Principados y potestades [Principles and Powers] (First Mexican Edition) de Carlos Monsivais (author); Hector Garcia (photographs) - 1969

Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook." Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. 

A private edition published by a prominent Mexico City bookstore and distributed gratis to its clients, making it extremely scarce, with only four copies located in OCLC. Republished in 1970 as part of Monsivais' "Dias de guardar."

Near Fine in perfect bound wrappers.

Fernandez, The Latin American Photobook,p. 232, 234.