MONTERO LACASA, José.
Prototipos Bonaerenses. Ilustraciones del Autor. [Buenos Aires,] Carlos y Roberto Nale, Editores, [1954.]
Oblong folio, pp. 206, [2], with 66 scratchboard illustrations by the author; slight age-toning, but a very good copy in the original printed stiff paper wrappers, dampstain to foot of spine; stamp of the University of Rosario, Argentina, with manuscript note dated 1959 of its sale by the College of Engraving.
First edition of a collection of short stories of gaucho life, with atmospheric illustrations by the author. The title-verso advertises translations of the work into English and German, but we can find no evidence they were ever published.
Montero Lacasa (1893-1957) had been a popular illustrator for Argentinian newspapers in the ’40s and ’50s. An earlier work, El Hombre a Caballo (1939), is extremely rare.