first edition
1904 · Mexico
by [Jose Guadalupe Posada, illustrator]; Antonio Vanegas Arroyo [printer]
Mexico: Propiedad de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1904. Very Good. Mexico: Propiedad de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1904. First Edition. Original illustrated broadsheet (30x20cm). Printed on newsprint; text and illustrations within a decorative border. Illustration of a doctor extracting a tooth from a seated patient to front. Light rubbing to edges; brief staining to top edge; Very Good.
A loa, a short introductory play with its roots in the Spanish Golden Age, featuring a pistol-wielding, tooth-extracting doctor who brags of his experience as a doctor from Paris to Palestine. Concludes with a procession and a prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe with reference to her appearance in Tepeyac. No copies in retail at time of this writing and only a handful of copies in OCLC. (Inventory #: 31404)
A loa, a short introductory play with its roots in the Spanish Golden Age, featuring a pistol-wielding, tooth-extracting doctor who brags of his experience as a doctor from Paris to Palestine. Concludes with a procession and a prayer to the Virgin of Guadalupe with reference to her appearance in Tepeyac. No copies in retail at time of this writing and only a handful of copies in OCLC. (Inventory #: 31404)