El Coyote (6 results)
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Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United KingdomRevaluation Books
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 46 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.11 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand. Pompa, Charles Harrison (illustrator).
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Seller: Celler Versandantiquariat, Eicklingen, GermanyCeller Versandantiquariat
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Add to basketHobby-Nostalgie-Druck (um 1990). Je Album 17 S. mit 64 montierten Bildern, orig. kart.---Nachdruck der EA, Schwicker, 1951 572 Gramm.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerJosé Mallorquí's El Coyote novels in Spanish and Italian editions from 1957 to 1973, documenting the international circulation and repeated redesign of a Spanish popular fiction series set in California after its annexation by the United States. Mallorquí created the masked Californio hero in 1943 and developed the series throug…h 192 titles, placing Don César de Echagüe and his alter ego within conflicts over land, political authority, racial hierarchy, and American settlement during the Gold Rush era. The four principal volumes extend from an Italian illustrated periodical edition to later Barcelona pocket book issues published by Bruguera and Favencia, showing how publishers repackaged the same fictional world for successive postwar readerships. Mallorquí's series became his best known work and remained in print through multiple publishing programs after the original run ended. Four illustrated paperback novels, approximately 100 to 120 pages each, Milan and Barcelona, 1957 to 1973. [1] Mallorquí, José. "El Diablo" a Los Angeles. Milan: Casa Editrice Dardo, 1957. Second Italian edition, issued in the Collana del Coyote, Anno VII, No. 157, dated August 1, 1957. The illustrated wrapper depicts two armed men in Mexican dress beneath the series title El Coyote; the title page carries a masked portrait signed F. Batet. [2] Mallorquí, José. El secreto de Maise Syer. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, circa 1968 to 1971. Spanish pocket edition with an Antonio Bernal cover showing two mounted figures confronting one another beneath bare branches. The front wrapper bears manuscript markings in pencil and crayon, including "Num. 30," while the rear promotes Bruguera's El Coyote, Enviado Secreto, and Oeste Legendario series and gives the retail price as ten pesetas. [3] Mallorquí, José. Sierra de oro. Barcelona: Ediciones Favencia, 1973. Illustrated paperback with a masked gunman in a sombrero on the wrapper; Jano credited for the cover and Pedro Alférez González for the illustrations. The copyright page records legal deposit B. 33561-1973 and ISBN 242-0024-1, while the preliminary matter directs readers to biographical sketches of the principal characters and a map of the geographical area in which the action occurs. The editions span a period when Mallorquí's Californio hero had moved beyond the original Spanish series into translation, reprinting, film, radio, and comic adaptation. The Italian issue places El Coyote within a Milanese periodical program in 1957, while the Bruguera and Favencia volumes document Barcelona publishers returning the novels to circulation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their wrappers shift from Batet's masked caballero and Mexican costuming to Bernal and Jano's painted scenes of pursuit, firearms, and confrontation, while maps and character biographies supplied later readers with a recurring geography and cast. The group records how Spanish publishers converted nineteenth century California into a durable postwar popular mythology centered on a bilingual, aristocratic masked avenger negotiating the transfer of power from Mexican to American rule. Water staining, page toning, heavy handling wear, wrapper creasing and losses, and notes in pencil and crayon throughout. Overall fair condition. Supplemented by two free reading copies lacking their illustrated wrappers, Trueno negro, No. 50, and Otra vez el pasado, No. 87, in poor condition. Signed.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerMallorquí, José. El Coyote, a long-running Spanish-language Western series centered on the masked Californio vigilante César de Echagüe, documenting Mexican and Californio resistance narratives within twentieth-century popular fiction. Originally developed in the 1940s and widely circulated throughout Spain and Latin America, th…e series reworked the conventions of the American Western by positioning Mexican landowners, laborers, and Californios as protagonists confronting racial violence, legal dispossession, and Anglo expansion following the annexation of California. The archive reflects Spanish-language popular culture and diasporic literary circulation, illustrating how pulp fiction became a vehicle for preserving alternative historical narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands and nineteenth-century California. Through mass-market paperbacks distributed across the Spanish-speaking world, Mallorquí's novels offered readers a heroic Mexican protagonist operating against the dominant Anglo-American mythology of the frontier. Archive consists of ten paperback volumes published by Editorial Bruguera in Barcelona between 1968 and 1970 as part of the publisher's El Coyote series, all featuring dramatic illustrated covers by Antonio Bernal. [1] Mallorquí, José. El exterminio de la Calavera. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 10. [2] Mallorquí, José. El final de la lucha. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 17. [3] Mallorquí, José. La ley de los vigilantes. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 28. [4] Mallorquí, José. Una sombra en Capistrano. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 36. [5] Mallorquí, José. Mensajero de paz. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. Collection El Coyote No. 39. [6] Mallorquí, José. La última bala. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 76. [7] Mallorquí, José. El regreso de Analupe. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 78. [8] Mallorquí, José. Muerte: punto de destino. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 89. [9] Mallorquí, José. Apostando su vida. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 96. [10] Mallorquí, José. Sierra Blanca. