Two Richly Illustrated Argentine Children's Books, One Signed

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1939. (2) volumes, both with blue cloth spines, pictorial paper-covered boards, and decorative endpapers; folios; unpaginated [26pp], with beautiful color illustrations throughout. Text in Spanish.

To include:

Maria Rosa Oliver; Horacio Butler, illus. Geografia Argentina [Argentine Geography]. Inscribed on the title page by the author: "To my dear Pepita, from / Maria Rosa Oliver / Washington 1943."

A. Guillot Muñoz; Toño Salazar, illus. Alí Babá y Los Cuarenta Ladrones [Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves].

Each 14 3/16 x 10 1/2 in.

Boards with some scuffs, marks, and light grime, and wear to extremities, one with a small paper tear to the back cover, and the other with toning; spine ends rubbed; occasional light mark, small spot, or grime, with pages overall very clean; occasional heavy wear and cracking at gutters; Alí Babá with light wear and small tears to one corner of some leaves with a few very slightly loose.