1st edition. Later Cloth binding with original illustrated paper wrappers bound in, Large 8vo, 126 pages. Includes illustrations. 25 cm. In Spanish. Somewhat Antisemitic novel, in rich period melodramatic Spanish, of European refugees in Mexico, including those fleeing Spain as well as Nazism. For example from page 15: Asfixiante penetraba hasta los ultimos escondrijos del vapor
Pero aquella noche tambien como en las travesias de placer se agruparon por castas y fortunas: los hebreos fugitives de los ghettos de Alemania, de Polonia, de los Balkanes bajaron a su comedor instalado en las bodegas. Las rudas bancas de Madera, las mesas desnudas de mantel, los trastos que algunos cargaban consigoen acatamiento a su ley reigiosa--, eran una novedad para ellos: solo taltaban los fuetes implacable de los guardians de los campos de concentracion
[ roughly translates as: "Suffocation filled their every last breath... But tonight, indulging in pleasure also, they were grouped by caste and wealth: the fugitive Jews from the ghettos of Germany, Poland, the Balkans, all down below in their dining room installed in the basement. The rough wooden benches, bare tables denuded of tablecloths and some loaded with them-in deference to their religious lawthis was all new to them: All they lacked now were the implacable whips of the concentration camp guards ... "]. SUBJECT (S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide. Unobtrusive institutional stamp on upper corner of front end paper, paper toning as expected, Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-5)
