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Hardcover (Rebound in Card). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Size: Small Octavo. Item Type: Ephemera, small booklet or pamphlet, limited pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Children; Fiction. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 22504. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Volume II, Number 1. This issue edited by Thomas M. Cranfill. Small quarto. 202, 117, [57 illustrations] pp. Printed wrappers with modest rubbing and wear, spine with some vertical creasing and tiny nicks at the base neatly strengthened, very good and sound. A large and interesting issue, featuring a portion from *The Labyrinth of Solitude* by Octavio Paz; "Mexicanism: The Theory and the Reality," by Ramón Xirau; "Mexico's Position in Latin America," by Antonio Castro Leal; "The Physiognomy of the *Apretado*," by José Portilla; "The Mexican Idea of Death," by Emilio Uranga; An Interview with José Vasconcelos by Samuel Kaplan; "A Memoir of Alfonso Reyes," by Walter Starkie; "Tomorrow in Ancient Mesoamerica," by John Paddock; "Agrarian Reform and Economic Development," by Edmundo Flores; "Half a Century of Education in Mexico," by Francsico Larroyo; "The Provincial University in Mexicoa Personal View," by Joe B. Frantz; "Art Today in Mexico," by José Miguel García Ascot, and "Riches and Severity: An Episode in Mexican Architecture," Henry W. Wells, among others. "The Muse in Mexico: a Mid-Century Miscellany," edited by Thomas M. Cranfill, features 16 portraits of Mexican artists by Hans Beacham, 117 pages of Mexican poetry and prose, and over 50 pages of black and white reproductions of Mexican art.