broadside chipped at edges. Good. 2) 1958 - 18 1/2" x 4 7/8" Broadside "Plaza de Toros. Arenas de Quito." Beautiful 5 1/4" x 3 3/4" color illustration of a bull charging the matador's cape. Announcing bullfight in Ecuador and featuring Alfredo Leal of Mexico, Paco Corpas of Spain and Fernanco Traversari ("El Pando") of Quito. Printed by Imprenta Aboitiz. Pricing. Folds. Very good. 3) 1946 - 18" x 4 7/8" Broadside "Plaza de Toros. La Macarena." Beautiful 6 1/4" x 3 7/8" color illustration of a senorita. Announcing bullfight in Columbia and featuring Carlos Arruza, Luis Gomez "El Estudiante," of Spain, Alejandro Montani of Peru. Pricing. Folds. Very good. 4) 1959 - 12 1/2" x 8 3/4" sheet announcing "Toros en 'La Macarena,'" Columbia. Features Benjamin Lopez Esqueda, Edgar Puente, and Miguel Baez. On the opposite side offers an advertisement for beer. Folds and tanning. Good. 5) 13 1/2" x 9 1/2" color poster showing Jimenez Torres, Spanish matador, showing a bull charging the matador's cape and with a cameo of Torres' head at top right. 4" tear to top edge of poster. Folds. Good. 6) 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" unused postcard published by Panagra (Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc.) and showing a matador and bull and printed in red ink at bottom is the word "PERU" and with a plane flying through the word. Lightly soiled. Very good. 7) 4" x 5" ink etching of a bull's head and 8) 6th edition of Tom Lea's Bullfight Manual for Spectators. Published by Carol Hertzog Publisher, 1954. Pic. wrappers, 24pp. Foreword. Contents. Illustrations. An outline of how and possibly why the brave bulls are fought. Information on the uniform worn by the matador, a description of the men who fight the bulls, their equipment, how and when that equipment is used and for what reason. a section on the art of the cape and descriptions of the three periods of any bullfight - the Tercio of the Varas, the Tercio of the Banderillas, and the Tercio of the Death. A very informative piece. First page is tanned and with light soiling to wrappers.

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