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1937 · rif. SPANISHC016421 — Madrid. 1937-1938. Thirty-six issues - most comprising two folded sheets one inserted within the other. A daily tabloid size newspaper. This batch consists of fifteen issues from November 1937 twenty issues from December 1937 including those for 25th and 31st December and one issue from January 1938. Numerous photographs. Several issues contain as a supplement a full-page photograph or portrait issued in a series entitled ''Figuras de la Democracia Mundial'' - the ''figuras'' include Gandhi and Paderewski.Together with: ABC - Diario Illustrado. 1937. Seville. Eight issues from November and December. Falangist daily tabloid size newspaper though each issue is much more substantial than those of the Madrid ABC each consisting of twenty to thirty pages. Several black and white photographs including one of members of the Hitler Youth visiting the ruins of Toledo.This daily founded in 1903 remains one of the three newspapers of record in Spain. In July 1936 the Madrid version was seized by the Republican government with a consequent change in its political outlook while that of Seville supported the Nationalists. In 1939 the government of Franco returned the Madrid ABC to its original owners.Generally very good. Madrid. unknown