Mexican Children And Toys. Twelve Mexican Tales. 12 Color Plates

RAMON VALDIOSERA

Publication: Fischgrund Studios, 1949, Mexico

Text by Hector Ventura Castro; Translated by Ruth Poyo. 20 pp. of text which tells the stories plus 12 full-page color plates depicting a scene from each story. Booklet is stapled at spine and housed in a 8 3/8" x 6 3/8" cardboard folder which is covered with glassine for protection. Front of folder shows a young Mexican girl holding her doll. Prologue. 12 Stories and illustrations include "Pachito and His Piggy Bank," "The Three Wise Kings," "Death and the Devil," "The Puppet Boy," "The Fruit Harvest," "The Friend of the Little Horses," "The Little Straw Donkey," "Antonia's Little Doll," "The Little Mules of Corpus Christi," "The Guitar and the Blind Man," "The Little Fighting Roosters," and "The Singing Doll." Light soiling to first page of text along with light wear to top edge of one plate. Former owner's name neatly written at inside top of front wrapper along with light soiling to glassine wrappers, light bumping to over-sized wrappers and with chipping to corners and spine edges of glassine. Very good.

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