First Edition. A very scarce landmark in Latinx historical writing. Francisco de Thomas was the "first Nuevomexicano to narrate New Mexico's Spanish past and to encourage Nuevomexicano pride" and this book was "the first comprehensive Spanish-language history of New Mexico following the American conquest." De Thoma's goal was "to present.....

First Edition. Thirty-four short episodes of Mexican legends in Spanish, with a vocabulary at the end. The first page of each episode is illustrated with an engraving-like illustration. In her brief preface, Borquez explains that she has collected these legends from various books on the subject published in Mexico and.....

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.....

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.....

Nearly four dozen early 20th century images of Mexican American neighborhoods centered around Baptist churches and missions. Photographs documenting any aspect of Mexican American life from a century ago are decidedly uncommon. These slides, numbered 1 to 54, lacking ten images scattered throughout the sequence, document Mexican American Baptist churches.....

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.....

First edition. A rich anthology which includes many of the most prominent Chicano writers of the time, Ricardo Sánchez (excerpts from his doctoral disseration), Abelardo Delgado (poems and prose), Rolando Hinojosa (poetry), Lorna Dee Cervantes (preceding her first book), José Antonio Burciaga, and many others. 107 pages. First edition (first printing).....

First Edition. A pamphlet, in Spanish, in support of the New Mexico penitentes, a group of lay Catholics who practice self-flagellation during pilgrimage walks. Trujillo offers an explanation of the practice, defines terms, and gives a history of the group in New Mexico. Uncommon, with six copies recorded in WorldCat. 16.....

192 pages. The first of many reprints of this collection of reminiscences on the culture and history of Spanish New Mexico written by an early Chicana writer. This book has a troubled history with Chicano scholars because class issues. Otero was a well-off New Mexican from a prominent family (her cousin.....

First edition, Spanish-language issue. The laws enacted by the territorial legislature in 1897 and translated into Spanish. A scarce territorial imprint, especially in the Spanish translation. For many decades, the territorial and then the state government of New Mexico published most government reports in both English and Spanish. As artifacts.....

First Edition. A novella of the Cristero uprising in Jalisco, Mexico, in the late 1920s. Candelaria, a native of New Mexico, wrote a number of books on New Mexico history. This appears to be his first published work, a little-known Chicano novel pre-dating the "boom" in Latinx literature, which started.....

First Edition. A report by the third generation of Miguel Antonio Oteros to serve in New Mexican politics. In his introductory message, Otero describes the nineteenth-century-style operations of New Mexico's fiscal accounting and reports on new electric machines he installed. 94 pages. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).....

First Edition. A very scarce Spanish-language issue of the daily minutes of the New Mexican territorial House of Representatives during the 1907 term. For many decades, the government of New Mexico issued publications in both Spanish and English. The role the Spanish translations played in New Mexican government and legal.....