Mexican Kaleidoscope
by Wright, Norman Pelham
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
CA$31.15CA$15.57
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1947. Norman Wright, F.R.G.S. was military attache to the Mexican government during the war. This is no mere travel book, but a condensed, documented, compactly reasoned book of fact, dealing with Mexican racial problems, industries, politics, art, architecture and fauna. Frontispiece is a photograph of "Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, looking from Chapultepec towards the city centre". Foreword by the author. The seven chapters conclude with an appendix and index. The appendix offers "Works on Mexico (other than novels) by British authors in chronological order". A generous list of illustrations provided. 24 pages of illustrations. B/w photographs are on heavier semi-gloss stock. Black boards with silver decoration to front board and silver title print to spine. Off-setting to endpapers. No ownership markings. A sound copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B044
- Title
- Mexican Kaleidoscope
- Author
- Wright, Norman Pelham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Mexico-Industry-Politics-Art-Culture-Fauna
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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