Mexican Small Pox Vaccine Brochure
La viruela [Smallpox]
A four-page pamphlet promoting the smallpox vaccine, printed in red and blue with a strong graphic cover. Near fine.
Price: $75
A four-page pamphlet promoting the smallpox vaccine, printed in red and blue with a strong graphic cover. Near fine.
Price: $75
First Edition. A translation of El llano en llamas (1953). 175 pages. First edition (first printing, with no statement of later printing). A very good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Fore-edge spotted, edgewear to jacket. A decent copy.
Price: $75
First Edition. An attractive promotional book illustrated with more than fifty views of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding countryside printed in duotone; each image is faced with a decorative ad page for a Rio-based business. The album presents a very interesting snapshot of the commercial culture of Brazil's primary.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A handmade artists' book interpretation of Amelia Vento Pichardo de Tápanes' 1933 collection of poems by the late, great Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez, published in an edition of 36 copies. The text is color photocopies of individual pages from an original copy of De mi jardín interior.....
Price: $500
First Edition. The noted Central American writer's first book, a collection of short stories. Monterroso (a Honduras native but a Guatemalan citizen who lived in exile in Mexico) is known for his humorous stories. This collection presages his literary career with its comic title, which translates as "Complete works (and.....
Price: $125
[32] pages plus an illustrated pergamino. 6-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches. Edition of 40 copies. Colección Puente de Hierro. Poems in Spanish and French translation. Text laserprinted. The book has collage illustrations at the front and back, and long fold-out strips attached to the cover flaps which reveal the name of.....
Price: $500
First Edition. An early book of poems (her third or fourth?), published in an edition of 300 copies. Castellanos was a major Mexican literary figure in the 20th century, part of the Generación de los 50. She died in 1974, at 49 years old, while serving as the Mexican ambassador.....
Price: $600
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 registration document for a 29-year-old enslaved woman who lived on the north coast of Puerto Rico. In 1867, in response to the American Civil War and abolitionist movements in the Spanish colonies, the Spanish crown began to limit the trade in slaves. One of the first steps was the.....
Price: $450
First Edition. Perhaps greatest Latin American novel of the 20th century--the sort of book where most Spanish speaking booklovers can quote the opening line, "Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer.....
Price: $1,500
First Edition. Mayan tales as related by Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchú to Guatemalan writer Dante Liano. Will color illustrations by Domi. 64 pages. First edition (no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Menchú, "Para Ellis con mi amor. Rigoberta. 21 abril.....
Price: $125
11 sheets, 6-3/4 by 11-3/4 inches, in a 12-1/2 by 11 inches. Published in an edition of 100 copies. Each sheet offers a traditional Cuban recipe printed letterpress on handmade paper. The recipes are inserted into a shaped folder reminiscent of a basket with a thick string handle, a mounted.....
Price: $250
Four-panel accordion structure with two fold-out illustrated pergaminos. Folder, 5-1/2 by 14-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Itinerante. A book published to celebrate the 320th anniversary of the founding of Matanzas with historical text and photographs emphasizing Cuba's bridges. A bilingual edition, with text in Spanish and English.....
Price: $150
One page (folding). 7-1/2 by 4-1/2 inches. Edition of 50 copies. Published October 11, 2014, soon after Rolando Estévez left Ediciones Vigía to form Ediciones El Fortín. The book is a single poem, reproducing Estévez's calligraphy on white paper. The text sheet is folded several times. The book is illustrated.....
Price: $300
A collection of short stories photocopied onto brown recycled paper, with interleaved collage and handcolored illustrations by Sandra Naranjo. One of the illustrations is a cut-out in the shape of a squash that folds out to reveal additional illustrations and text. A bookmark-like illustration, handcolored and assembled from two pieces.....
Price: $125
4 pages (a single, folded sheet) in an envelope. 4 by 5-1/2 inches. The edition size is not stated, but it was perhaps as small as 10 copies. A chapbook with a single short poem, in English and Spanish translation, designed by the author. The poem, titled "The Angel and.....
Price: $125
33 leaves. 12-1/2 by 13-3/4 inches. An edition of 100 copies, issued with at least two cover designs and typefaces. Poems, printed letterpress with the text set on a linotype. Bound Japanese-style. The paper is handmade from various plant and fiber sources. Six of the leaves have minimalist serigraphs made.....
Price: $250
Poems selected from Al sur de mi garganta, Las sílabas y el tiempo, Desaparece el polvo, Calzada de Tirry 81, and Los huesos alumbrados./ Foreword by Laura Ruiz./ "Edición especial por el cumpleaños 80 de la poetisa."/ Part of a collection of handmade chapbooks, many with cords for hanging (literatura.....
Price: $400
First Edition. A Mexican edition of a history of the Haitian revolution, written from the perspective of the French, who were ousted from the island following a particularly brutal and bloody conflict. The book is predictably critical of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, a leader of the revolution and the first ruler of.....
Price: $8,000
First Edition. Two bound volumes of the first two years of this scarce Mexican military periodical. According to the masthead, the magazine was published with the approval (aprobación) of the Mexican Secretary of the Army and Navy. According to the introduction, the goal of Mexico Militar was to promote the.....
Price: $1,000
Two sammelband volumes, in similar bindings, of pamphlets on military subjects, all but one published in Mexico. Three are not recorded in OCLC; a fourth is recorded only in a much later edition; a fifth is only in microfilm. Volume 1: 1. Moral Militar. Libro de los deberes del soldado.....
Price: $1,250
First Edition. A Spanish translation of Great European Conflict. Franco-Prussian War: Chassepot - Rifle vs. Zundnadelgewehr, or the Needle Gun: Real Cause of the Struggle by a Mexican army general. 208 pages plus four inserted lithographic portraits of the leaders of the conflict (including Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck).....
Price: $400
First Edition. A fortune-telling system "fixed to the meridian of Mexico" [Arreglado al meridiano de México]. Ca. 71 pages. 5-1/4 by 3-5/16 inches. Corner missing from front cover, not affecting any text, but generally very good.
Price: $75
First Edition. A very scarce Mexican spiritualism book, collecting the transcripts of six communications from the spirit world. The medium was the Mexican psychic Francisco Urgel, who worked with Refugio I. Gonzalez's spiritualist circle, La Luz (the light), in Mexico City in 1878 (though not published until eleven years later).....
Price: $500
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.....
Price: $250