Cancionero

[Fernandez, Esther] Guerrero, Eduardo, Ed. Cancionero: Album No. 29. [Mexico City]: Eduardo Guerrero, [1938]. 7-78 x 6 in., [15] pp.; color illus. stapled wrappers, corners bent, otherwise good. Songbook featuring popular folksongs and music from La Adelita, with cover illus. of the movie's star, Mexican actress (and painter) Esther Fernandez. Adelita tells the story of a woman who joins Pancho Villa's revolutionary army as a nurse and ends up as a soldier. Also includes an early version of a song celebrating the expropriation of foreign oil assets in Mexico, in March 1938. Not found in OCLC. SOLD