MT[I] Library

This is
a catalog (to be annotated, one of these days)
of the books in MT[I]'s library. Most are in English.
Where they are not, the language is noted.
Acquaroni, José
Luis
- Bulls
and Bullfighting (1958) Editorial Noguer, S.A.
- La
Corrida de Toros (1964) Editorial Noguer, S.A.
Almela y Vives,
Francisco
- Toros--Leader
for the Spectator (1959) Ediciones GAISA
Anonymous
- El
Catolicismo y las Corridas de Toros (1887) Berrueco Hermanos (Spanish)
"Opusculo escrito para la esclarecida diocesis de Puebla y ofredico
respetuosamente a su dignisimo obispo y venerable clero."
- La
Corrida de Toros (1967) Laminograph (Spanish, French, English, German,
Dutch)
- Corrida
de Toros : Stierkampf in der Kunst Europas (1982) (German, Spanish)
Catalog of prints from an exhibit put on by Lufthansa to foster closer
ties with Spain.
Arruza, Carlos
with Barnaby Conrad
- My
Life as a Matador -- The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza (1956) Houghton
Mifflin
de Ascasubi,
Don Luis
- Of
Bulls and Men--A Traditional Sport (1962) Thomas Nelson & Sons
Aubier, Dominique
- Fiesta
in Pamplona (1956) Universe Books
Baerlein, Henry
- Belmonte
the Matador (1934) Harrison Smith & Robert Haas
Beamish, Huldine
- Cavaliers
of Portugal (1966) Taplinger Publishing Co.
Belmonte, Juan
- Juan
Belmonte, Killer of Bulls (1937) Doubleday
Subtitle: The Autobiography of a Matador
Benson, Eugene
P.
- The
Bulls of Ronda (1976) Methuen/Two Continents Publications
Berckemeyer
y Pazos, Fernando
- El
Arte y Los Toros (1966) Museo Taurino de Arte de Lima (Spanish)
Blasco Ibañez,
Vicente
- Blood
and Sand (1919) E.P. Dutton (Gillespie, W.A., trans.--"Authorized
Amer. Ed.")
Probably the most famous/influential taurine novel ever written.
- The
Blood of the Arena (1919) A.C. McClurg & Co. (Frances Douglas,
trans.) (same book as "Blood and Sand")
- Sangre
y Arena (1919) Plaza Y Janes (1981 Ed.)(same book as "Blood
and Sand")
Boetticher,
Budd
- When
in Disgrace (1989) Neville
Botsford, Keith
- Dominguín--The
Passionale of Spain's Greatest Bullfighter (1972) Quadrangle Books
Brandeis, Madeline
- The
Little Mexican Donkey Boy (1931) Grosset & Dunlap
Bright, Roderic
- Toros
Without Tears (1949) Ediciones Luna
Subtitled: A simple explanation of what you will see at a bull-fight
Buckley, Peter
- Bullfight
(1958) Simon and Schuster
Casteel, Homer
- The
Running of the Bulls -- A Description of the Bullfight (1953) Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Castillo-Puche,
José Luis
- Hemingway
in Spain (1974) Doubleday (Helen R. Lane, trans.)
Originally published as "Hemingway: Entre la Vida y la Muerte"
Cintron, Conchita
- Memoirs
of a Bullfighter (1968) Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Introduction by Orson Welles
First publised in Spanish, entitled "Recuerdos"
For those of you whose memories don't go back this far -- Cristina Sanchez
is not the first, world-famous torera.
Clergue, Lucien
- Toros
Muertos (1966) Brussel & Brussel (English/French)
A photo book by the ex-torero turned photographer (in the Web-Meister's
opinion,
the best taurine photographer in the world).
