First edition. Cisneros' third poetry collection, which was reprinted within a month of publication. xii, 115 pages. First edition (stated). Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Cisneros on the title page.
Price: $30
First Edition. One of the last volumes of California laws officially translated into Spanish, here by José Francisco Godoy, the most prolific of 19th century Mexican American writers. Godoy was born in Mexico in 1851. With his family, he moved to San Francisco in 1864, when his father took the.....
Price: $300
First edition. An important early work by this pioneering Chicano poet who was one of the first to explore the Mayan and Aztec roots of Chicano culture. Fifteen years ago, I offered the opinion that of the early Chicano Movement poetry collections, this was the easiest to find; but no.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An English-language version of a novel of Cesar, Cleopatra, and Jesus by a popular Spanish author. The translator, Adéle Godoy, was a member of the most literary Mexican American family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her parents and siblings published novels, plays, translations, poetry, newspapers.....
Price: $300
Three letters, each on a different style of letterhead, written in Baca's capacity as the attorney for various parties. In one letter, Baca requests the current status of a case; in another he requests a correction to a decree sent to one of his clients, and in the third he.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A collection of Spanish-language sayings and riddles, collected by a Mexican American entrepreneur of the early 20th century. Most of the proverbs are presented in Spanish with English equivalents; the riddles and humorous tombstone epitaphs are only in Spanish. Maria Aurelia Borquez (Tucson, AZ, 1872 – Houston, 1965).....
Price: $250
First Edition. 551 pages. One of the breakout Chicano novels of the 1990s, a heartfelt and mystical family saga of Mexican immigrants in the US. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine jacket. The book has virtualy no fading or wear to the jacket. Quite uncommon in this condition--the.....
Price: $50
First Edition. According to the introduction, this is the first treatise on the law of extradition to be written in Spanish. The author, the son of a Mexican newspaper owner and an American mother, obtained his law degree in San Francisco and practiced there (while becoming a naturalized American citizen).....
Price: $150
A single issue of this short-lived community newspaper which sprang up in San Francisco's Mission District to gather support for Los Siete, a group of Latinos who were then under arrest for the murder of a police officer. The men were ultimately acquitted. This issue includes interviews with the defendants.....
Price: $200
First Edition. An offprint from the Fortnightly Review, in which the leading Mexican American historian of his time argues that Native Americans and African slaves were treated better in Spanish America than in the United States. His view of the enslaved people is best expressed by quoting his summary of.....
Price: $250
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. The.....
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First Edition. A court filing in one of the countless legal cases that embroiled Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, in his later years. This proceeding seems to involve a statute of limitations issue for a case accusing Pico of misappropriating funds. An uncommon, early Los Angeles imprint. The.....
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A biography of Jesus for young readers published in Spanish in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1920s. The author was born in Mexico but lived in the United States off and on for a number of years. He was a politician and a writer who started a magazine in San.....
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First Edition. The author's last and perhaps best book, published just six days before he died. "Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Golondrina was the second of Torres’s novels to explore the effects of large-scale Mexican immigration to the United States. In Golondrina, Torres painted the picture of the.....
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First edition. This is one of a handful of mid-century books published in an attempt to paint a more positive picture of Mexican Americans in US history. Here Canales reprints and annotates two historical essays documenting Mexican American participation in the Texas war for independence. Canales particularly wants to refute.....
Price: $250
A poster publicizing the grape boycott led by Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers by one of the best-known graphic designers of the era. The artwork depicts a bunch of grapes in the shape of a skull with a Chavez quote at the bottom taken from the Plan of.....
Price: $500
First edition. An important history of New Mexico from the perspective of the Spanish American founders of the state. Read, a historian and politician, was born to an Anglo father and a Mexican mother. He spoke and frequently wrote in Spanish and was an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish culture in.....
Price: $250
This portrait of the leader of the raid on the Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, was issued while Tijerina was still being sought by law enforcement. The raid was part of an extended effort to press claims to old Spanish land grants. This photograph ran in.....
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First Edition. Winner of the first Premio Quinto Sol for Chicano literature, and in print pretty much continuously since, with several different English translations, this is probably the first enduring classic of the Chicano Civil Rights era. This novel, in the form of vignettes written in Spanish, with English translations.....
Price: $500
First edition. An important history of New Mexico from the perspective of the Spanish American founders of the state. Read, a historian and politician, was born to an Anglo father and a Mexican mother. He spoke and frequently wrote in Spanish and was an enthusiastic promoter of Spanish culture in.....
Price: $200
First edition. The author's first book, number 8 in the Chicano Chapbook series, published by the poets Lorna Dee Cervantes and Gary Soto. Unpaginated but 12 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Price: $2,000
First Edition. A volume from the library of Romualdo Pacheco, the first Latinx governor of California. Pacheco (1831–1899) was born in Santa Barbara, California, when the town was part of Mexico. He was a leading political figure in his day, serving in many elected state offices and as a diplomat.....
Price: $125
Second printing (the first was 1889) A translation into Spanish of Russell's shipwreck adventure, A Sailor's Sweetheart (1880). This is one of a series of novels Appleton published in Spanish translation in the 1880s and 1890s. The translator was an immigrant from Spain who arrived in the US about 1883.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A stand-alone story issued as a promotional item prior to the book's publication. The cover title reads, "Riverhead Books presents a story from This Is How You Lose Her." In 2019, Díaz's UK publisher issued this story as a one-off chapbook. This US edition obviously pre-dates it and.....
Price: $30
