San Cristóbal de Las Casas: Taller Leñateros, 1990s. This is a group of five serigraphed announcements for publications and events, printed by Taller Leñateros, a Mayan book-arts collective in Chiapas founded by the American-born Mexican poet Ambar Past. One of the pieces prints a poem. Another has an abstract alphabet design.....
Price: $150
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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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
San Antonio de Bexar, Texas: Talleres Tipográficos de "Revista Mexicana" 1916. First Edition. This is a travelogue of a former Mexican minister of foreign affairs, who went into exile in the US following the assassination of president Francisco I. Madero. The book is presented as a series of letters to.....
Price: $300
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.....
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Mexico, D. F. Edición de el Colegio Nacional, 1946. First Edition. Trade paperback. 197 pages. One of the last novels by the author of The Underdogs (Los de abajo). "A novel that parodies the attempt of a provincial girl, Pinita, to study and improve herself"—Jean Franco, Plotting Women, p. 90.....
Price: $300
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 491 pages. Niggli's classic novel of Mexican village life. Niggli (1910–1983) was born to Anglo parents in Mexico, and for much of her childhood she went back and forth between Mexico and San Antonio. Her close connection to the.....
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New York: E. S. Mesier, Lith. 1830. 8 by 12-1/4 inches, lithographed document with inset map; completed in manuscript. In 1829, Lorenzo de Zavala (1788–1836), the secretary of the treasury of Mexico, received permission to settle 500 families on a large tract of land around Galveston Bay in what is.....
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(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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 399 pages. 7-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches. Illustrated wiht numerous photographs, drawings, and full-color reproductions of paintings. Published on the 500th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to the Americas. First US edition (first printing). Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Fuentes on the.....
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Mexico, DF: Editorial Latitudes, 1979. First Edition. Pamphlet. 26 pages. 4 by 6-1/2 inches. Coleccion El pozo y el péndulo, no. 16. Fifteen translations of Apollinaire's poems from French into Spanish. This literary series was edited by the Mexican American poet Ernesto Trejo. Published in an edition of 2000 copies but.....
Price: $30
Mexico, DF: Editorial Latitudes, 1978. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 31 pages. Poems, with a long introduction by the author. Coleccio el pozo y el pendulo, no. V. The series was edited by the Mexican American poet Ernesto Trejo. Published in an edition of 1000 copies. First edition (first printing). A......
Price: $20
