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Guevara de la Serna, Ernesto ("Che")
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- printed book
"La Guerra de Guerillas". A Camilo. (Havana: Imprenta del I.N.R.A., c. 1963)
8vo (5 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.; 143 x 118 mm) 5 full-page illustrations by Hernando López. Quarter green morocco gilt, green cloth covers, brown patterned endpapers; spine rubbed, several small holes in cloth. Half green morocco gilt clamshell case.
8vo (5 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.; 143 x 118 mm) 5 full-page illustrations by Hernando López. Quarter green morocco gilt, green cloth covers, brown patterned endpapers; spine rubbed, several small holes in cloth. Half green morocco gilt clamshell case.
Literature
Szulc, Fidel: A Critical Portrait (2000), p. 338
Condition
Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Presentation copy, inscribed by Che Guevara to Argentinian dictator Juan Perón: "Al general Juan D. Perón, de un ex oposicionista que està bastante 'evolucionadito', con saludos revolucionarios. Che. Habana, marzo 24 [19]63." ("To General Juan D. Perón, from a former opponent who is quite a bit 'evolved', with revolutionary greetings, Che. Havana, March 24 [19]63.").
A fascinating souvenir of a contradictory relationship. As a youth in Argentina, Guevara opposed the Perón dictatorship and actively protested against it. In the mid-1950's, however, Guevara's views began to "evolve" (to use his own term). As Tad Szulc writes in Fidel: A Critical Portrait, "In Septenber [1955], Guevara and Castro deplored together the army's overthrow of Juan Perón in Argentina. To a great many Argentines his ouster meant the end of a corrupt dictatorship and a gradual return to representative democracy, but to the two young revolutionaries it marked the end of what they perceived as an experiment in social justice. Guevara complained … that the people did not fight in the streets to defend Perón's Justicialismo, a vague populism combined with a welfare state, that was the beginning of liberation from capitalism and 'imperialism,' even though Perón was loudly anti-Communist. But he had enormous support from urban workers and was anti-American. That was good enough for Guevara and Castro. They saw the military revolution as 'reactionary,' and Castro always remained pro-Perón, immune to the arbitrariness and corruption of Perónismo. It was Perón who funded Castro's trip to Bogotá in 1948 for a students' congress, and it was Perón who financed the news agency for which Guevara now worked in Mexico" (p. 338).
This guerilla warfare manual was apparently sent by Che Guevara to Perón in Madrid, where he was living in exile in 1963. A significant inscription linking two Argentinians, both towering figures in the tumultuous world of Latin American politics in the 20th century.
A fascinating souvenir of a contradictory relationship. As a youth in Argentina, Guevara opposed the Perón dictatorship and actively protested against it. In the mid-1950's, however, Guevara's views began to "evolve" (to use his own term). As Tad Szulc writes in Fidel: A Critical Portrait, "In Septenber [1955], Guevara and Castro deplored together the army's overthrow of Juan Perón in Argentina. To a great many Argentines his ouster meant the end of a corrupt dictatorship and a gradual return to representative democracy, but to the two young revolutionaries it marked the end of what they perceived as an experiment in social justice. Guevara complained … that the people did not fight in the streets to defend Perón's Justicialismo, a vague populism combined with a welfare state, that was the beginning of liberation from capitalism and 'imperialism,' even though Perón was loudly anti-Communist. But he had enormous support from urban workers and was anti-American. That was good enough for Guevara and Castro. They saw the military revolution as 'reactionary,' and Castro always remained pro-Perón, immune to the arbitrariness and corruption of Perónismo. It was Perón who funded Castro's trip to Bogotá in 1948 for a students' congress, and it was Perón who financed the news agency for which Guevara now worked in Mexico" (p. 338).
This guerilla warfare manual was apparently sent by Che Guevara to Perón in Madrid, where he was living in exile in 1963. A significant inscription linking two Argentinians, both towering figures in the tumultuous world of Latin American politics in the 20th century.
According to the colophon, this is one of 50,000 copies of the book printed on Cuban paper. The five illustrations include a depiction of the method for launching a "coctel Molotov" with a rifle, a target practice session, and an idyllic scene of a hammock, with a nylon tarp used as a sunscreen, pitched in a jungle clearing with a rifle resting on the ground.