The Children of Sanchez: The Autobiography of a Mexican Family

First edition. xxxiv, 500pp. Burgundy cloth-covered boards; yellow titles on spine; top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Text block edges just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-fading, has shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. A deep and intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City who tell their story to the author in their own words - revealing what it is like to grow up in a one-room house in a slum tenement in the heart of a modern city.