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Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991 by (DRUGS) Escobar, Pablo - 1992

by (DRUGS) Escobar, Pablo

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Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991 by (DRUGS) Escobar, Pablo - 1992

Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991

by (DRUGS) Escobar, Pablo

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[Medellin, Colombia, 1992. Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (4 of them in color). [2]-377, [1] ll., printed rectos only. 4to. Original calf with facsimile signature and fingerprint in gilt, original slipcase (repaired). Minor foxing on a few leaves. Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (4 of them in color). [2]-377, [1] ll., printed rectos only. 4to. Proof of the law's inability to constrain Escobar, surely comes in no stranger format than this self-published collection of political cartoons concerning the Colombian drug trade while serving time in his luxury prison, La Catedral. 
Escobar is quite serious about the value of this work and states in the prologue: "El lengua figurativo de la caricatura representa una opinion, un criterio, un punto de vista personal y es por eso que hemos querido recopilar todos los pensamientos graficos y bajo este tema especifico de narrativa. Porque visualizar un concepto tan abstracto como un modo de pensar, va mas alla de la simple ridiculizacion de un a personaje o la simple expocision de los razgos caracteristicos; es darle vida propia a una imagen abstracta que reposa silenciosa en nuestra mentes."
The book opens with a report on the Colombian government importing of cocaine and reprints a series of photographs of Escobar, some with his family and even some in prison. From there the wide-ranging caricatures satirise everything from politics, the mafia, religion, the United States, and even drug use in sport.
According to an Escobar family member, most of the copies of the book were burned after Escobar's escape from the prison with only a handful of copies surviving the fire. 
Rare. OCLC locates no copies, though the book does turn up now and again on a certain online auction site at predictably ludicrous prices.
  • Seller James Cummins Bookseller US (US)
  • Format/Binding Numerous plates reproducing political cartoons and photographs and drawings of Escobar (4 of them in color). [2]-377, [1] ll., p
  • Book Condition Used - Original calf with facsimile signature and fingerprint in gilt, original slipcase (repaired). Minor foxing on a few leaves
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Place of Publication [Medellin, Colombia
  • Date Published 1992
  • Keywords South America

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[Replica] Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991
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[Replica] Pablo Escobar Gaviria en Caricaturas 1983-1991

by Escobar, Pablo

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[Nicholas Escobar]. Replica Edition. Fine. 1992 [but later]. Replica. Published by Pablo's nephew, Nicholas Ecobar. A replica of the book originally published by Pablo Escobar featuring a collection of political cartoons concerning the Colombian drug trade, self-published by Pablo Escobar while serving time in his luxury prison, La Catedral. Bound in publisher's original padded brown leather boards stamped in gilt, wrapped in tissue paper and in original correlated box. Fine, with tear and wear to tissue paper, box lightly worn and lightly soiled. A lovely copy of this publishing oddity, highlighting the power of Escobar and the inability of the government to contain him.
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