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FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
Magda Portal, 1956 [1957]
Semi-autobiographical novel by the revolutionary Peruvian feminist.
Semi-autobiographical novel by the revolutionary Peruvian feminist.
La Trampa
Portal, Magda. La Trampa. Lima: Ediciones Raiz, 1956 [1957]. First edition. 17.5 cm, 138, (2), pp.; textblock toned with some foxing, illustrated wrapper bumped and foxed, flaps with author portrait, bio, and blurbs.
La Trampa is the only novel written by one of Peru’s most important writers, the revolutionary feminist Magda Portal (1900-1989). The semi-autobiographical story is a political murder mystery; she wrote it to sway public opinion on the imprisonment of Carlos Steer Lafón, responsible for the double assassination of a newspaper magnate and his wife in 1935. The character María de la Luz is based on Portal’s own experiences as a poet, activist, leader of an Aprista party, and a political prisoner.
Scarce in commerce.
$100
Magda Portal, 1950
Signed first edition of Portal's Aprista manifesto.
Signed first edition of Portal's Aprista manifesto.
Quienes traicionaron al pueblo
Portal, Magda. Quienes traicionaron al pueblo? Lima: Salas é Hijos, 1950. 17 cm, 30 pp.; frontispiece portrait, some underlining, in stapled wrappers, toned and sunned, three pin holes near top of wrapper extend through publication. Black strikethrough over orig. price on rear wrap. Signed in ink by the author with dedication to Richard Lee Chin.
Revolutionary feminist Magda Portal’s Aprista manifesto written after her trial by a military tribunal, describing her opposition to the leaders of the failed Peruvian Aprista uprising in 1948. Rear wrap references her famous “Flora Tristan” essay?
$75