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. Collection El Coyote No. 99. The brightly colored cover illustrations depict masked riders, gunfights, desert landscapes, ranch settings, and armed confrontations characteristic of mid-century pulp Western aesthetics while centering Mexican and Californio protagonists rather than Anglo frontier heroes. These Bruguera editions demonstrate the continued commercial circulation of the El Coyote mythology decades after its original publication through inexpensive paperbacks marketed throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The El Coyote novels occupy an important position within Spanish-language popular literature and transnational Western fiction, particularly for their reframing of California history through Mexican and Californio perspectives largely absent from mainstream Anglo-American Westerns of the same period. Their continued republication in the late 1960s and early 1970s coincided with expanding interest in Chicano identity, Mexican-American history, and revisionist interpretations of the American West. The archive also documents the role of Editorial Bruguera in disseminating popular Spanish-language fiction across Europe and Latin America through durable mass-market pulp distribution networks. Seven volumes remain in good to very good condition with light edge wear and mild page toning typical of pulp paper; La última bala, Una sombra en Capistrano, and El regreso de Analupe exhibit heavier handling wear including creasing, scuffing, ink ownership markings, and blue marker annotations to covers. All volumes intact with no loose pages observed. Overall condition ranges from good to very good. A substantial grouping from one of the most influential Spanish-language Western series of the twentieth century, documenting alternative literary interpretations of the California frontier and Mexican resistance within popular culture.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star seller[El Coyote] Ten Spanish pulp western paperbacks from Editorial Bruguera's El Coyote series, 1968 to 1971, documenting Editorial Bruguera's late Franco era recirculation of José Mallorquí's El Coyote, the masked Californio avenger first introduced in 1943. The group preserves ten small format Bruguera issues priced at 10 pesetas,… with cover art credited in the books to Antonio Bernal and narratives set in a Spanish imagined California of hidden lineage, vigilante justice, romance, inheritance conflict, political violence, and frontier law. Mallorquí's hero, don César de Echagüe, enters these books through a recurring double structure of public aristocratic identity and masked intervention, a pattern that connects the series to Zorro, Spanish adventure fiction, and later Latinx literary concerns with cultural survival, passing, secrecy, and resistance under hostile legal orders. Mallorquí, J. El Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968 to 1971. Ten illustrated paperback volumes in pictorial wrappers, each with color cover illustration, interior title art, printed title page, and copyright page. Seven are first Bruguera collection editions. [1] La esposa de don César. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1968. [2] De tal palo. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1969. [3] El charro de las Calaveras. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1969. [4] Los hombres mueren al anochecer. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [5] El hombre de ningún sitio. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [6] Los hijastros del odio. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [7] El aullido del Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1970. [8] El último de los siete. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. [9] A la caza del Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. [10] El diablo, Murrieta y el Coyote. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, 1971. Mallorquí's El Coyote was one of the longest running Spanish popular western series of the twentieth century, and Bruguera's 1968 to 1971 edition shows how the character remained commercially active after the first postwar wave of Spanish pulp publishing. These copies retain the repeated Bruguera design system: author and price across the head, large red series title, compressed action painting below, and numbered spines that made the books legible as sequential mass market fiction. The stories visible here repeatedly turn on concealed identity, disputed authority, family alliance, and public violence, with chapter openings such as "Domingo por la mañana," "El asesinato es siempre un delito," "Un ruego del Coyote," and "La marca de los cobardes" framing the series as a moral and political western rather than a simple gunfighter cycle. Covers and spines rubbed and creased, with toning, scattered staining, owner and price marks, small losses, and tape repairs to several volumes; interiors toned but readable. Overall fair to good condition. A compact run of Bruguera El Coyote paperbacks showing how Spanish popular publishing recast California frontier conflict through masked identity, romance, inheritance, and vigilante justice.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerMallorquí, José. El Coyote. These mid-twentieth century Spanish-language pulp narratives document the adaptation of the Western genre within Hispanic literary traditions, centering a Californio protagonist navigating questions of class, colonization, and identity in nineteenth-century Alta California. Published between 1945 and…1946, the series follows César de Echagüe, a landowner who assumes the masked identity of El Coyote to intervene in social injustice, drawing from earlier archetypes such as Zorro while articulating a distinct Spanish-speaking heroic tradition. The stories engage themes of land ownership, political authority, and resistance, situating the figure of El Coyote within a narrative structure that reflects both European and American influences while addressing audiences in Spain and Latin America. The archive provides primary evidence of how Western narratives were reinterpreted through a Hispanic lens during the mid-twentieth century, contributing to broader discussions of cultural identity and popular literature. Mallorquí, José. El Coyote. Barcelona: Cliper, 1945-1946. Ten issues bound in two volumes. Spanish language. Archive includes: [1] No. 22 Tras la Máscara del Coyote (1945); [2] No. 23 El Diablo en Los Angeles (1945); [3] No. 24 La Esposa de Don César (1945); [4] No. 25 La Hacienda Trágica (1945); [5] No. 27 Los Jarrones del Virrey (1945); [6] No. 28 Al Servicio del Coyote (1945); [7] No. 29 La Ley de los Vigilantes (1946); [8] No. 30 Toda una Señora (1946); [9] No. 31 El Secreto de Maise Syer (1946); [10] No. 32 Rapto (1946). Each issue issued with illustrated wrappers and interior title art, later bound into two volumes. Narratives across the series include plotlines involving impostors, land disputes, feuds between families, political corruption, kidnapping, and the maintenance of El Coyote's concealed identity. Settings range from Los Ángeles and San Francisco to rural haciendas and mining regions, with recurring characters navigating personal and political tensions within a frontier environment. These works were produced during a period when pulp publishing expanded access to serialized fiction for mass readership, particularly among working- and middle-class audiences in Spain and Latin America. The figure of El Coyote operates within this format as both an entertainment figure and a symbolic response to dominant Anglo-American Western narratives, repositioning the Californio experience within the genre. The archive reflects the transnational circulation of Spanish-language popular fiction and its role in shaping cultural memory and identity. Bound volumes with original wrappers retained; toning, edgewear, and some chipping and creasing to individual issues; text blocks intact and legible; bindings loose with wear at joints and spines, including tape reinforcement to one volume; overall fair to good condition. The collection supports research into Latinx literary history, popular print culture, and reinterpretations of the Western genre.