Club Taurino
of New York
Colección
La Tauromaquia--Espasa Calpe (Spanish)
- #01--José
Carlos Arévalo--Nacido Para Morir (1985)
- #04--Luis Nieto
Manjón--Diccionario Ilustrade de Términos
Taurinos (1987)
- #07--Andrés
Amorós--Toros y Cultura (1987)
- #10--Tomás-Ramón
Fernández--Reglamentación de las Corridas
de Toros (1987)
- #17--Fernando
Claramunt--Historia Ilustrada de la Tauromaquia
(2 vol) (1989)
- #24--Alberto Lopera
(Loperita)--Colombia: Tierra de Toros (1989)
- #26--Rafael Zaldívar--El
Cartel Taurino (1990)
- #32--Andrés
Amorós--Lenguaje Taurino y Sociedad
(1990)
- #36--Fernando
Vinyes--México: Diez Veces Llanto (1991)
Colección
Lecturas Taurinas--Bibliófilos Taurinos de México, A.C. (Spanish)
- #01--Daniel Medina
de la Serna--Las Prohibiciones de la Fiesta de Toros
en el Distrito Federal (1990)
- #02--Humberto
Ruíz Quiroz--Cincuentenario de la Independencia
Taurina Mexicana (1990)
- #03--Luis Ruíz
Quiroz--Cien Rabos en la Plaza Mexico (1990)
- #05--(semblaza)
Luis Ruíz Quiroz--"Verduguillo"
en el Centenario de su Nacimiento (1990)-- incluido, "Tres
décadas del toreo en México (1900-1934) por Rafael Solana
"Verduguillo"(1990)
- #09--Arturo Combe
Ayala--La Actual Fiesta Brava (1991)
- #10--C. P. Jesús
Dávila Medina--El Juez de Plaza y la Fiesta
Brava (1991)
Collins, Larry
and Dominique Lapierre
- Or
I'll Dress You in Mourning (1968) Simon and Schuster (2)
Subtitled: The story of El Cordobes and the new Spain he stands for
Conrad, Barnaby
- The
Death of Manolete (1958) Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Encyclopedia
of Bullfighting (1961) Houghton Mifflin Co.
- La
Fiesta Brava--The Art of the Bull Ring (1950) Houghton Mifflin Co.
- Fun
While it Lasted (1969) Random House
- Gates
of Fear--Great Exploits of the World's Bullrings (1957) Crown Publishers,
Inc. (2)
- How
to Fight a Bull (1968) Doubleday (2)
"Pass-by-pass instructions and fascinating bullring lore for armchair
aficionados ..."
- Matador
(1952) Capra Press
Conrad, Jack
Randolph
- The
Horn and the Sword
(1957) E. P. Dutton (2) "From the Stone Age to modern times--the worship
of the Bull, God of power and fertility"
de Cossío,
José María (original author)
Los
Toros: Tratado Técnico e Histórico -- Espasa Calpe
(Spanish)
(Undoubtedly the most important taurine encyclopedia ever published)
- Volume
1--Vocabulario taurino: el toro, la plaza, el torero, la fiesta
- Volume
2--Preceptiva taurina: polémicas; lenguaje, poesía,
novela, teatro, periodismo taurino; artes plásticas e industriales;
el cartel
- Volume
8--La fiesta de toros a través de las crónicas periodísticas
(1793-1883)
- Volume
9--La fiesta de toros a través de las crónicas periodísticas
(1883-1920)
- Volume
11--Apéndice 1978-1988--La cría y selección
del toro de lidia en la actualidad; nuevas ganaderías; toros célebres;
nuevas plazas de toros; inventario biográfico de nuevos diestros;
el V Congreso Internacional Taurino (Jerez, 1988).
Cronica
Taurina Grafica
- Annual Editions
(1969, 1975, 1976, 1978) Botan (Spanish)
Daley, Robert
- The
Swords of Spain (1966) The Dial Press (2)
Denys, Jean
- The
Shouting Dies Away (1958) Longmans, Green and Co.
Originally published as "Les Clamerus Se Sont Tues"
Diaz-Cañabate,
A.
- The
Magic World of the Bullfighter (1956) Burke Publishing Co.
Ruminations on Juan Belmonte, Domingo Ortega, Manolete, and Luis Miguel
Dominguin
Fosado Balderas,
Jorge
- Los
Toros -- La Fiesta de la Raza (1954) Producciones Heredia (Spanish)
Franklin, Sidney
- Bull-fighter
from Brooklyn
Subtitle "The amazing autobiography of Sidney Franklin"
Frontain, Dick
- How
to Enjoy a Bullfight (1966) The Hooper Press
From the books' "dedication" -- "This book is dedicated
to Carlos Arruza, the eternal "numero uno" of toreros
..." and from Carlos Arruza's 'Foreword': "This is the best bullfighting
book ever written in English." Hmmmmmm ...
