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272 pages with glossary. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's red cloth with white lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. Translated into Irene Nicholson. First edition into English. First published in Mexico in 1957.In the remote towns and haciendas of the high country of Chiapas, the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution had little impact until the reforming government of Lozaro Cardenas during the 1930s began pressing for Indian rights and education. A 7-year-old girl watches as the old order -- where a few powerful land-owning families and their male heirs could dominate a region politically and even sexually -- breaks down.Condition: Previous owner's name to front pastedown, heal corners gently bumped. Jacket with corners and spine ends lightly chipped, light edge wear else very good in like jacket.

Stated First edition. Square spine, clean, no writing, no folded page corners. Black mark on bottom page edge. Dust jacket clean with no rips, protected by mylar cover.

NY: VANGUARD.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good+ to near fine in price-clipped otherwise very good+ dust jacket. (Trace of faint soiling at top edge and at bottom edge of rear cover. Couple very tiny chips & short edge tears in jacket. ) .