(MEXICO) Inclán Luis G Astucia al gefe de los hermanos de la

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FIRST OF THE COWBOY WRITERS (MEXICO.) Inclán, Luis G. Astucia al gefe de los hermanos de la hoja, ó los charros contrabandistas de la rama. 17, 16 lithographed plates plus one duplicate. 392; 397, [2] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, modern 1/4 calf; intermittent foxing and dampstaining, a few small repairs; inked library stamps to title pages and page II:23. Mexico: published by the author, 1865-66

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first edition of Inclán's only novel, about a heroic tobacco smuggler in rural Michoacán, apparently based in part on the author's own life as a vaquero. "An account of improbable adventures and a realistic picture of Mexican country life. . . . It tells two stories, one a romantic shoot-them-up that would make a good western movie, and the other vision of a Mexican utopia. . . . The same conditions that produced Western writing made of Inclán a veritable cowboy writer, a forerunner of men writing in another language but sharing his methods and his outlook, as well as his subject matter"--Paredes, 'Luis Inclán: First of the Cowboy Writers,' in American Quarterly XII:1 (Spring 1960), pages 55-70. Only 4 copies in OCLC and only 2 others traced at auction.