This is the first issue of The Magazine of Mexico of which only two issues were published. Editor was Katherine Anne Porter and the first article The New Man and The New Order by Porter introduces her readers to newly elected President general Obregon.

Original, complete 72 pages in excellent condition. Bright, crisp and clean with tight spine. No tape, tears, writing, label or other defect except small light fold mark bottom right corner, very slight soiling, 1/2” scuff of spine at the bottom.

Possibly the best quality existing copy.

Photographs and story of the eruption of Popocatepetl.

Photos and article of Mexico City.

Mexican art.

Railway, Mining, Banking and oil.

Particularly interesting article about the world’s largest producing oil well at 261,000 barrels/day Cerro Azul No.4

Labor, revolution, cross-border plotting and juntas.

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In 1965, Hank Lopez, editor of Dialogos, a prominent cultural magazine in Mexico City, interviewed Katherine Anne Porter about her life in Mexico during the early 1920s and early 1930s. When he asked what prompted her to move there, she replied:

I was brought up in San Antonio, which was always full of Mexicans really in exile. . . . It was a revolutionary city, so, we kind of kept up with things in Mexico. But in New York almost the first people I ran into were all these charming young Mexican artists, and Adolfo Best-Maugard was among them. He died a few days ago; was a lifelong friend of mine from that day to this. And there was a wonderful lad—he called himself Tata Nacho [Ignacio Fernández Esperón]. He’s still living—he was at Adolfo’s funeral the other day. He was playing the piano in a Greenwich Village cabaret to make his living, and he was a great revolutionary. I was living in Greenwich Village, too, and we got to be friends: I was thinking of going to Spain. But they told me, “Don’t go to Spain. Nothing has happened there for four hundred years. In Mexico something wonderful is going to happen. Why don’t you go to Mexico?”

Porter took a train to Mexico City in October 1920 with reporting assignments from The Christian Science Monitor and the

..promise of a job as the managing editor of the new English-language Magazine of Mexico—which, alas, would lose its funding after only two issues. Soon after her arrival, she met American journalist Thorberg Haberman, editor of the English-language section of the daily Heraldo de México, and her husband, Robert, a labor organizer and speechwriter for Mexican president Alvaro Obregón. Porter soon became acquainted with Obregón, as well as many other prominent figures in the new government, the labor movement, and the press.

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