![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
El Paso, TX: (n.p.), 1933. First Edition. From the early 18th century, Catholics have been prohibited from joining Masonic orders and the popularity of freemasonry in the United States seems to have generated considerable interest among Spanish speakers. At least as early as 1818 (Reflexiones imparciales sobre la frano-masonería), publishers.....
Price: $150
San Antonio: (the author), 1997. 20 by 28 inches, plus ties. This is an original artist's book / manuscript by Cisneros, handwritten in ink on a plain cloth apron. The text is the first half of the final chapter of her novel Caramelo (published five years later, in 2002, with.....
Price: $3,000
![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: 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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Las Vegas, NM: Editorial Telaraña, 1980. First edition. A collection of 15 essays written by Arthur Campa, a leading Southwestern folklorist, for the 400th anniversary of the Coronado expedition to New Mexico. These essays were commissioned by the Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Mexicano and ran during 1939. This is their.....
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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
New York: Law Brief Press, [1944]. The trial transcript of a little-known incident in de Acosta's career—her successful lawsuit against Cosmopolitan magazine for copyright infringement. In 1940, de Acosta wrote a screenplay called Angel in Service, about the life of the nurse Clara Barton, who founded the Red Cross. Two.....
Price: $850
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
New-York: Printed for, and Sold by the Authors, 1825. First Edition. With a second title page, in Spanish: La naturaleza descubierta por N. G. Dufief, en el modo con que ella enseña el lenguage a los hombres... Nueva-York: En la Imprenta de Tompkins & Floyd, 1825. Two volumes: [iii], xlvi, [viii].....
Price: $1,250
Nueva-York: En la Imprenta de Joseph Desnoues. A su costa y á la de E. Bliss y E. White, 1822. First Edition. This is one of two Spanish translations of Webb's Masonic Monitor published in the US in 1822. This one appeared in New York on November 21; the other.....
Price: $500
