A soldier at the age of eleven. An honorably discharged veteran at the age of thirteen. A miner, a cotton-picker, a shepherd, and a graduate of Hollywood High. Luis Perez lived an incredible life and then shaped his story into a vividly realized autobiographical novel. El Coyote, the Rebel, originally published in 1947, tells how the toddler Luis, son of an Aztec mother and a French diplomat father, ended up in the care of an uncle who soon drank away most of the boy's inheritance. Having run away from cruel treatment, Luis ...
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A soldier at the age of eleven. An honorably discharged veteran at the age of thirteen. A miner, a cotton-picker, a shepherd, and a graduate of Hollywood High. Luis Perez lived an incredible life and then shaped his story into a vividly realized autobiographical novel. El Coyote, the Rebel, originally published in 1947, tells how the toddler Luis, son of an Aztec mother and a French diplomat father, ended up in the care of an uncle who soon drank away most of the boy's inheritance. Having run away from cruel treatment, Luis by chance came to fight with the rebel armies in the 1910 Mexican Revolution, received the nickname of El Coyote for his cunning, and was wounded in combat. Upon being given a discharge and a twenty-dollar bill, he walked across the border to become an American and the beginning of a new tomorrow.
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Seller's Description:
Politi, Leo. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Book New York: Henry Holt, 1947. Book. Cloth. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Stated first printing. tomato red cloth boards with brown decoration and lettering front, lettering side, bumped at bottom corner and at spine. Bookplate bottom of front pastedown. DJ in mylar, clipped at corners, price still evident and has been scratched through and a lower price marked in. Small loss top corner, scuff bottom corner small loss near top spine, short tear bottom spine, chip back lower dj, discoloration back top dj. Subtitled: Recollections of a Reluctant Man of Action..
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Illustrated by Leo Politi. Octavo. 233, [1]pp. Tiny neat owner's name, else fine in a bright, very good dustwrapper with a couple of shallow chips at the crown and rear panel.
