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Toronto:: Coach House Press,, (1993). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of four stories by this award winning Argentian writer (in he won the 1955 of the Kraft Publishers Prize for Fiction) - includes Michel; Letter to Gianfranco; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; and the title story, The Redemption… Read more about this item

Ashland, OR:: Blackstone Publishing, , (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological… Read more about this item

New York:: Atheneum,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (some scattered marginal notations in ink). First edition. A look at the ending of slavery in Brazil in 1888, including the ideas and tactics of the abolitionists and the slaveholders' defense of their interests. A title in the "Studies in American… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1980, c 1972). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of… Read more about this item

Chusma House Publications,, (1992). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (name inside front cover) Uncommon - and especially so inscribed.. First printing, a large trade paperback original. A book which combines poetry in both Spanish and English, drawings by Montoya, song lyrics and more. Rigoberto Gonzalez noted that the title "is 'joda' as in 'twenty… Read more about this item

New York:: Penguin,, (2019). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A story of two young men, Jan and Remo, who "find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the… Read more about this item

Somerville, MA:: Candlewick Press, , (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first book for younger readers. "Andrea Hernandez-Baldoqui is well aware that teenage girls are frequently underestimated, which is why at 14 she's the perfect spy to uncover a White supremacist plot. Alongside her family -… Read more about this item

New York:: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,, (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A profile of modern Brazil - and especially an account of how the capital, Brasilia, was carved out of the center of the country between 1955 and 1960. 209 pp.

Las Vegas, NM:: New Mexico Highlands University, Division of Ethnic Studies, , 1975.. First edition -. Very good in printed brown wrappers with black cloth spine (some damage to the ends of the spine, usual toning to the pages). First printing. Includes five of the papers (4 in English, 1 in Spanish) presented at this symposium which… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA:: South End Press, (1998). Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback, 2nd printing. A collection of essays by this Puerto Rican-Jewish poet, historian and essayist. In the introduction "The Political is Personal" she notes that "The essays in this book are about the core issues in my life. They come out of a twenty-year practice… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some foxing to edges of textblock). First printing. A book which "provides the first detailed analysis of the changes that transformed one of the most important Mexican pueblos in the Southwest into a Chicano urban barrio.. . the… Read more about this item

Athens, GA:: University of Georgia Press,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which "the dominant subject - the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio - is drawn from the author's own childhood." 170 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1998.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of four generations of Cuban women in the Revuelta family, "through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture - both personal and historical - of Cuba in our century. At its center is Naty: born… Read more about this item

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1998.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. First English language edition of this classic Bolivian novel. Set in the early 1800s, this is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa, who tells… Read more about this item

Lomalinda, Meta, Colombia:: Townsend Press,, 1973.. First edition -. Good overall - some spine slant, gift inscription on first page, lower corner of back cover creased. Uncommon. . First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which grew out of the work of linguistic analysts who are trying to develop a written language which can be used… Read more about this item

Boston & New York:: David R. Godine / Avon Books,, (1985). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing to edges of textblock, appears unread). First US printing. A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in… Read more about this item

Buenos Aires: : Editorial Sudamerica, , (1991). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to the pages) . 1st trade paperback printing. En espanol. 359 pp.

Rohnert Park, California:: University Art Gallery (Sonoma State),, (1990). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. Exhibition catalog. Includes essays by Victor Alejandro Sorell and Amalia Masa-Bains,and works by twelve artists - from Juana Alicia to Judy Baca, Eva Garcia, Jose Montoya and others - with an example of their work in full… Read more about this item

Kaneohe, Hawaii:: Plover Press,, (1993). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A love story about two young Mexicans abroad, in the rainy London. Translated from the Spanish by John Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell de Aguilar. Winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. INSCRIBED on the… Read more about this item

London:: Reader's International,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First thus. Originally published in Spanish in 1957, this is considered the masterpiece of Mexico's most important woman novelist of the 20th century. Set against the Mexican Revolution in Chiapas, the southern Mexican state where Castellanos spent her childhood, and which has a strong… Read more about this item