El Hombre Libre de America: Un Augurio para la Postguerra

PADILLA, Ezequiel

Verlag: Nuevo Mundo, Mexico City, 1943

Beschreibung

8vo. Burgundy leatherette with gilt spine lettering. 288pp. Very good. Binding quite faintly edgeworn; internally tight, with text block mildly age toned. First edition of this commentary (entirely in Spanish) whose title translates as "The Free Man of America: A Postwar Vision." On the half-title page, he inscribes and signs large and bold in blue ink: "To Mr Schuster, / with best wishes / E Padilla." Padilla (1890-1971) was a Mexican statesman and politician who held many high-level offices: attorney general, secretary of public education, ambassador to Hungary, secretary of foreign affairs and others; in 1946 he ran for the Mexican presidency. Recipient was Edward James Schuster (1908-98), a noted Iowa professor of foreign languages and prolific writer on educational topics; heavily involved in Latin American affairs, he was often a visiting professor of history and political science at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City, which may well be where he met Padilla. His bookplate appears on the front pastedown, blind-embossed ownership name on front flyleaf and, amusingly, he signs a Latinized version of his name ("Eduardo Santiago Schuster"), dating it 1945, on an inner flyleaf. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 48816

Bibliografische Details

Titel: El Hombre Libre de America: Un Augurio para ...

Verlag: Nuevo Mundo, Mexico City

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage