1003 pages. Very good. No dust jacket. 16th impression. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown, "J. M. Scudder."

First Edition. The likely first edition of the second, Mexican American cookbook, which was issued by William Gebhardt, one of the leading manufacturers of chili powder and related products in the first half of the 20th century. This dated edition appears to preced the digitized version and the 2005 reprint.....

This is one of the most interesting Cuadernos Papiro books combining letterpress printing with found objects and showing formal inventiveness and great harmony between the artistic and literary elements. Of the books published by Cuadernos Papiro, this one perhaps adheres closest to the North American definition of an artist's book.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

49 pages plus index and colophon leaves. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Edition of 200 numbered copies. Colección del Estero series. Stapled pages glued into stiff wrappers that fold around the spine and fore-edge to meet in the middle of the front cover. The cover includes a collaged heart design that.....

11 pages. 6-1/2 by 8-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A poem, designed by Vicente Enríquez Landín, with a particularly effective portrait of the composer pasted onto the front cover. OCLC: BNCJM CRU CSL CUI CUZ DEIAI DLC DRB EEM FHM FQG FUG GZN IND IQU.....

A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....

First Edition. The first collection of short stories by a Japanese American writer in English. The stories are interconnected and offer an intimate look at Issei and Nisei family life in the 1920s and 1930s. The book was scheduled for publication in 1942, but it was postponed by the outbreak.....

First Edition. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....

First Edition. The title of this book translates literally as "Guide for Japanese Immigration to Mexico", which is misleading, hence the supplied translation which better explains the purpose of the book. In the late 1920s, following a succession of racist and anti-Japanese laws passed in the US Congress and in.....

Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....