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Scarce. VG- Red card wrappers with white titles and decorative motif on cover. (Two volume set). Texto en espanol. Mexico: Secretaria de educacion, 1984 (2nd edition 60th anniversary reprint of the original 1924-25 editions). 4to. 334 pp.; 396 pp. Woodcut illus.; color plates (about 14). These are the first school readers of modern, post-revolutionary Mexico under the supervision and advisement of Jose Vasconcelos, the first Minister of Education of modern Mexico. Copious illustrations and woodcuts were prepared by (or under the supervision of) print-maker Montenegro y Fernandez Ledesma. Vol. 1 contains selections from Asian and Mediterranean texts, including the Upanishads, Vedas, Panchatabra, the Legend of Buddha, the poetry of Tagore, the Illiad and the Odyssey, the Bible, 1001 Nights, and Greek myths, translated and prepared by prominent early 20th century Latin American and Mexican authors (Gabriela Mistral, Palma Guillen, Salvador Novo, and Jose Gorostiza). Vol. II contains selections from Europe including El Cid, Don Quixote, King Lear, Parsifal; but more germane to the mass education goals of the Mexican revolutionary government, texts from the Americas: Mesoamerican myths, Spanish conquest narratives, and relations of Independence movements of the 19th century. Like volume I, the texts in Vol. II were translated or prepared by prominent Mexico intellectuals (Jaime Torres Bodet, Francisco Garcia Icazbalceta, Javier Villarrutia, and Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano). Pages moderately age-toned; some edge wear to covers--but books are square & tight without tears. Ships on same or next business day in secure packaging with tracking/delivery confirmation. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers W06-NMTY7-045
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