Thorn Books

Mexican Folk Retablos (Signed)

Giffords, Gloria Kay

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1974). First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Item #17312

Oblong 4to. 160pp. Photographs by Helga Teiwes-French. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color. Original blue cloth blocked with titles in silver; grey endpapers. A near fine copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped; it is lightly rubbed in places else a very good copy. Warmly inscribed on the half-title by the author: "Something very Special -- for my special people ... " Important resource on Spanish Colonial art. Later reprinted by the University of New Mexico in a different format, copies of this first printing by the UofA are becoming hard to find.

Price: $200.00