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.....

First Edition. A scarce, early novel by a Latina writer. O'Shea's novel is narrated by a mesquite tree growing in South Texas over three-and-a-half centuries, from the first arrival of Spanish explorers in south Texas to the twentieth century. Texas A&M University Press republished the book in 2000, and offered.....

First Edition. In her introduction to this reader, Borquez claims that half of these Spanish short stories included were written by her students in the Los Angeles Ebell women's club (presumably with help from their teacher). A quarter of the book is filled with short prose pieces illustrated with in-text.....

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.....

10 leaves plus covers. 8 by 13 inches. One of 100 copies. A long poem printed letterpress on paper handmade, in part, from garlic leaves. The covers each have a unique monoprint by Freddy García Azze, with the back cover the reverse of the front. The design of all the covers is.....

A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and thus the.....

First edition. A raw, semi-autobiographical depiction of the life of a teenage Mexican boy who comes to the United States to find a better life and instead encounters seemingly endless hardship. Macho! was published as a paperback original during the brief period in the early 1970s when New York publishers.....

87 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. The Ediciones Vigía literary magazine. Mimeographed from typescript with full-page illustrations all on papel de estraza (paper made from sugarcane waste). For this issue, a collection of labels from a 19th century Matanzas pharmacy were reproduced as facsimiles and are.....

[39] pages. 6 by 13 inches. An edition of 60 copies. Colección Ultramar. Blanco was born in Madrid to Cuban parents who were passing through Spain on their way to the US. He grew up in Miami and became a poet. He read the poem "One Today" at Barack Obama's second.....

60 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Aforos. A play set in 1493 as Christopher Columbus returns to Spain to report on his expedition to the New World. Text photocopied on white paper. The cover is a collage, depicting Columbus, his ship, and a portolan map.....

First Edition. 10 leaves plus covers. 8 by 13 inches. One of 100 copies. A long poem printed letterpress on paper handmade, in part, from garlic leaves. The covers each have a unique monoprint by Freddy García Azze, with the back cover the reverse of the front. The design of all the.....

First edition. Cisneros' first children's book, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez, First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A seldom seen copy signed by both Cisneros and Ybáñez.

The title story from Cisneros' wonderful collection of stories, issued for publicity purposes prior to the book in wrappers (paper covers) with a design very different from the published book. This format, called a blad by publishers, is much less common than the advance reading copy of the entire book.....