First Edition. The classic study of border life and song. Paredes, the leading folklorist of US-Mexico border region, tells the compelling story of Gregorio Cortez who killed a sheriff in self-defense and became a hero through dozens of ballads and songs. Still in print, in the Texas Classics series, after.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

First Edition. "Chico, who found tender lover in its back alleys, who knew there was another life beyond the block's squalor and struggled to find it—until Spanish Harlem sucked him back to its depths." One of the few Latino-themed juvenile delinquent pulps. First edition (first printing stated). A very good.....

First Edition. Volume III of the Nuevos documentos ineditos o muy raros para la historia de México, second series. Doblado was a native of Guanajuato and an active participant in the Reform War on the side of Benito Juárez. This volume prints transcriptions of letters written to Doblado. The Nuevos.....

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.....

A rare original cabinet card of the most well-known portrait of the anarchist and radical labor organizer Lucy Parsons, taken by German immigrant photographer Louis Gogler. Gogler operated a large studio in the Bowery neighborhood in New York City but Parsons obtained the copyright for the image and thus the.....

87 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. The Ediciones Vigía literary magazine. Mimeographed from typescript with full-page illustrations all on papel de estraza (paper made from sugarcane waste). For this issue, a collection of labels from a 19th century Matanzas pharmacy were reproduced as facsimiles and.....