Lady bullfighter : the autobiography of the North American matador / Patricia McCormick ; illustrated with photographs; [line drawings by the author].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCormick, Patricia, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Henry Holt and Company, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

McCormick, Patricia--Biography.

McCormick, Patricia.

Bullfighters--Biography.

Bullfighters.

Bullfights.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

McCormick, Patricia (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

McFarland, Mary (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

ix, [3], 209, [1] pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1954]

Contents:

Sunny Sunday afternoon

Knights and matadors

Why not the stars?

Flights and falls

The jealous bulls

Debutante

Las Tientas

Baptism of blood

The jealous virgins

The hour of truth.

Notes:

Illustrated endpapers.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has manuscript note ("Her Birthday 18 November") in pencil on title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy inscribed by the author to Mary McFarland on half-title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy extra-illustrated with newspaper clippings as follows: "The brave blonde" (Time, 8 November 1954); "Out of two step" (signed Bill Graham; True, July 1955); "Pat McCormick plans return to bullfighting" (Houston press, 1955); "Patricia McCormick" (Houston Post, 7 April 1955); "'Lady bullfighter' visits, tells of 'thrill' in rings" (Houston post, 28 October 1954); "Bulls are difficult in Pat's comeback" (Houston post, 11 April 1955); "Pat McCormick resuming career" (Houston press, 4 July 1955); "Bulls shade 'matadora' from Texas" (Houston chronicle, 11 April 1955); "Just bulls, no beaus" (Houston post, 2 September 1956); "Lady bullfighter won't fight" (Houston press, 2 September 1956); "The bulls baffle brave Bertha" (Life, 16 April 1956); "Pretty Pat's a Texas torera" (by Dick Hayman; Houston chronicle rotogravure magazine, 26 September 1954); "Two American women will fight bulls" (Houston press, 6 August 1954); Pretty Bettye Ford kills two bulls" (Houston chronicle, 8 November 1954); "Famed bullfighter's aide dies in ring" (Houston chronicle, 31 January 1955); "Bullfighting gal escapes injury" (Houston chronicle 28 march 1955); "Girl bullfighter seeks $170,000" (Houston post, 1 September 1956); "She fights bulls" (Houston post magazine, 20 May 1956)..

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Schimmel, C.F. OK, I’ll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 57

OCLC:

1598790