Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
by Oscar Lewis, born Lefkowitz (1914-1970)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
lvii+507 pages with frontispiece, drawings by Alberto Beltran and appendix. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black cloth in original pictorial jacket. Second printing. Pedro Martinez is a Mexican peasant over seventy. This is the story of his life and of the lives of his wife and children, told in his own words and from time to time, in theirs. Condition: Spine rubbed at head and heal, slight rubbing at corner. Jacket badly chipped at spine, corners and torn on back cover, soiled else about very good in a good jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS000066
- Title
- Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family
- Author
- Oscar Lewis, born Lefkowitz (1914-1970)
- Illustrator
- Alberto Beltran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- MEXICO PEASANTS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology;
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....