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Published by Random House, New York, 1969
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxii+119 pages with appendix. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's beige cloth with gilt and black lettering in original jacket. First edition. This is a short and poignant account of how the poor die-of the death of Aunt Guadalupe, and of her funeral, to which the members of the Sanchez family come as mourners. Condition: Corners bumped. Jacket lightly soiled else a better than very good copy in like jacket.
Published by Basic Books Inc, Publishers, New York, 1959
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. xiii+351 pages with drawings and bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt and silver lettering to spine over pink boards decorated in green in original pictorial jacket. Foreword by Oliver La Farge. First edition, second printing. One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, "Five Families" is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live. Condition: Lightly soiled, spine extremities heavily rubbed, some sunning of spine. Jacket soiled, spine lightly chipped at heal. Jacket 1/4" chips at head else about very good in like jacket.