Literature / Literatura De America Latina from Alla

NEW ~ Five-volume collection of Costa Rican Joaquin Gutierrez' (b. Limon, CR, 1918 - San Jose, 2000) essays, accompanied by a biography, photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Author of Cocori, La hoja de aire, Muramono Federico, and Communist, he arranged Iosif Grigulevich a Costa Rican passport at Teoldoro Castro in Trotskey Plot. Brand new in publishers plastic ~ Hard-to-find 5 volume set.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Attractive facsimile of this colorful manuscript from 1805 housed in the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico. Religious literature from the final years of the Spanish colonial era, including visual poems and colorfully illustrated pages. 301pp. Color. Facsimile with an informative introduction. En espanol. Hard to find. Light shelf wear to dust jacket. In stock. Usually ships… Read more about this item

Complete set --volumes 1-27-- of influential nineteenth-century Cuban Jose Marti's writing, each volume 1-26 features a particular genre or literary work(s): Letters, speeches, observations, conference essays, travel pieces, poetry, theater, novels, notebooks, fragments, etc. Volume 27: Guia, chronology, and biography. Second edition of the first published by the Editorial Nacional de Cuba, 1963-1965. Condition of books varies by volume: interior… Read more about this item

Side-by-side bilingual Maya-Spanish short traditional tales from San Miguel Acatan, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. 160pp. Illustrated. Used, but apparently unread. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Bilingual Maya-Spanish traditional stories from the linguistic community of San Pedro Soloma, Huehuetenango, Guatemala. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

Three volumes reproducing "El Editor Constitucional", the first journal to appear in Guatemala after Independence. Con un estudio preliminar por el Doctor Salvador Mendieta. Page numbers run consecutively: Tomo I: - 341pp.; Tomo II: - 592; Tomo III: - 898. En espanol. Apparently pre-owned, yet pages are uncut except for the preface. Entonso, menos el estudio preliminar. Alla pencil on… Read more about this item

Two highly significant Maya manuscripts from Indigenous Guatemala: the Memorial de Solola of the Cakchiqueles (translation to Spanish from Cakchiquel, introduction, and notes by Adrian Recinos) and the Titulo de los senores de Totonicapan (translation to Spanish from Quiche by P. Dionisio Jose Chonay, with an introduction and notes by Adrian Recinos). Published with Anexos. First edition 1940, 1st reprint… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Twenty essays on recent cultural transformations in Central America by twenty-two experts, covering the economy, society, and culture. 482pp. il. Colecion Identidad Cultural. Biographies of the authors--many academics and cultural figures as well, including Arturo Arias, John Beverley, Mario Lungo, Ileana Rodriguez, Marc Zimmerman. En espanol / Spanish. Hard to find in the U.S. In stock. Usually ships… Read more about this item

NEW ~ The savage late-nineteenth century military campaigns against an isolated millenarian community, Canudos, in the northeast Brazilian outback by eye-witness journalist Euclides da Cunha. A fascinating episode and a literary classic. Translation and with an Introduction by Samuel Putman. Reprint of the 1944 edition. Includes glossary of specialized regional terms. 532pp. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Prize-winning essay on late-twentieth century Mexican music and popular culture. Prologo de Carlos Monsivais. Obtuvo el IX Premio de Ensayo Literario Hispanoamericano Lya Kistakowsky en 2003. El jurado estuvo integrado por el Premio Nobel colombiano Gabriel Garcia Marquez, el compositor y musicologo Mario Kuri Aldana y el trovador y compositor Oscar Chavez. 205pp. Illustrations. Bibliography. In the original… Read more about this item

NEW ~ A timely novel involving a North American researcher whose interest in the famous Brazilian doctor Oswaldo Cruz gets him embroiled in the notorious early-twentieth century Revolta da Vacina, the revolt against vaccination. The popular Brazilian author, Moacyr Scliar, trained in medicine himself, takes on the problem of scientific innovation versus tradition. 221pp. Em portugues / Portuguese. In stock.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Highly-successful historical novel set in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, at the end of the seventeenth century, during a period of intense political rivalry that included the famed Jesuit Antonio Vieira and poet Gregorio de Matos. 2a ed. revista pela autora. "Com uma linguagem rica e precisa, e uma narrativa de extraordinaria agilidade...." 331pp. Em portugues / Portuguese. In stock.… Read more about this item

Classic Mexican historical novel about the cacique Cajeme and the Yaqui / Mayo uprisings in Sonora state. Ilustraciones de Andres C. Audieffred. 2a. edicion, corregida. Larger format than the 1948 Jus edition. Larger type and wide margins. Numbered edition of 1000; No. 0308 stamped colofon. In the original Spanish. Cover worn, water spot at base of spine. Alla logo… Read more about this item

PREMIO NACIONAL DE PERIODISMO. Legendaria publicacion literaria Mexicana legado de Edmundo Valades. Fundada en 1939 por Valades, publicaron 150 numeros hasta el ultimo en diciembre 1999. El consejo de redaccion incluyo los escritores mexicanos mas reconocidos. Ademas de cuentos de todo el mundo y todas las epocas, la revista ofrecio textos teoricos sobre el cuento, resenas… Read more about this item

PREMIO NACIONAL DE PERIODISMO. Legendaria publicacion literaria Mexicana legado de Edmundo Valades. Fundada en 1939 por Valades, publicaron 150 numeros hasta el ultimo en diciembre 1999. El consejo de redaccion incluyo los escritores mexicanos mas reconocidos. Ademas de cuentos de todo el mundo y todas las epocas, la revista ofrecio textos teoricos sobre el cuento, resenas… Read more about this item

NUMERO ESPECIAL 20 ANIVERSARIO. Legendaria publicacion literaria Mexicana legado de Edmundo Valades. Fundada por Valades, publicaron 150 numeros hasta el ultimo en diciembre 1999. El consejo de redaccion incluyo los escritores mexicanos mas reconocidos. Ademas de cuentos de todo el mundo y todas las epocas, la revista ofrecio textos teoricos sobre el cuento, resenas de libros, y biografias de los… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Facsimile edition of Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington's Leche del sueno, a notebook of stories and drawings created for her children, with a prologue by Ignacio Padilla, commentary by Gabriel Weisz and Alejandro Jodorowsky. 60pp. Color illustrations. Unusual publication format: Opens vertically; black cover and end papers. Cartonne slipcase. Slipcase spine lightly bent; light wear at edge.… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Anthology of stories, legends, and traditions -- a Mexican classic in a hardcover edition, "Sepan Cuantos..." 711. 307pp. En espanol. Shop inventory. Light shelf wear-erasure on front end paper and remains of a price sticker on the back, otherwise in excellent condition. In stock. Usually ships in three days.

NEW ~ Two autobiographical works by Juana Manuela Gorriti, successful nineteenth-century Argentine literary figure, who accompanied her father the Tucuman general Jose Ignacio Gorriti into exile in Bolivia, where she married Manuel Isidoro Belzu, the future president. Her life spanned nearly the entire nineteenth century and she witnessed the South American political upheavals of her day. 227pp. Coleccion Autobiografias, Memorias… Read more about this item

NEW ~ Neoclassical poetry in Brazil during the eighteenth century. Ivan Teixeira places O Uraguay by Jose Basilio da Gama in historical context and argues it celebrated Pombal, Sebastiao Jose de Carvalho e Melo. 620pp. Illustrations, many color. Bibliography. Index. Em portugues / Portuguese. A quality production--glossy paper and larger type face. Light shelf wear--minor crease in spine (this is… Read more about this item