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. Thirty-four short episodes of Mexican legends in Spanish, with a vocabulary at the end. The first page of each episode is illustrated with an engraving-like illustration. In her brief preface, Borquez explains that she has collected these legends from various books on the subject published in Mexico and.....

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.....

First Edition. One of a series of groundbreaking Chicano Movement children's picture books, written and illustrated by some of the most important Chicano activist writers and artists. The author was Alurista, the main illustrator was one of the original activist-artists of Chicano Park in San Diego, Victor Orozco Ochoa. The.....

First edition. A raw, semi-autobiographical depiction of the life of a teenage Mexican boy who comes to the United States to find a better life and instead encounters seemingly endless hardship. Macho! was published as a paperback original during the brief period in the early 1970s when New York publishers.....

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.....

[39] pages. 6 by 13 inches. An edition of 60 copies. Colección Ultramar. Blanco was born in Madrid to Cuban parents who were passing through Spain on their way to the US. He grew up in Miami and became a poet. He read the poem "One Today" at Barack Obama's.....

60 pages. 8-1/2 by 11-1/4 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Aforos. A play set in 1493 as Christopher Columbus returns to Spain to report on his expedition to the New World. Text photocopied on white paper. The cover is a collage, depicting Columbus, his ship, and a portolan.....

First Edition. 10 leaves plus covers. 8 by 13 inches. One of 100 copies. A long poem printed letterpress on paper handmade, in part, from garlic leaves. The covers each have a unique monoprint by Freddy García Azze, with the back cover the reverse of the front. The design of.....

First edition. Cisneros' first children's book, illustrated by Terry Ybáñez, First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1 on the last page). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A seldom seen copy signed by both Cisneros and Ybáñez.

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.....

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.....