Fresno Poet's Scarce Chapbook
Instrucciones y señales
Publication: México [Mexico City]: La Máquina Eléctrica Editorial, 1977. First Edition.
Notes: A signed copy of this chapbook of poems published in an edition of 500 copies. Trejo was one of the fine Chicano poets to come out of Fresno in the 1970s.
Trejo (1950–1991) was born in Mexico and emigrated to Fresno, California, as a teenager. He met Luis Omar Salinas and took writing classes with Philip Levine at Fresno State College (now University). His first book appearance came in a chapbook put together by Gary Soto in 1975, Entrance: Four Chicano Poets.
[40] pages, reproduced from typescript. Uncommon.
SOURCE: A duplicate from a Latin American literature collector who also sent me books by Guillén and Padilla. Since I spent a big chunk of my childhood in Fresno, I always keep an eye out for books from the Fresno poets; I've never had a copy of this title before.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing, stating "primera edición). This is copy 250 of 500 numbered copies; it is signed by Trejo on the title page. This is a very good or better copy, with minor wear at the corners, a small hole in the first leaf (a blank sheet of yellow paper serving as a flyleaf of sorts). With the blindstamp of Chicano scholar Enrique Lamadrid.
Item No: #363816
Price: $150