First edition. Cisneros' third poetry collection, which was reprinted within a month of publication. xii, 115 pages. First edition (stated). Fine in fine jacket. Signed by Cisneros on the title page.
Price: $30
First Edition. One of the last volumes of California laws officially translated into Spanish, here by José Francisco Godoy, the most prolific of 19th century Mexican American writers. Godoy was born in Mexico in 1851. With his family, he moved to San Francisco in 1864, when his father took the.....
Price: $300
First edition. An important early work by this pioneering Chicano poet who was one of the first to explore the Mayan and Aztec roots of Chicano culture. Fifteen years ago, I offered the opinion that of the early Chicano Movement poetry collections, this was the easiest to find; but no.....
Price: $300
First Edition. An English-language version of a novel of Cesar, Cleopatra, and Jesus by a popular Spanish author. The translator, Adéle Godoy, was a member of the most literary Mexican American family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her parents and siblings published novels, plays, translations, poetry, newspapers.....
Price: $300
Three letters, each on a different style of letterhead, written in Baca's capacity as the attorney for various parties. In one letter, Baca requests the current status of a case; in another he requests a correction to a decree sent to one of his clients, and in the third he.....
Price: $750
First Edition. A collection of Spanish-language sayings and riddles, collected by a Mexican American entrepreneur of the early 20th century. Most of the proverbs are presented in Spanish with English equivalents; the riddles and humorous tombstone epitaphs are only in Spanish. Maria Aurelia Borquez (Tucson, AZ, 1872 – Houston, 1965).....
Price: $250
First Edition. 551 pages. One of the breakout Chicano novels of the 1990s, a heartfelt and mystical family saga of Mexican immigrants in the US. First edition (first printing). Fine in a fine jacket. The book has virtualy no fading or wear to the jacket. Quite uncommon in this condition--the.....
Price: $50
First Edition. The author's last and perhaps best book, published just six days before he died. "Considered by some to be his masterpiece, Golondrina was the second of Torres’s novels to explore the effects of large-scale Mexican immigration to the United States. In Golondrina, Torres painted the picture of the.....
Price: $200
First edition. This is one of a handful of mid-century books published in an attempt to paint a more positive picture of Mexican Americans in US history. Here Canales reprints and annotates two historical essays documenting Mexican American participation in the Texas war for independence. Canales particularly wants to refute.....
Price: $250
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.....
Price: $250
This portrait of the leader of the raid on the Rio Arriba County Courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, was issued while Tijerina was still being sought by law enforcement. The raid was part of an extended effort to press claims to old Spanish land grants. This photograph ran in.....
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First Edition. Winner of the first Premio Quinto Sol for Chicano literature, and in print pretty much continuously since, with several different English translations, this is probably the first enduring classic of the Chicano Civil Rights era. This novel, in the form of vignettes written in Spanish, with English translations.....
Price: $500
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.....
Price: $200
First edition. The author's first book, number 8 in the Chicano Chapbook series, published by the poets Lorna Dee Cervantes and Gary Soto. Unpaginated but 12 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Price: $2,000
First Edition. A volume from the library of Romualdo Pacheco, the first Latinx governor of California. Pacheco (1831–1899) was born in Santa Barbara, California, when the town was part of Mexico. He was a leading political figure in his day, serving in many elected state offices and as a diplomat.....
Price: $125
First Edition. The program of a memorial service for de Hoyos, with a biography and consideration of de Hoyos's poetry by Milligan and an afterword by Carmen Tafolla. Illustrated in color with images of de Hoyos's books, books she published as M & A Editions, and reproductions of her artwork.....
Price: $30
Essays on the Bible from the "M" in the Chicano press, M & A Editions, which Sandoval ran with his wife, the Chicana poet Angela de Hoyos. No copies located in OCLC. 32, 22 leaves (printed rectos or front side only). Illustrated in color. A near fine copy in wrappers.....
Price: $50
First Edition. A picture book (semi-autobiographical) about a young girl whose aunt is about to become a naturalized US citizen. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). Corners bumped, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author and her daughter, the illustrator: "To dear.....
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First Edition. An uncommon chapbook of poems by the late Latino writer. 39 pages (folded sheet laid into printed covers; not stapled, as issued). First edition (first printing). Near fine.
Price: $75
This powerful epic poem, in parallel English and Spanish versions, was the literary manifesto for the Chicano movement. It was widely read and performed during the late 1960s and early 1970s, bringing together literature and politics, the hallmark of Chicano political movements for many years thereafter. The book was widely.....
Price: $125
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.....
Price: $20
[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.....
Price: $10
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.....
Price: $15
