Matadors of Mexico.
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. Item #32929
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.
Price: $75.00