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.....

First Edition. An early Spanish-language issue of the annual report of the laws passed by the California legislature in 1857. For several decades after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the governments of the new US states and territories acquired from Mexico printed major government documents in English and Spanish translation.....

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 all the.....

89, [8] pages. 9-1/2 by 12-1/2 inches. An edition of 200 copies. The Ed. Vigía literary magazine. Mimeographed from typescript with full-page illustrations all on papel de estraza (paper made from sugarcane waste). Most illustrations with collage elements and handcoloring. The pergamino (folded broadside) is a poem by Cintio Vitier, signed.....

21 pages. 7 by 14 inches. Edition of 200 copies. Colección del San Juan. A collection of poems bound in handcolored wrappers cut out in the shape of a bird. Each copy includes a laid in faux passport for the "República del Mundo." The text and illustrations are photocopies on white.....

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.....

First Edition. A picture book about Mexico's great artist of the people. The author-artist was born in Mexico to American and Mexican parents; he attended high school and college in the US and now lives in Mexico. This book won the Tomás Rivera and Pura Belpré awards, among others. First.....

First Edition. 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; no dust jacket, as issued. Signed by Cisneros.....

First Edition. 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). Signed by the author.

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, with six copies recorded in WorldCat. 16.....

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 first collected appearance, presented with facing-page.....

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.....