Fulton, John
- Bullfighting
(1971) The Dial Press
García
Lorca, Federico
- Lament
for the Death of a Bullfighter and other poems (1937) Oxford U.
Press
In Spanish with English translations by A. L. Lloyd
Gardner, John
- Every
Night's a Bullfight (1971) Michael Joseph
Greenfield,
Arthur
- Anatomy
of a Bullfight (1961) Longmans, Green and Co.
Gual, Enrique
- Torero--A
Bullfighter's Day (1955) Coley Taylor, Inc.
Haces, Carlos
& Pulido, Marco Antonio
- Los
Toros de José Guadalupe Posada (1985) SEP Cultura (Spanish)
Haining, Peter
(Ed.)
- A
Thousand Afternoons (1970) Cowles Book Co.
Hall, Marshall
- Knight
in the Sun--Harper B. Lee, First Yankee Matador (1962) Little Brown
Illustrations by Tom Lea (see below)
Hemingway, Ernest
- The
Dangerous Summer (1960) Charles Scribner's Sons (2)
Introduction by James Michener
Story of the protracted summer-long mano-a-mano between Luis Miguel Dominguín
and Antonio Ordóñez (brothers-in-law) in 1959.
- Death
in the Afternoon (1932) Scribners (2)
- Mort
dans l'après-midi (1960) Gallimard (French) (Death in the
Afternoon) (René Daumal, trans.)
- Muerte
en la Tarde (1968) Planeta (Lola Aguado, trans.)
- Le
soleil se lève aussi (1949) Gallimard (French) (The Sun also
Rises)(Mauríce-E. Coindreau, trans.)
- El
Verano Peligroso (1960) Planeta (Spanish) (Léon-Ignacio,
trans.)
Hjortsberg,
William
- Toro!
Toro! Toro! (1974) Simon and Schuster
"a novel ... an entertainment ... a romance"
Ingram, Rex
- Mars
in the House of Death (1939) Knopf
Josephs, Allen
- White
Wall of Spain--The Mysteries of Andalusian Culture (1983) U. of
W. Florida Press
Foreword by James Michener
Kehoe, Vincent
J-R
- Aficionado!
(1959) Hastings House
Subtitle: The Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Fiesta de Toros of Spain
- Wine
Women & Toros! (1961) Hastings House
Subtitle: The Fiesta de Toros in the Culture of Spain
Lafront, A.
- Toreros
D'Aujourd'Hui (1959) Art et Industrie (French)
Lea, Tom
- The
Brave Bulls--A Novel (1949) Little, Brown
Leibold, John
- This
is the Bullfight (1971) A. S. Barnes and Co.
Libros de Oro
de la Tauromaquia--Espassa Calpe (Spanish)
- Temporada
Taurina 1985--Repóquer--José Carlos Arévalo
& José Antonio del Moral
- Ante
la Temporada Taurina 1987--Tiempo de Esperanza--Vicente Zabala
- Temporada
Taurina 1987--40 Años Después--Joaquín Vidal
- Temporada
Taurina 1988--Larga Cambiada--I. Alvarez Vara Barquerito
- Temporada
Taurina 1989--En Busca de la Competencia--Juan Posada
Little, Charles
- The
Sound of Trumpets (1965) Monarch Books
Llovet, Enrique
(Ed.)
- Tauromachy
-- The Story of the Corrida (1958) Art et Industrie
Preface by Juan Belmonte
Macnab, Angus
- Fighting
Bulls--An Account of the Bullfight (1959) Harcourt, Brace (2)
Published in England as "The Bulls of Iberia"
Madrazo Solorzano,
Francisco
- ¡Agotado
el Boletaje! (1989?) Publisher unk. (Spanish)
Malgesto, Paco
- "Armillita"
Maestro de Maestros (1988) Panorama Editorial (Spanish)
Subtitle: 100 años de dinastía taurina
de Maria y Campos,
Armando
- Vida
y Muerte de Alberto Balderas (1943) Editorial S.I.N. (Spanish)
Marks, John
- To
the Bullfight--The Spectator's Guide (1953) Knopf
- To
the Bullfight Again--A Spectator's Guide (1967) Knopf (enlarged
& revised ed.)
