Background
Lea, Tom was born on July 11, 1907 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Tom and Zola (Utt) Lea.
( One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001...)
One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001) was already a noted artist, muralist, and book illustrator when he published his first novel, The Brave Bulls, in 1949. This suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico, elegantly illustrated by the author, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by Time magazine as the best first novel of the year. It also won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, went through numerous reprints and translations, and became a 1951 movie starring Mel Ferrer and Anthony Quinn.
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(First Edition, 1964, first printing, an almost like-new h...)
First Edition, 1964, first printing, an almost like-new hardcover, except for a prior owner name and address at the top of the first page, slightly aged but with bright yellow cloth boards and embossed red and brown lettering on the spine and brown top edge spray, with an unclipped ($6.75) dust jacket that is rubbed and chipped at the spine ends and outer corners, also slight sunning to the spine and small closed tears at the top spine folds, from Little, Brown. Written and illustrated by Tom Lea, previously author of The Brave Bulls and four other books. 244 pages.
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(September 1949 printing. Good condition. Hardcover, no du...)
September 1949 printing. Good condition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Age related discoloration and spots, mostly on the outside edges Spine is strong and slightly faded. 270 pages. Back cover is slightly worn on inside fold.
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Excerpt from The Primal Yoke: A Novel He had expected them at the station. He had imagined many times how they would be there waiting for him when he finally got back. He stood looking for them in the dark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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(8 hours and 49 minutes, unabridged on compact disk. Artis...)
8 hours and 49 minutes, unabridged on compact disk. Artist, author, and Texas Renaissance man, Tom Lea was a widely acclaimed man of many talents. His triumphant New York Times best-selling novel The Brave Bulls is considered a classic of Southwestern literature. Here, listeners are invited to explore the fascinating, visually evocative world of Mexican bullfighting in all its brutal glory.
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( One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001...)
One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001) was already a noted artist, muralist, and book illustrator when he published his first novel, The Brave Bulls, in 1949. This suspenseful story of bullfighting in Mexico, elegantly illustrated by the author, spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was hailed by Time magazine as the best first novel of the year. It also won the Carr P. Collins Award from the Texas Institute of Letters, went through numerous reprints and translations, and became a 1951 movie starring Mel Ferrer and Anthony Quinn.
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(Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistole...)
Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto El Paso after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro's business in Texas. Fourteen years earlier-shortly after the end of the Civil War-when he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martín Bredi. Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. When Brady/Bredi returns to Mexico, the Castros distrust him as an American. He becomes a man without a country. The Wonderful Country clearly depicts life along the Texas-Mexico border of a century-and-a-half ago, when Texas and Mexico were being settled and tamed.
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( Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pisto...)
Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistolero Martín Bredi is returning to El Puerto El Paso after a fourteen-year absence. Bredi carries a gun for the Chihuahuan warlord Cipriano Castro and is on Castro’s business in Texas. Fourteen years earliershortly after the end of the Civil Warwhen he was the boy Martin Brady, he killed the man who murdered his father and fled to Mexico where he became Martín Bredi. Back in Texas Brady breaks a leg; then he falls in love with a married woman while recuperating; and, finally, to right another wrong, he kills a man. When Brady/Bredi returns to Mexico, the Castros distrust him as an American. He becomes a man without a country. The Wonderful Country clearly depicts life along the Texas-Mexico border of a century-and-a-half ago, when Texas and Mexico were being settled and tamed.
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("An hour before daylight the wind came up and swept along...)
"An hour before daylight the wind came up and swept along the floor of the desert, moving the sand, changing the shapes of the hummocks under the dark mesquite. It blew across the bare mesas, over the summit stones of mountains..."
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Lea, Tom was born on July 11, 1907 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Tom and Zola (Utt) Lea.
Student, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1924-1926; Doctor of Letters, Baylor University, 1967; Doctor of Humane Letters, Southern Methodist U., 1970.
Mural painter, commercial artist, art teacher, Chgo, 1926-1933; student in, Italy, 1930; student in, New Mexico, 1933-1935; staff, Laboratory Anthropology, Santa Fe, 1933-1935.
(First Edition, 1964, first printing, an almost like-new h...)
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( One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001...)
( One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001...)
( One of Texas's true renaissance men, Tom Lea (1907-2001...)
("An hour before daylight the wind came up and swept along...)
(Tom Lea's The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pistole...)
( Tom Lea’s The Wonderful Country opens as mejicano pisto...)
(Excerpt from The Primal Yoke: A Novel He had expected th...)
(The hundred-year story of the greatest ranch in the world...)
(1st Penguin 922 1953 edition paperback vg+ condition. In ...)
(8 hours and 49 minutes, unabridged on compact disk. Artis...)
(Best history of the famous Texas ranch.)
(September 1949 printing. Good condition. Hardcover, no du...)
(Bantam Book No. F1956. Mass market paperback issued 1959.)
(By Tom Lea. Maps and drawings by the author. Research: Ho...)
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Married Sarah Catherine Dighton, July 14, 1938. 1 son, James Dighton.