First Edition. A picture book, winner of many awards, including the Pura Belpré, Tomás Rivera, Jane Addams, and the Américas award. The author-artist was born in Mexico to American and Mexican parents; he attended high school and college in the US and now lives in Mexico. This book won the.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A collection of religious and devotional poems by a 19th century Mexican poet. He wrote the poems for his grandchildren and the manuscript remained unpublished when he died in 1910. This is one of the most attractive books, printed in yellow and black, from Casa Editorial Lozano, which.....
Price: $250
First Edition. Sarmiento, the Plenipotentiary Minister to the United States from Argentina, "arrived in New York a month after the assassination of the American president. He was moved by the nation’s mourning and resolved to write a biography of the fallen leader. Sarmiento, who believed in biography’s teaching by example.......
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First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa, along.....
Price: $200
An American edition, in Spanish, of the collected poems of a 19th century Mexican writer. An uncommon US Spanish imprint of what must have been a popular book in the Spanish-speaking community in the United States. OCLC has several records for this book, dated 1919, 1920, and like this one.....
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This powerful epic poem, in parallel English and Spanish versions, was the literary manifesto for the Chicano movement. It was widely read and performed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing together literature and politics, the hallmark of Chicano political movements for many years thereafter. The book was widely.....
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First Thus. A rather curious Spanish-language imprint from Massachusetts, and not the more typical Philadelphia and New York. This is a translation of the diplomat Alexander Hill Everett's 1827 book, America: Or, a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent, with Conjectures on.....
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First Edition. The classic study of border life and song. Paredes, the leading folklorist of US-Mexico border region, tells the compelling story of Gregorio Cortez who killed a sheriff in self-defense and became a hero through dozens of ballads and songs. Still in print, in the Texas Classics series, after.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Prose and poetry from four Latina writers from central Texas. 55 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback). Signed by Ratliff.
Price: $25
First Edition. [8] pages. 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches. One of 100 copies. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. Not recorded on.....
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[8] pages. Poetry. Small format (4 x 5 inches). Second (?) edition; first published in 2002. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group.....
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First edition. 20 pages. 5-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches (oblong). A small book containing an elegy for the poet's mother, a farmworker who participated in the UFW strikes in the 1970s. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and.....
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First Edition. Short biographies and poems by some of the contributors to Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul. 66 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in stapled wrappers. Signed by the editor on the title page.
Price: $25
![Item No: #306618 Jardín de poesía [Second edition]. Anjela Villarreal Ratliff](/pictures/thumb/306618.jpg?v=1669929312)
Second Edition. With seven additional poems from the first edition. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers.....
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![Item No: #306612 Sonnets and Salsa [Revised and Expanded]. Carmen Tafolla](/pictures/thumb/306612.jpg?v=1669929305)
115 pages. A volume of new and collected poems, including the "Sonnets to Human Beings" series, which won the National Chicano Literature Prize (commonly known as the Irvine Prize). Slightly expanded from the 2001 edition. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $15
First edition. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine.....
Price: $15
First edition. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine.....
Price: $15
First Edition. A collection of poems, most written in the late 1970s and 1980s. Texas Chicano poet. 83 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author.
Price: $25
First edition, hardcover issue. Hinojosa describes this un-illustrated book as "a re-creation in narrative prose of a portfolio of etchings, engravings, sketches, and silhouettes by various artists in various styles, plus a set of photographs from a familiy album." These short prose pieces build a portrait of life on the.....
Price: $75
First Edition. The first edition of Méndez's classic Chicano novel, celebrated for its experimentation with language and its stream of consciousness depiction of the US-Mexico border. Text in Spanish. 210 pages. One of 5000 copies. First edition (first printing). About very good in black wrappers with a vertical crease on.....
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First Edition. "Chico, who found tender lover in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it—until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths." One of the few Latino-themed juvenile delinquent pulps. First edition (first printing stated). A very good.....
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First Edition. A very scarce landmark in Latinx historical writing. Francisco de Thomas was the "first Nuevomexicano to narrate New Mexico's Spanish past and to encourage Nuevomexicano pride" and this book was "the first comprehensive Spanish-language history of New Mexico following the American conquest." De Thoma's goal was "to present.....
Price: $650
First Edition. Volume III of the Nuevos documentos ineditos o muy raros para la historia de México, second series. Doblado was a native of Guanajuato and an active participant in the Reform War on the side of Benito Juárez. This volume prints transcriptions of letters written to Doblado. The Nuevos.....
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This is the most dramatic and attractive publication from the Free Los Siete incident and one of most decorative pieces of Chicano protest material from the period. The folio-sized publication is printed on a single sheet of newsprint folded to make four pages. One side is printed in orange, green.....
Price: $500
First edition. A series of biographical sketches of Mexican Texans. The book attempts to counter anti-Mexican prejudice by showing how important Mexicans had been to Texas independence. It is one of a handful of books published by Mexican American authors in the 1930s. 50 pages. First edition. A fine copy.....
Price: $300
