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FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches. xiv + 354 pp. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper with lightly sunned spine. Foxing of edges and occasional of preliminaries; otherwise a very good copy. 1970 gift inscription signed by author on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 16 pages of photographic plates and by 3 maps. History of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-20, with sections headed Diaz, Madero, Huerta and Carranza, and including accounts of the revolutionary leaders, Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa. Includes lists of reference sources and detailed sources acting as chapter notes. By Ronald Atkin (1931-1924), sports journalist and historian.