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First Edition. Prose and poetry from four Latina writers from central Texas. 55 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback). Signed by Ratliff.
Price: $25
First Edition. Prose and poetry from four Latina writers from central Texas. 55 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in wrappers (paperback). Signed by Ratliff.
Price: $25
First Edition. [8] pages. 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches. One of 100 copies. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. Not recorded on.....
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[8] pages. Poetry. Small format (4 x 5 inches). Second (?) edition; first published in 2002. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group.....
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First edition. 20 pages. 5-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches (oblong). A small book containing an elegy for the poet's mother, a farmworker who participated in the UFW strikes in the 1970s. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and.....
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First Edition. Short biographies and poems by some of the contributors to Chicken Soup for the Latino Soul. 66 pages. First edition (first printing). Fine in stapled wrappers. Signed by the editor on the title page.
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Second Edition. With seven additional poems from the first edition. One of 200 signed and numbered copies. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers.....
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115 pages. A volume of new and collected poems, including the "Sonnets to Human Beings" series, which won the National Chicano Literature Prize (commonly known as the Irvine Prize). Slightly expanded from the 2001 edition. Fine in wrappers.
Price: $15
First edition. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine.....
Price: $15
First edition. Poetry. Ratliff was born in McAllen, Texas, one of ten children in a migrant family. She was raised in California and returned to Texas as an adult, where she founded the Austin Hispanic Writers group. [8] pages. Small format (4 x 5 inches). First edition (first printing). Fine.....
Price: $15
First Edition. A collection of poems by this original and very funny Texas Chicano poet. His work is marked by the sardonic wit of which this book's title is a good example. Introduction by Juan Rodriguez, illustrated by David Ellis. 62 pages. First edition, wrappers (softcover) issue (there was also.....
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First Edition. A collection of poems, most written in the late 1970s and 1980s. Texas Chicano poet. 83 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by the author.
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First edition, hardcover issue. Hinojosa describes this un-illustrated book as "a re-creation in narrative prose of a portfolio of etchings, engravings, sketches, and silhouettes by various artists in various styles, plus a set of photographs from a familiy album." These short prose pieces build a portrait of life on the.....
Price: $75
First Edition. The first edition of Méndez's classic Chicano novel, celebrated for its experimentation with language and its stream of consciousness depiction of the US-Mexico border. Text in Spanish. 210 pages. One of 5000 copies. First edition (first printing). About very good in black wrappers with a vertical crease on.....
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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.....
Price: $650
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.....
Price: $500
First edition. A series of biographical sketches of Mexican Texans. The book attempts to counter anti-Mexican prejudice by showing how important Mexicans had been to Texas independence. It is one of a handful of books published by Mexican American authors in the 1930s. 50 pages. First edition. A fine copy.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An early Spanish-language issue of the annual report of the laws passed by the California legislature in 1857. For several decades after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the governments of the new US states and territories acquired from Mexico printed major government documents in English and Spanish translation.....
Price: $450
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.....
Price: $4,500
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.....
Price: $20
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.....
Price: $20
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).....
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First Edition. Alarcón began writing this novel while in California, and he completed it during a European trip. The novel is set in the 1920s in the Santa Clara Valley of California and its plot revolves around a Mexican immigrant's obsession with the daughter of an Italian immigrant. However, the.....
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First edition. The autobiography of one of the few Hispanic women who published during the middle of the 20th century. Jaramillo was a prominent promoter of Spanish culture in New Mexico and wrote several important books. Scarce in the first edition; the book has been reprinted a few times and.....
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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.....
Price: $100
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.....
Price: $125