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(MEXICO / MÉNDEZ, LEOPOLDO.) Cabada, Juan de la. Incidentes Melódicos del Mundo Irracional. 40 wood engraved illustrations in black and colors, by Méndez. 4to, mint green wrappers stamped in rose and black; publisher's color pictorial dust jacket, minor wear. Mexico: La Estampa Mexicana, 1944
one of 1022 copies of the trade edition after a numbered edition of 178. A lively graphic collaboration between de la Cabada, one of the musicology pioneers of indigenous Mayan music, and Méndez, the celebrated Mexican graphic artist. The stories here are based on many Yucatec Maya folktales and traditions, presented in a visual and artistic way through anthropomorphic animals and musical notation.
