![Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories [Advance Excerpt]. Sandra Cisneros](/pictures/thumb/306910.jpg?v=1598470228)
New York: Random House, 1991. Pamphlet. The title story from Cisneros' wonderful collection of stories, issued for publicity purposes prior to the book in wrappers (paper covers) that design very different from the published book. This format, called a blad by publishers, is much less common than the advance reading.....
Price: $20
![New Chicana/Chicano Writing, Volume 1 [Hardcover Issue]. Charles M. Tatum](/pictures/thumb/306276.jpg?v=1598470220)
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Poetry and prose anthology with contributions from Luis Omar Salinas, Francisco X. Alarcon, Gary Soto, Sandra Cisneros, Juan Felipe Herrera, and others. The scarce hardcover issue; also issued in wrappers (paperback). 185 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy;.....
Price: $25
![Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories [Advance Excerpt]. Sandra Cisneros](/pictures/thumb/14350.jpg?v=1598470217)
New York: Random House, 1991. Pamphlet. The title story from Cisneros' wonderful collection of stories, issued for publicity purposes prior to the book in wrappers (paper covers) that design very different from the published book. This format, called a blad by publishers, is much less common than the advance reading.....
Price: $20
San Antonio: Penca Books, 1978. First edition. Trade paperback. 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.....
Price: $30
Los Angeles: 1853–1854. Various sizes, most roughly 7-1/2 by 25 inches; on blue paper, folded and docketed. The documents offer a glimpse into the lives of four Mexican Americans living in southern California shortly after it became part of the United States.: 1) Preemption claim of Gerónimo Ybarra, dated December 29, 1853.....
Price: $1,500
San Antonio: M & A Editions, 1977. First Edition. Pamphlet. 31 pages. Poems in Spanish and English. The author's first book, published in an edition of fewer than 500 copies by the poets Angela de Hoyos and Moisés Sandoval. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).....
Price: $30
![California la bella [Second issue]. Abel Alarcón](/pictures/thumb/306011.jpg?v=1597984272)
Madrid: Renacimiento, 1926. 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.....
Price: $125
Santa Fe, NM: (the author), 1947. 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.....
Price: $50
San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 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.....
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Santa Fe: Historical Society of New Mexico, 1911. First edition. Pamphlet. This pamphlet explores the influence of indigenous languages and English on the Spanish spoken in New Mexico and Colorado, as well as the impact of Spanish on the English spoken in the same region. The paper concludes with a......
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San Francisco: Poetasumanos Press, 1981. Pamphlet. Seven of 8 issues of the second and final year of this Latino poetry broadside series founded by the first Latino US Poet Laureate. Each a single sheet, folded in half to 5-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Poetasumanos was a Latino writing collective based in the.....
Price: $500
Nashville, Tenn. and Dallas, Tex. Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, [n.d. but 1907]. First Edition. The Old Guide is one of the earliest memoirs by a Mexican immigrant and it is particularly interesting for Rodriguez's first-hand accounts of early Texas state history and for his religious work, for.....
Price: $2,750
![Report of the Governor of New Mexico]. Miguel A. Otero](/pictures/thumb/306012.jpg?v=1597107796)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903. First edition. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with an overview of the counties and towns (308 pages); industrial development; the doings of federal officials in the territory; and reports of territorial officials. Otero, in office as the territorial governor.....
Price: $150
San Francisco de California: The History Company, 1891. First Edition. A very scarce and little-known San Francisco Spanish imprint. This is the first of four beginning readers for Spanish-speakers, illustrated with engravings likely made for other publications. Trigo's text, which relies on rhyme and repetitive sounds, name-checks many Spanish-speaking countries.....
Price: $125
Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1962. 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.....
Price: $100
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1897. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with department-by-department reports from the various government offices, with the most space devoted to mining. Otero, in office as the territorial governor for nine years, remains the longest-serving Latinx governor in US history. He.....
Price: $75
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. A detailed survey of the conditions in the Territory of New Mexico, with department-by-department reports from the various government offices, with the most space devoted to mining. Otero, in office as the territorial governor for nine years, remains the longest-serving Latinx governor in US history. He.....
Price: $75
Santa Fe: Compañía Impresora del Nuevo Mexicano, 1897. 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.....
Price: $125
Santa Fe: Compañía Impresora del Nuevo Mexicano, 1897. 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.....
Price: $125
Washington DC: House of Representatives, 1884. First Edition. A scarce look at nuevomexicano life in the mid-19th century. Very few accounts by Mexican Americans are known from the nineteenth century and much of what survives was written later. However one seldom-tapped resource are the records of the New Mexican contested.....
Price: $500
Alamagordo, NM: Bennett Printing Company, 1966. 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.....
Price: $75
Nueva York: Por Roberto McDermut en la Imprenta de Jorge Long, 1810. First Edition. The first book printed in Spanish in New York (according to the author on p. 310, and your cataloguer has not located an earlier book). Elementos is also arguably the first book by a Mexican American.....
Price: $4,500
Santa Fe: Santa Fe New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1928. 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.....
Price: $50
San Francisco de California: The History Company, 1891. First Edition. 208 pages. A very scarce San Francisco Spanish imprint, with four copies located in OCLC. Trigo's Moral téorico-práctica, the title of which translates to something like, "General Instruction and Theoretical and Practical Morals for Schools and Families", is a curious work.....
Price: $250
Santa Fe, NM: Compañía Impresora del Nuevo Mexicano, 1911. First Edition. The second history of New Mexico written from the perspective of its Latinx residents (following De Thoma's 19th century book) and the first by a native nuevomexicano. This is a very scarce book. The English-language edition, translated by Eleuterio.....
Price: $2,250
