LATIN AMERICA. Land of Contrasts.
Puente, Calfornia: Latin American Village. La Puente Valley Journal Print. (1947). 1st Edition. Not found on OCLC. 16 page explanatory text booklet accompanies. 21 color serigraph images, including title leaf. Folio: 20" x 13". Plates in landscape format. Portfolio of blue quarter leather over black paper wrapped boards. Gilt stamped title label to front cover. Portfolio - modest signs of wear, VG+. Booklet with age-toning & signs of use, VG. Plates: Generally VG- VG+, though the title leaf has faint tide mark to lower right fore-edge. Item #52244
"By this title we mean that in this picture series we have shown the Latin America countries, not in contrast to our own land nor to emphasize the difference between rich and poor, worker or landowner. It is rather that many of these countries have missed an entire era -- that of the railroad -- and have leaped at once from the ox cart to the plane and from the candle to electricity with no intermediate stage as we had. The most ancient customs may exist in the same land with the modern and the two worlds overlap and continue side by side. ... It would be unfair in the case of Uraguay, for example, to show these highly civilized people as 'natives.' On the other hand, the prosperous upper class of Lima would surely not be typical of Perú." [Introduction].
Countries included in the term 'Latin America' are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Eduador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela.
A quite uncommon set documenting the South America of the mid-20th C., over 75 years ago.
Price: $975.00