A Complete Bullfight with Pictures in Full Color [Una Corrida de Toros con Graficas a Colores]

A COMPLETE BULLFIGHT WITH PICTURES IN FULL COLOR [UNA CORRIDA DE TOROS CON GRAFICAS A COLORES], Jose Candido, with paintings of each element of the classic bullfight by famous artists, stated 2nd edition, softcover, bilingual text (English/Spanish), circa 1950. BOOK CONDITION: very good. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The illustrated wraps are in good condition (a few spots and smudges). 6 ½ x 4 ½, 47 pages, 7 ounces. [From the text] PROLOGUE. The printer, Telesforo ABOITIZ, who during the last quarter of a century has done almost all of the printed publicity concerning bull-fights in Mexico, has been frequently requested to edit a booklet with the most colorful pictures of his collection, consisting of the masterpieces of the most famous and skillful of the Spanish and Mexican Painters who have specially dedicated their art and craft to immortalize the most famous moments of the bull-fight; this booklet has the double purpose of compiling these beautiful pictures and, at the same time, instructing the people who for the first time attend a bull-fight, furnishing them information as to the order of the performance and the names and origin of the different acts, all of this given in the simplest and least technical language. XX PROLOGO. La Imprenta ABOITIZ, que durante veinticinco años ha venido haciendo casi todos los trabajos que con la publicidad del espectáculo taurino se relacionan, en la República Mexicana, ha accedido a la petición que reiteradamente le ha sido hecha de reunir en un pequeño y manuable folleto algunos de los más bellos cuadros al óleo de su colección, formada con encargos a los más famosos pintores especialistas en toros de México y de España; este libreto tiene el doble propósito de ofrecer a los amantes de la fiesta una colección de las estampas .más Ilenas de color de esos notables pintores, y de facilitar a quienes por primera vez se acercan a este maravilloso espectåculo la comprensión de su sentido y su orden, asi como el nombre y el origen de las principales suertes, descritas en el lenguaje más sencillo y menos técnico posible.…