From Vintage Books and Fine Art, Oxford, MD, U.S.A. Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 26 March 2021
8vo. A scarce 1941 1st Edition of this biography of this still influential Mexican revolution radical. Yellow illustrated cloth. 332pp. Square tight binding. Clean interior. Illustrated map endpapers. Offsetting to end papers. Mild rubbing and edge wear to binding with a touch off light soiling. Dust jacket with mild rubbing and edge wear, including the paper remnants of a previous mylar cover adhered to the edges. Presents handsomely in modern archival mylar. A handsome edition of a scarce title devoted to an important 20th century revolutionary. Seller Inventory # 16028
Title: Zapata the Unconquerable
Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York
Publication Date: 1941
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+
Edition: 1st Edition.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 1st edition. 332p. Seller Inventory # 31235
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends, wear to the cover corners, shallow dings to the cover edges, two small spots to the front cover, smudging to the edges of the text block with a spot to the tail, a few faint smudges throughout the text, and a previous owner's information penciled to the second to last page. Overall, a solid, Near Very Good copy in a Good+, clipped dust jacket, which has bumps with chips to the spine ends, a short tear to the head of the front hinge, light wear to the cover corners, short tears to the edges, rubbing with a few stains to the covers, sunning to the spine, and a creased tear to the tail of the inner front flap. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar. Seller Inventory # 206569
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: PLAZA BOOKS ABAA, Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.
First edition. Octavo, x, 332. With frontis. portrait of Zapata. Decorative map endpapers. An early -- perhaps the first -- biography (heavily fictionalized) of this important figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - 21. Dust jacket is price-clipped, but otherwise in very nice condition and preserved in plastic jacket protector. Pinchon also wrote the popular Viva Villa! Purported a major source for the Steinbeck screenplay of the film Viva Zapata, with Marlon Brando as Zapata. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 6637
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1941, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover. Frontispiece portrait of Emiliano Zapata, a "biography of a great leader in the Mexican revolution of 1910," this was undoubtedly a source book for John Steinbeck in his writing the screenplay for Viva Zapata!, map endpapers, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne nor Morrow. Fine in a very good jacket. Seller Inventory # JD5865
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). Octavo. Frontispiece portrait. Pictorial endpapers: State of Morelos. Dust jacket (price clipped; few nicks and chips). Very good. 332 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed at The Country Life Press, Garden City, New York. Seller Inventory # 2222514
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Royal Books, Inc., ABAA, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition. First Edition. Basis for the 1952 Western "Viva Zapata!" starring Marlon Brando, directed by Elia Kazan, and written by John Steinbeck. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Boards slightly warped, with light offsetting on the pastedowns. Jacket lightly rubbed, with an evenly faded spine panel and brief wear at the corners. Seller Inventory # 160320
Quantity: 1 available