Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. A portrait of rich environmental and cultural heritage of the Amazon, told through oral histories, stories, and published accounts. The author is a Brazil expert at UC Berkeley and did extensive field work in South America. 332 pages. First edition (first printing.....
Price: $75
Guadalajara, Mexico: La Rueda Cartonera, 2011. Poems published in a cartonera edition of 50 copies. This is a revised and expanded version ("edición corregida y ampliada") of a previously published collection. 44 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive.....
Price: $30
Guadalajara, Mexcio: La Rueda Cartonera, 2010. Poems published in an edition of 75 copies in cartonera format. 61 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are.....
Price: $30
Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Cartonera, 2011. Poems published in an edition of 125 copies in cartonera format. 44 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made.....
Price: $30
Querétaro, México: Mamá Dolores Cartonera, 2012. An anthology of texts of different types loosely focused on cartonera publishing. This is one of 30 copies of the second edition. The sheets are laid into the covers only; they are not bound. 46 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about.....
Price: $30
Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera, 2010. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and.....
Price: $30
Guadalajara ("Guanatos"), Mexico: Ediciones El Viaje and La Rueda Cartonera, 2012. Poems from a cartonera publisher but bound without any cardboard. This copy was issued in cloth wrappers, with sewn cover decorations. The flyleafs are newspaper and the section divider is a piece of printed cloth. An interesting adaptation of.....
Price: $95
Cuernavaca, Mexico: La Ratona Cartonera, 2010. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 34 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and seldom.....
Price: $30
Guadalajara ("Guanatos"), Mexico: La Rueda Cartonera, 2012. Poems in cartonera (cardboard) covers. 32 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers are made by different people and.....
Price: $30
Guanajuato, Mexico: La Milpa Cartonera, 2014. A poetry anthology photocopied on white paper and sewn into cartonera (cardboard) covers. [2], 22 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently.....
Price: $40
Guanajuato, Mexico: La Milpa Cartonera, 2014. Poems photocopied on white paper and sewn into cartonera (cardboard) covers. [2], 7 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers.....
Price: $40
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico: Ediciones HtuRquesa, 2011. First Edition. Poems in a cartonera edition limited to 300 copies. 99 pages. Cartonera is a publishing movement started in Argentina about 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring poetry, print inexpensive chapbooks and bind them with repurposed cardboard with hand-decorated covers. Frequently the covers.....
Price: $30
Buenos Ayres (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Imprenta del Estado, 1827. First Edition. One of several heated political jeremiads issued by competing factions in Buenos Aires after the collapse of the administration of Argentina's first president, Bernardino Rivadavia, in June 1827. On September 14, Manuel Dorrego, the governor of Buenos Aires published a......
Price: $300
Buenos Aires: Juan Roldan, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to.....
Price: $500
Buenos Aires: Juan Roldan, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces the history of homosexuality to.....
Price: $750
New York: (the author), 1917. First Edition. The American representative of the Comisión Reguladora del Mercado de Henequen [Regulatory Commission of the Sisal Fiber Market] narrates his actions in the US, from 1915 to 1917. The Mexican Revolution broke the US monopoly on sisal fiber cultivation in Yucatán, Mexico, and.....
Price: $65
Filadelfia: Imprenta de A. Walker, 1839. 199 pages. Miguel Tacón was a controversial governor of Cuba from 1834 to 1838. He initiated many public works, especially in Havana, but he also repressed dissent, encouraged the traffic in slaves, and was seen by many as a despot. At the end of.....
Price: $250
Los Angeles: Wayside Press, [1920]. First Edition. A collection of essays critical of the Mexican constitution, originally published in the Revista mexicana, a Spanish-language weekly in San Antonio, Texas. Vera Estañol was for a time an education minister in Mexico, during the Huerta administration. He went into exile in Los.....
Price: $125
Nueva York [New York]: Imprenta de Hallet & Breen, 1869. First Edition. A collection of eight reports from the Virreyes of Nuevo Granada (modern day Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador), compiled by the then-Minister Plenipotentary of Colombia, stationed in Washington, DC. García y García collected these reports in South American and.....
Price: $125
New York: John Lane Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. 132 pages. A collection of poems written in English while the Nicaragua native was living in the United States. The book was reissued in in 1999 by Arte Publico Press in its Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage series. According to.....
Price: $200
Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, 1958. First Edition. 274 pages. Poems selected from eight previous books. Lisboa (1901–1985) was a Brazilian poet who was awarded the Premio Machado de Assis for lifetime achievement the year before she died. First edition (first printing). Front wrapper slighly discolored, else very.....
Price: $50
Buenos Aires: Juan Roldan, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 242 pages. Text in Spanish. A criminologist describes criminal activities and criminals in Buenos Aires, with chapters on professional criminals, thieves and loan sharks, prostitution, pimps (the "parasites of prostitution"), vagrancy, faith healers, and of greatest current interest, homosexuality. Gomez first traces.....
Price: $750
(México): Joaquín Mortiz, (1967). First edition. Trade paperback. 137 pages. An experimental novel in the form of short stories, poems, dialogs, dictionary definitions, and other unusual forms. An early book from this important Mexican writer. Published in an edition of 4200 copies. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This copy is.....
Price: $60
Rio de Janeiro: Sabia, 1971. First Edition. Trade paperback. 159 pages. Short stories, in Portuguese. First edition (first printing). Very good or better in publisher's illustrated wrappers.
Price: $25
Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandragora, 1941. First Edition. Pamphlet. 23 pages. Poems by the Chilean Surrealist and founder of the Grupo Mandragora. An uncommon collection of Latin American Surrealist poetry. Near fine in wrappers (pamphlet).
Price: $125
