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Bullfighting

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1 Arruza, Carlos with Barnaby Conrad MY LIFE AS A MATADOR: The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza.
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1956 Second printing Cloth-backed boards Very Good Very Good Jacket 
pp: (vii), 246; illus throughout text from photographs. 8.5" x 5.75" Mexico's Carlos Arruza is considered one of the great matadors of all time. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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2 Bullfight broadside CAMPO PEQUENO ARENA ... SPECIAL BULL FIGHT: In Honor of the U.S. Fleet, Commander Admiral Cassady ... Sunday, 5th of October, 1952.
Lisbon, Portugal Costa Sanches 1952 First Edition Very Good 
Broadside, printed in full color, with picture of matador fighting bull. 11.5" x 5.5" Program: 9 of the Wildest Bulls 9 of Claudio Moura ... Bullfighting Horsemen ... Portugueses Matadores Joaquim Marques and Francisco Mendes ...." 
Price: 15.00 USD
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3 Bullfight broadside EL COLISEO...EMPRESA: FERNANDO D. SILVA...DOMINGO 7 DE MAYO DE 1939...MONUMENTAL CORRIDA! CARTEL DE ORO A PRECIOS ECONOMICOS!
Aguascalientes, Mexico Eugenio Alvarado 1939 First Edition Very Good 
Broadside, small piece torn from top margin (no text loss); 17 illus from photographs. "Grandiosa Reaparicion de los Maravillosos Pequenos Toreros. Juanito Vela, Pepe Vela y Manolo Torres." Text continues in Spanish. Admission prices are in dollars and cents: for women and children, $1.00 in the shade or 75 cents in the sun. The photographic illustrations include eight views of bulls, captioned by name and number, and nine portraits of matadors, pecadors and bandilleros. 23.5" x 7.75" 
Price: 50.00 USD
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4 Bullfight broadside TOROS EN PALMA COLISEO BALEAR... 15 Agosto 1955...Enorme Corrida de Toros....
Palma, Spain Homar 1955 First Edition Very Good 
Broadside, printed on pink paper, with two vignettes of bullfighting scenes. Except for old fold lines and two tiny pin marks, this fragile broadside is in excellent condition for display. 17" x 8.25" 
Price: 50.00 USD
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5 Cintron, Lola Verrill GODDESS OF THE BULLRING: The Story of Conchita Cintron, the World's Greatest Matadora.
Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill 1960 First Edition Cloth-backed boards Very Good Very Good Jacket 
349 pp; 16pp illus from photographs. 9" x 6" The diminutive Conchita, born in Peru to a West Pointer and his well-bred wife, began fighting bulls in the arena at age 13. 
Price: 12.50 USD
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6 Conrad, Barnaby ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BULLFIGHTING
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1961 First Edition Pictorial cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket 
pp: 269, (1) bibliography; illus throughout from photographs and a few drawings by Roberto Domingo. Price-clipped dust jacket. 10" x 7" 
Price: 25.00 USD
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7 Conrad, Barnaby GATES OF FEAR: Great Exploits of the World's Bullrings.
NY Bonanza 1957 Reprint Pictorial Boards Very Good Good Jacket 
pp: (ix), 337, index; illus throughout text from photographs and drawings. First published by Thomas Y. Crowell. Chipped dust jacket. 10.25" x 7.5" 
Price: 15.00 USD
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8 Conrad, Barnaby LA FIESTA BRAVA: The Art of the Bull Ring.
Boston Houghton Mifflin 1953 Sixth Printing Original Cloth Very Good Good Jacket 
pp: (v), 184; illus from 234 photographs. 10.25" x 7" 
Price: 15.00 USD
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9 Daley, Robert THE SWORDS OF SPAIN: With Photographs by the Author.
NY Dial Press 1966 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good Good Jacket 
239pp; double-column text, illus throughout from photographs, some in color. Dust jacket chipped at top of spine and mended. 10.25" x 7.5" Daley supplements his trenchant account of bullfights with 200 of his photographs. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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10 Ibanez, Vicente Blasco THE BLOOD OF THE ARENA. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Douglas. Illustrations in color by Troy & Margaret West Kinney.
Chicago A.C. McClurg 1911 First Edition Original Cloth Good Jacket 
386pp; complete with four color plates. Binding smudged, with light shelf wear. 8.25" x 5.25" Quoting one unsigned review: "This truly magnificent novel is a translation of `Sangre y Arena,' and gives a picture of what Spanish life—and especially the bull-fighters life—really is...." 
