Starr Frederick Compiler Translator (1 results)

First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g. 29 woodcut vignette portraits. An anthology of 29 contemporary Mexican authors in English translation, with brief biographies of each writer, accompanied by a vignette woodcut portrait. In the preface the compiler and translator Frederick Starr explains his method and intention: "It has not been easy to devise a definite plan of arrangement for my selections, but the matter is roughly grouped in the following order: Geography, History, Biography, Public Questions, Literature, Drama, Narrative, Fiction. One demand, made of all the material, is that it shall show Mexico, Mexican life, Mexican thought. Every selection is Mexican in topic and in color: together the selections form a series of Mexican pictures painted by Mexican hands. Bookplate of the Minnesota Historical Society on the front paste-down, with traces of their paper shelf-label on the spine. Edges slightly worn; small tear in the gutter of the title-page, without loss; very good copy.