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.....

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.....

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. Long blue legal.....

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.....

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.....

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 which there is no comparable account of Mexican American Protestantism in the 19th century. Rodríguez's.....

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.....

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 was part of a New.....

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 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.....