Fiesta in Mexico by Erna Fergusson (AUTHOR SIGNED) - 1934

New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1934 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1934. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author and illustrator on the half title page. Retired New Mexico Library Extension Service copy with one checkout on Date Due Slip in 1948. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a NMLS bookplate on the front pastedown and a tracking number on the bottom of the title page. Book Condition: Very Good; index number on the spine; Date Due slip on the RFFP; check out pocket on rear pastedown; light soiling to boards; small stain on fore edge of boards and textblock. Yellow cloth boards and spine with black lettering and artistic decorations on the spine and front board. tinted textblock top. 267 pp 8vo. This book is a partial offering of Mexican Fiestas, regional and seasonal described as well as the author can understand them. They are a combination of Indian, Spanish, and Catholic rituals, pagan rituals, and European Christianity that give a strange amalgam of racial and religious heritage to the fiestas. A clean very presentable copy.