LÓPEZ Y FUENTES, Gregorio. They That Reap
LÓPEZ Y FUENTES, Gregorio. They That Reap. Trans. from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. Illustrated by Diego Rivera. London: George G. Harrap. 1937. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the rare dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and about fine but for some gentle toning within. The dust jacket with printed price of 3/6 net (stamped), clipped at corner, with remnants of reprice sticker above. Light stain to the spine foot, light marks and some toning elsewhere, with corners and tips a trifle nicked and rubbed. Uncommon.
López worked in his father's general store in Mexico as a boy, meeting many Indians and peasants who had been squeezed by the government and eventual dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Self-educated, this early insight into the truly downtrodden inspired him to write of his people's suffering, and in turn, his early work became a sort of basis for the Mexican Revolution. This particular novel won the inaugural Mexican Prize Novel.
LÓPEZ Y FUENTES, Gregorio. They That Reap. Trans. from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. Illustrated by Diego Rivera. London: George G. Harrap. 1937. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the rare dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and about fine but for some gentle toning within. The dust jacket with printed price of 3/6 net (stamped), clipped at corner, with remnants of reprice sticker above. Light stain to the spine foot, light marks and some toning elsewhere, with corners and tips a trifle nicked and rubbed. Uncommon.
López worked in his father's general store in Mexico as a boy, meeting many Indians and peasants who had been squeezed by the government and eventual dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Self-educated, this early insight into the truly downtrodden inspired him to write of his people's suffering, and in turn, his early work became a sort of basis for the Mexican Revolution. This particular novel won the inaugural Mexican Prize Novel.
LÓPEZ Y FUENTES, Gregorio. They That Reap. Trans. from the Spanish by Anita Brenner. Illustrated by Diego Rivera. London: George G. Harrap. 1937. 8vo. First English language edition. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the rare dust jacket. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean and about fine but for some gentle toning within. The dust jacket with printed price of 3/6 net (stamped), clipped at corner, with remnants of reprice sticker above. Light stain to the spine foot, light marks and some toning elsewhere, with corners and tips a trifle nicked and rubbed. Uncommon.
López worked in his father's general store in Mexico as a boy, meeting many Indians and peasants who had been squeezed by the government and eventual dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Self-educated, this early insight into the truly downtrodden inspired him to write of his people's suffering, and in turn, his early work became a sort of basis for the Mexican Revolution. This particular novel won the inaugural Mexican Prize Novel.