Heading: (Mexican American, 1938-1947)
Author: Niggli, Josephina
Title: 3 books by Josephina Niggli
Place Published: Chapel Hill and New York
Publisher:
Date Published: 1938-1947
Description:

3 volumes. Comprising:

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  Mexican Folk Plays. Edited with an Introduction by Frederick H. Koch,, founder and director of the Carolina Playmakers. Chapel Hill: 1938. 223 pp.  Original pictorial cloth. First Edition. (Samuel French slips pasted on half-title and copyright page, front flyleaf corner clipped)


• 
  Mexican Village. Chapel Hill: 1945. 491 pp. Original cloth in pictorial  dust jacket. (Jacket lightly worn)


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  Step Down Elder Brother. New York: Rinehart, 1947. Original cloth in original dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page in 1948.  (Jacket moderately worn; volume worn at spine head; damp staining to lower corner of text pages)

Niggli was born in Mexico and raised in Texas by parents of mixed European descent. She wrote about Mexican American issues during the middle of 20th century before the Chicano movement. She was the first writing in English on Mexican American themes were progressive for their time.

Good to very good.