Author: MILLER, Ann D.
Title: Matadors of Mexico
Description: Globe, AZ, Dale Stuart King, 1961. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harold A. Wolfinbarger Jr. Small 4to. Brown pictorial glazed cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 307pp. Numerous illustrations, line drawings, map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips, mainly at head and tail of spine. First edition as tight and handsome as these matador's pants. Biographies of these famed Mexican bullfighters, with a choice autograph addition: Tipped to the half-title page is a 3½" X 2" heavy card boldly signed and inscribed by one of this book's subjects in black ink: "afectuosamente de / su amigo / Manuel Capetillo." Capetillo (1926-2009) is the fifth matador profiled in this well-known chronicle (pp. 75-87). Most unusual. .

Keywords: bull fighting Sports


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