Price: 30.00 USD
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11 Kehoe, Vincent J-R AFICIONADO! The Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Fiesta de Toros of Spain.
NY Hastings House 1959 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket 
256pp; illus throughout from 460 photographs and 18 diagrams. 11" x 8.25" 
Price: 20.00 USD
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12 Kehoe, Vincent J-R WINE, WOMEN & TOROS: The Fiesta de Toros in the Culture of Spain.
NY Hastings House 1961 First Edition Original cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket 
240pp, index; illus throughout from photographs. 11" x 8.25" 
Price: 25.00 USD
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13 Leibold, John THIS IS THE BULLFIGHT. Photographs by Luis Arenas.
Cranbury, NJ A.S. Barnes 1971 0498074498 / 9780498074493 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket 
344pp, index; illus throughout from photographs. Few short edge-tears in dust jacket. 11.25" x 8.75" The author witnessed the fighting and killing of more than 4,000 bulls in the ring. 
Price: 30.00 USD
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14 Macnab, Angus FIGHTING BULLS: An Account of the Bullfight.
NY Harcourt Brace 1959 First US Edition Cloth-backed boards Very Good Very Good Jacket 
pp: xiv, 266; 25pp illus from photographs. Prior owner's bookplate. 8.25" x 5.5" "An account of the modern bullfight, including a full description of the corrida, historical notes on the development of bullfighting, stories of the great toreros of the past, a review of the decade of dishonor that ended in 1952, moment-by-moment reporting of recent fights, and--above all--emphasizing the breeding and character of fighting bulls." 
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15 Marks, John TO THE BULLFIGHT: The Spectator's Guide.
NY Knopf 1953 First US Edition Pictorial Boards Very Good Very Good Jacket 
pp: x, 147; 32pp illus from photographs. Price-clipped dust jacket. 8.5" x 5.75" Marks views the fiesta de toros as a ballet in broad daylight--"an elaborate dance of life and death." 
Price: 25.00 USD
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16 McCormick, John & Mario Sevilla Mascarenas THE COMPLETE AFICIONADO: A Comprehensive Survey of the Art and Technique of Modern Toreo.
Cleveland World 1967 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket 
pp: xi, 276, index; text illus from drawings and photographs. Illustrated by Roberto Berdecio. 9.5" x 6.25" 
Price: 25.00 USD
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17 Peyre, Joseph GLITTERING DEATH: A Novel of the Bull Ring. Translated from the French by James Whitall.
NY Random House 1937 First Edition Original Cloth Very Good Good Jacket 
304pp. Dust jacket darkened at spine and lightly chipped. 8.5" x 5.25" Peyre's novel of torero Ricardo Garcia won the Goncourt Prize for 1935. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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18 Smith, Rex, editor BIOGRAPHY OF THE BULLS: An Anthology of Spanish Bullfighting,
NY Rinehart 1957 First Edition Pictorial boards Good Good Jacket 
pp: x, 384, (1); text illus from various artists. Endpaper drawings by John Groth. Full-color cover picture by Tom Lea. Top of spine bumped. Dust jacket chipped. 10.25" x 8.75" Smith samples the tauromachian works of many different writers and artists. 
Price: 20.00 USD
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19 Suarez, Jose and John Marks THE LIFE & DEATH OF THE FIGHTING BULL. Photographs by Jose Suarez. Text by John Marks.
NY Putnam 1968 First US Edition Original Boards Very Good Very Good Jacket 
127pp; 64 illus from photographs, most double-page. 12.25" x 9.5" Follows the fighting bull "from the splendid luxury on the ranch where he is bred for spectacular death to his bloody end in the bullring as a corpse for the butcher's block." 
Price: 25.00 USD
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20 Trujillo, Julia Molina vda. HOMENAJE: QUE LA RAMA FEMENINA DEL PARTIDO DOMINICANO, RINDE A LA EXCELSA MATRONA, DONA JULIA MOLINA VDA. TRUJILLO, PRIMERA DAMA DE LA REPUBLICA ... DIA DE LAS MADRES, 1959.
Dominican Republic 1959 First Edition Original wraps Very Good 
4pp; full-page portrait of the first lady. Text in Spanish. 10" x 8". Programme: Mother's Day homage to the First Lady of the Dominican Republic. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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