Essays on the Mexican Constitution from LA
Al margen de la Constitución de 1917
Notes: A collection of essays critical of the Mexican constitution, originally published in the Revista mexicana, a Spanish-language weekly in San Antonio, Texas.
Vera Estañol was for a time an education minister in Mexico, during the Huerta administration. He went into exile in Los Angeles for a number of years, publishing several anti-Carranza works, including this one. By the 1930s, he was back in Mexico and president of the national bar association.
This is an example of the literature of the Mexican Revolution published by writers in exile in the United States. Most revolutionarly material was published in Texas, and this book, having first appeared there, suggests the influence the Spanish-language publishers had even as far west as Los Angeles.
ix, 251 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). Pages foxed, else very good in green cloth (no dust jacket). This copy is inscribed by the author to his daughter on the anniversary of Mexican independence: "Los Angeles, 16 de septiembre de 1920. A mi muy amiada hija Enriqueta. Jorge Vera Estañol."
Publication: Los Angeles: Wayside Press, [1920].
Item No: #35517
Price: $125