The Forgotten Village - FIRST EDITION from Steinbeck

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A rare first edition (only 15,000 printed in 1941) of a wonderful book by the great author John Steinbeck. The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which it was made have, thus, a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in the so-called "documentary" films. The camera crew that, headed by Kline and with Steinbeck's script at hand, recorded this narrative of birth and death, of witch doctors and vaccines, of the old Mexico and the new, spent nine months off the trails of Mexico. They traveled thousands of miles to find just the village they needed; they borrowed children from the government school, took men from the fields, their wives from the markets, and old medicine woman from her hut by the side of the trail. This is a true collectible piece of history. It is in good shape with some wear to the dust jacket but otherwise in really solid shape. Check out the pictures. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-4783886009

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