STEINBECK, John.
The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village.
First edition of The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village; Signed by John Steinbeck
New York: The Viking Press, 1941.
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First edition, second printing before publication of the companion volume to the 1941 documentary film written by Steinbeck and directed by Herbert Kline. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 136 photographs from the film. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Slight to the endpapers affecting the signature. Rubbing and losses to the extremities of the dust jacket, toning to the rear panel of the dust jacket. Photographs by Herbert Kline and Associates.
Here, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and director of Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combine 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 Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which The Forgotten Village was made have a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in typical documentary films of the time.
The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village.
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