Bullfighting (20 results)

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 8 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 5 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 17 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

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Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Bulls & Bullfighting.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Poster, printed in black and red on yellow paper. 500x325mm. Folded and creased, short tears and pin-holes to corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. Stamped on the ffep is "Edicion Limitada Num 237. 1st printing thus of the 1960 edition of the attractive Ortega printing catalogs specializing in bullfighting prints, posters, bills, tickets, etc. 40 leaves (80pp) with some items such as Prospectos & Billetes displayed as partially tipped on. The glue of the binding of this copy has dried and is separated from the binding. Several plates (leaves) also loose because of the dried glue. Still a remarkable item which, because of the fine condition of the plates, we grade overall "good", and recommend for anyone interested in the print/graphics of bullfighting in Spain.

Poster, 440 x 205 mm. on purple paper, a little creased. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. The French corrida rarely leads to injuries to the bulls; the skill being in snatching rosettes from their horns. This one still takes place in the old Roman arena in Arles; I attended one in the early 1970s but remember little of it after a convivial dinner earlier in the evening!

Cuban broadside advertising a bullfight featuring matador Don Manuel Rodriguez Lanza and the "8 toros de muerte." The top of the sheet features a woodcut of a matador holding his cape out to a bull. The first swordsman for the fight is Manuel Diaz Lavi, with two alternates listed. The names of the Banderilleros and Picadores for the fight are also noted. Bullfighting was a popular entertainment in Cuba during the Spanish colonial period, though it was done away with after Cuban independence at the beginning of the 20th century. Broadside, 12½ × 8 inches. Printed on green paper. Old fold lines. Light wear and soiling, minor separation at some folds. A few contemporary notations. Very good.

Folio broadside (310 x 435 mm), a grid of 48 woodblock printed scenes, some captioned; lightly browned with a tiny paper flaw at the left margin at the image, but no loss. . Scarce pictorial narrative of a bullfight. This takes the form of an auca, a comic-like art form particularly popular in Catalonia. It depicts the stages of a bullfight: the opening ceremony and procession, the introduction of the bull, the various combative methods, and the bull's eventual demise. Strikingly dynamic, the images evoke the movement through the air of the picadors and matadors as they are tossed around by the bull before it meets its end. The Piferrer publishing house was established by Juan Piferrer in the early 18th century and ran until 1868. (Amades 84).

A scarce suite of photographs showing the world of Costa Rican bullfighting in the mid-20th century, all taken by the photographer Jose Valverde. Though Costa Rican bullfighting currently differs from the Spanish variety in that the aim is to only dodge the bulls and not to kill them, the form practiced here appears to be more in line with the Spanish version, with many of the bulls shown with spears protruding from them as they charge the bullfighters. Notably, four photographs show women bullfighters, notable as this was the period when women first worked as bullfighters. Overall an uncommon survival. Silver gelatin photographs, 8 x 10 inches. Some with inscriptions to the photographer, Jose Valverde, by the various bullfighers. Near fine with minimal wear.

8 sets of autographs laid down to album leaves, including original envelopes, numerous photo reproductions and newspaper clippings. Fine collection of autographs by great bullfighters, assembled by the young Uruguayan nobleman Alejandro Zorrilla de San Martin (1909-87; Foreign Affairs Minister from 1963 to 1965 and grandson of José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín, the National Poet of Uruguay) by direct application. Rafael Guerra Bejarano (1862-1941), known as "Guerrita", signs a three-line inscription (8 Oct. 1923), as does Rodolfo Gaona Jiménez (1888-1975, signs 25 July 1925). Marcial Lalanda del Pino (1903-90), immortalized in Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon", signs a nine-line dedication on 1 June 1926, while his cousin Pablo Lalanda Gutiérrez (1902-1936) signs the illustrated card on May 12. Ricardo Torres Reina (1879-1936), known as "Bombita", signs on 31 May 1922; Vicente Pastor y Durán, "El Chico de la blusa" (1879-1966), writes a four-line inscription on 28 July 1931. Diego Mazquiarán Torrontegui "Fortuna" (1895-1940) sends his admirer a five-line inscription on 28 April 1928. Antonio Cañero Baena (1885-1952) sends a six-line signed inscription and includes a signed original photograph (undated, but July/August 1926).

Broadside. Broadside. 9-1/4" x 12-1/4." Printing on recto only. Old folds with closed tears starting at the folds; some chipping; paper is toned. In fair to good condition. Fragile. A broadside announcement for a bullfight in Juarez, Mexico. The announcement is in both Spanish and English. Curiously it announces this as a farewell fight but names two teens: Manolito and Joselito, 13 and 15 respectively. Also noting that no horses will be used. An interesting artifact that is clearly aimed at both Ciudad Juarez and El Paso across the river.