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Mexican Journey. An Intimate Guide To Mexico. How To Get There. Where To Go. How To Speak. What To See. What To Buy. What To Wear. Self-Pronouncing Phrase-Book. Budgets. Directories. Motor Roads. With Maps And Photographs. / (Title Page) Mexican Journey. An Intimate Guide To Mexico MACKIE, EDITH & SHELDON DICK

Mexican Journey. An Intimate Guide To Mexico. How To Get There. Where To Go. How To Speak. What To See. What To Buy. What To Wear. Self-Pronouncing Phrase-Book. Budgets. Directories. Motor Roads. With Maps And Photographs. / (Title Page) Mexican Journey. An Intimate Guide To Mexico

MACKIE, EDITH & SHELDON DICK

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Publication: Dodge Publishing Co, 1935, New York

First edition. 8vo. in green publisher’s cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine and with dust jacket showing small photo illustrations on front wrapper and pictorial map on rear wrapper. xii, 223, [1] pp. Photo plates. Five pictorial maps on four folding leaves. Also includes ticket stubs from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia, bullfight ticket, program, and travel label for the Hamilton Hotel in Laredo, Texas. A travel guide encouraging Americans to visit ... explained that the Mexican Revolution was long over, and with some qualifications there are material comforts of inner-spring mattresses and tiled bathrooms. Chapters include How to Get to Mexico; Food and Drink in Mexico; Legend of Tenochtitlan; Mexico City; East, Southeast, South, West, Northwest, Northeast of Mexico City; a Mexico City Directory; How to Speak Enough Spanish to Get Along; Veracruz; Cordoba; Jalapa; Mazatlan; Queretaro; Monterrey; Taxco, Acapulco; Yucatan; Itza; Uxmal; etc. The pictorial maps are titled: Mexico City; Environs; Railway and Steamship Lines; Airways and Roads; and Nuevo Laredo ... Mexico City Road. 16 pages of black and white photographs depicting every day life, churches, etc. Very rare in original jacket. Book plate of Thomas Armstrong attached to front pastedown sheet; minor sunning to fore-edges along with light toning to endpapers, and with light sunning to spine of dust jacket and with wear to extremities. Very good.

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