Leslie Cortes (28 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover, dust jacket, the jacket is a little stuck to the top edge of the hardcover. Signs of age and wear. We ship fast.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition. Clean text, few breaks in the spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good++. 1961. First edition. Book is in VG++ condition, unmarked very clean tight and bright. Very Prompt shipping with tracking.

First Edition. Early guide to this charming Mexican city, first edition, as it looked before the hordes descended. 6 x 8, 88 + 12 pp, b/w photos, frontispiece map. Good Plus w small owner stamp inside else unmarked, lightly soiled wraps w some writing on rear panel, small taped tear on rear panel, contents Very Good. Trade Paperback in plain printed wraps. …

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 127 Pages. Tan cloth with black and green lettering on the spine and front board. Remarkably good condition. Pages are tight, white, and bright. Illustrated on almost every page with black and white photographs plus a hand drawn map. Laid in is a 1960 brochure touting Hotel Victoria which includes a map. Also laid in is a single onion sheet titled Brief Historia of the Casa Figuero. This palace was built in the middle of the 18th century by Count Cadena and was used as his residence and finished in 1767. This is an interesting history of the palace that once was called House of Tears. From the Foreword - This book presents information which interests and instructs the tourist who has neither time nor inclination to browse through heavy historical tomes written in Spanish. Sources are credited to the work of Manuel Toussaint, whose book, called Tasco, was published in 1931 and various old manuscripts kept in the archives of the church of Santa Prisca. It is unfortunate that many valuable records were destroyed in the revolution of 1910. Lesson 1 Pronounce is Tas-co. Should you go around saying Tax-co. the quidnuncs will raise their eyebrows and put you down as one who has not met the fascinating Aztec, Mr. X' which is nearly always pronounced the same as our own beautiful English S. So, children, remember that the Aztec "X" is merely our S in disguise. It is best to look wise, keep silent and wait for some Mexican to say it first. In order to make this uncertain "x" easier to conquer, the name Taxco hereafter will be spelled Tasco. Contents: Foreword, How to Get To Tasco, Accomodations, Modern Tasco What To See, The Art Studios, Brief history of Tasco, Items of General Interest, What writers Say of Tasco, and Various Views of Tasco. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Tasco, the Enchanted City: A Handbook for Tourists. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth. 127pp. Numerous illustrations, map. Very good. Third edition. Entertaining guide to this historical Mexican city.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Taxco School of Art, Published 1959. Hardcover, 148 pp.; 22 cm; imprint "Printed in Mexico, Dec. 1960" on title-page verso with date corrected in ink to "59"; illustrated with full-page line drawings. Introduction by H. Allen Smith; illustrations by Dr. Juan B. Meana. In Good condition, no dust jacket. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt drawing of tourists on front, lettering on spine; mild to moderate shelf and edge wear, scattered spotting and soiling to both covers, some scuffing and soiling to lettering. Binding tight. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper ("With a smile - Leslie C. de Figueroa."). Endpapers mildly toned; pages otherwise unmarked. Comic novel of the American colony in Taxco, published in English by the Taxco School of Art, which the author's husband, Fidel Figueroa, founded. The narrator, a New York writer and self-confessed stuffed shirt, is brought to Taxco by his wife and daughter to house-sit for an archaeologist aunt, and resists the town for most of the book. Real Taxco people and places appear among the invented characters: William Spratling, the earlier art school of the Japanese painter Tamiji Kitagawa, Juan O'Gorman's mosaic mural at the Posada de la Mision, and the illustrator Dr. Juan B. Meana himself, cast as the town's society doctor. In his introduction, the humorist H. Allen Smith names the author the nicest person in Taxco and recalls that she and her husband once owned Paco's Bar. Meana's drawings caricature tourists, burros and residents. Contents: Pulled Up by the Roots; We Look at a City; Secrets of an Emperor; A Hilltown and New Friends; Archeology and Romance; Dining Out and a Telephone Call; Big Game Hunting (Husbands); Little Pink Pigs and Strange Americans; Blonde Baroness and the Wandering Smiths; Artists, Writers, Musicians, Singers; The Foreign Colony She-Wolves; Nudes and Screwballs; Haciendas and Disturbing Mail; Sanitation a la Snooks; Mr. Spratling and Acapulco; Fireworks and Farewells; Cocktails and Confessions; New York and Old Friends; I Lose My Bet. Signed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Taxco, Guerrero: Leslie C. de Figueroa, 1965. Hardcover bound in maize-colored cloth stamped in green and gilt. 127 pages, illustrated with black & white halftones. No marks or writing to the book. However, at rear of book, the end-papers have discolored from laid-in newspaper clippings by columnist Virginia Safford regarding San Miguel de Allende, resulting in browned off-setting. Otherwise Fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. 86 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. ; grey decorated cloth. Gift inscription in blue ballpoint dated July 1958 on front pastedown. Pasted-in author's apologia label for errors on front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st. 165pp.; HB dk.gray w/blue; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. "The characters in the book are nine tenths imaginary and one tenth composites, amalgamated from people and events covering many years." illus. Meana, Dr. Juan B. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SIGNED AND DATED BY LESLIE CORTES DE FIGUEROA as follows: "Hoping you will enjoy our / quaint hill-town as much as / we do-- / Sincerely-- / Leslie C. de Figueroa / July, 1956 / Taxco - Gro. / Mexico." 8vo. (21 CM.) 86p. Plus 36p.of black and white captioned photos. Double-page map of Tasco at the front. Grey cloth decorated in green, black and gilt and with a vignette in green and guilt of the church in Tasco [Taxco] on the front cover. Just hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean, letters and glt bright, illustrations in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings No dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Third Edition. Octavo, [21.25cm/8.5inches], full gilt/green-embossed maize-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 127. Illustrated with b-w halftones &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. For most of the colonial period, the area was sparsely populated, including the town of Taxco itself.which was governed as a dependency of Mexico City. When the modern state of Guerrero was created in 1850, Taxco was chosen to be the seat of the municipality. Silversmithing and tourism were reinvigorated in Taxco by American William Spratling, who settled there in the 1920s, creating silver design workshops and exported items, mostly to the United States. With its fame for silversmithing, tourism became a major economic force in Taxco. In exceptionally good condition.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 166 pages; Description: 166 p. illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Taxco (Mexico) --Fiction. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 166 pages; Description: 166 p. illus. 22 cm. Subjects: Taxco (Mexico) --Fiction. 1 Kg. …

Original-Broschur. 196 Seiten mit zahlreichen, zum Teil farbigen Abbildungen. Gutes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Textsauber und aus einem Nichtraucherhaushalt. Dieses Exemplar stammt aus der Bibliothek von Dr. Volker Hellmann, ehemaliger Dozent am Fachbereich Biologie der Universität Konstanz. // Original paperback. With numerous, partly colored illustrations. Good copy with only slight signs of wear. Clean text and from a non-smoking household. This copy comes from the library of Dr. Volker Hellmann, former lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Konstanz. Sprache: Englisch.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-printed cloth, with gilt-decorated vignette to front board. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes apology label from the author regarding proofreading errors made by printers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages; Description: 88 p. illus., port., map. 21 cm. Subjects: Taxco, Mexico -- guidebooks. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original title-printed cloth, with gilt-decorated vignette to front board. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Includes apology label from the author regarding proofreading errors made by printers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages; Description: 88 p. illus., port., map. 21 cm. Subjects: Taxco, Mexico -- guidebooks. 1 Kg.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.