Martinez Torres,
F.
- The
A. B. C. of Bullfighting (2d Ed.) (1985) Imprenta Fareso, S.A.
McCormick, John
and Mario Sevilla Mascareñas
- The
Complete Aficionado (1967) The World Publishing Co.
Subtitle: A Comprehensive Survey of the Art and Technique of Modern Toreo
McCormick, Patricia
- Lady
Bullfighter (1954) Henry Holt and Co.
"The personal story of a girl from Texas who has become famous as
a bullfighter."
Morales y Marín,
José Luis
- Los
Toros en el Arte (1987) Espasa Calpe (Spanish)
Oag, Shay
- In
the Presence of Death -- Antonio Ordoñez (1968) Coward-McCann,
Inc.
Olano, Antonio
D.
- Yiyo--Adios,
Principe, Adios (19??) Delfos
Subtitle: Ha muerto un angel
Pewny, Nicolas
(Intro.)
- Corrida--Goya,
Picasso, Puig, Garcia Lorca
A gorgeous, "coffee table" art book (1995), Editions du
Choucas (Fr, Eng & Span)
Pizer, Vernon
E.
- Manolete's
Last Dance with Death
in "Men of Courage", William Parker (Ed.) (1972) Playboy Press
Ricci, Robert
- Corridas--détails
de passion (1989) Aubier (French)
Ruiz Quiroz,
Luis
- Anuario
Estadistoco Taurino de México 1990 (1991) Bibliofilos Taurinos
de México (Spanish)
Sanz de Pedre,
Mariano
- La
Música en los Toros y la Música de los Toros (1981)
Musigraf Arabí (Spanish)
Scott, Paul
- The
Corrida at San Felíu (1974) Granada Publishing
Simont, Marc
- Afternoon
in Spain (1965) William Morrow and Co.
"The vivid, colorful, often humorous world of the Fiesta Brava."
Smith, Rex (Ed.)
- Biography
of the Bulls--An Anthology of Spanish Bullfighting (1957) Rinehart
Spota, Luis
- The
Wounds of Hunger (1957) Houghton Mifflin (Barnaby Conrad, trans.)
Original title: Más Cornadas da el Hambre
According to Barnaby: "The best bullfighting novel I've read."
Steen, Marguerite
- The
Bulls of Parral (1954) Doubleday
"A novel of romance, courage and death set in Spain and England"
- Matador
(1934) Royal Books
Suárez
José and John Marks
- The
Life & Death of the Fighting Bull (1968) Putnam
Sutherland,
Halliday
- The
Arches of the Years (1933) William Morrow and Co.
Tapia Robson,
Santiago Wealands
- The
National Spanish Fiesta/The Art of Bullfighting (1953) F. Velasco
Gil
Taurine Bibliophiles
of America
- La
Busca (25th Anniv. Ed.) (1989) TBA
Contains an extensive (English-language) taurine bibliography compiled
by Ross A. Phelps
Taurología--Revista
Cultural Taurina (Spanish) Ediciones Brindis
- Numeros 1-6 (1990-1991)
A gorgeously produced glossy magazine of taurine art, opinion, academics.
Trimnell, Roxert
I.
- Trim's
Bullfight Guide (1955)
Tuser Via, Gustavo
- La
corrida (1979) Ediciones Castell (Spanish, French, English, German)
Tynan, Kenneth
- Bull
Fever (New Ed. with some afterthoughts by the author) (1966) Atheneum
Vazquez Salcedo,
J. Carlos
- ¡Fiesta
de Toros! (1988) (Spanish)
Verrill Cintron,
Lola
- Goddess
of the Bullring (1960) Bobbs-Merrill
Subtitled: The Story of Conchita Cintron ... The World's Greatest Matadora
Villatoro, Angel
- Antologia
Taurina Mexicana (1964) Biblioteca Nueva (Spanish)(2)
Wojciechowska,
Maia
- The
Life and Death of a Brave Bull (1972) Harcourt, Brace
- Shadow
of a Bull (1964) Aladdin Books

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