First Edition. An early hardcover novel from MacDonald. This stand-alone book is a comic novel set in an art school in Cuernavaca, Mexico. According to Firsts Magazine (Nov. 2002), only 3000 copies were sold. First edition (stated first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A commemorative volume collecting Sabines's poetry, texts about the writer by others, and reproductions of many family photographs and Sabines's publications. Text in Spanish. 356 pages. 9-3/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $50
An illustrated edition of the noted Chiapan poet's first book, with color reproductions of paintings by Manuel Monroy along with the first English-language translation, by Asa Zatz, of the book, in identical format. 112 and 110 pages. 9-3/8 by 12-1/4 inches. Ojo was issued in an edition of 2000 copies; Eye.....
Price: $60
![El arco y la lira [Facsimile]. Octavio Paz](/pictures/thumb/360911.jpg?v=1635401053)
"Edición facsimilar conmemorativa 50 aniversario (1956–2006)." With the text of letters from Julio Cortázar and José Gatos about the book and a long afterword (postfacio) on the origins and reception to the book by Anthony Stanton. Text in Spanish. lv, 288 pages. 7-3/4 by 11 inches. An edition of 2000 copies.....
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First Edition. 402 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with shelfwear at the edges. This copy is inscribed by Ehrlich to his Harvard colleague, the evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould: "For Stephen Gould, with warm regards and admiration.....
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First Edition. An illustrated juvenile history of Mexico from the days of the Aztecs to the 1950s. Illustrated by Lynd Ward: "The drawings for this book were drawn directly on stone by the artist and the book was lithographed in four colors by George C. Miller." While this book was reprinted.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The music that the Mexican composer wrote for poems by well-known Spanish-language poets, including Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Octavio Paz. 100 pages. 9-3/4 by 13 inches. First edition of this collection. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Price: $75
![Tortillera [No.] 230 [Cabinet Card]. F. E. North](/pictures/thumb/308020.jpg?v=1625936411)
An original mounted albumen photograph of a woman making tortillas outdoors on a stone pavement. In the photograph she is leaning over a stone metate, grinding corn. To the left (her right) is what appears to be a flat metal sheet for cooking. She is surrounded by clay ollas and.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The first book-length study of Mexican muralists in English. The book focuses primarily on José Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera, with some coverage of other artists. xvii, 190 pages of text plus 216 black-and-white images and two full-color plates. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in decorative.....
Price: $125
A rather curious book. Published a few years after the emperor Maximilian I, who hade been installed by the French, was deposed and executed, I originally thought this was bit of anti-French propaganda. The catalog of the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico (edited by José Vigil, 1890) attributes the book to.....
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113 pages. 6-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches. One of 200 copies. Colección Paseo. Poems and prose by 20th-century authors mimeographed from typescript on coarse brown paper. The book is illustrated with decorated green and white paper cutouts as well as mounted photocopies of photographs by Olivia Manning, printed by Editorial Praxis in.....
Price: $250
First Edition. The House of Representatives prints a petition to the US Congress by the state of Kentucky to make known any information about the detention of members of the Texan-Santa Fe expedition. "It appears from authentic information that citizens of the United States, with passports from their government, duly authenticated.....
Price: $95
First Edition. The correspondance of the Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, regarding the imprisonment of Franklin Coombs and George W. Kendall, American citizens who were arrested by Mexican officials for participating in the Texan-Santa Fe expedition. 7 pages (a single sheet, folded to make 8 pages). 27th Congress, 2nd Session, House.....
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Second Edition. According to the introduction by Elena Poniatowska, this is the first book written, illustrated, and assembled by Mayans in more than 500 years ("es el primer libro escrito, ilustrado y confeccionado por el pueblo Mayo en más de 500 años..."). This historic book collects a hundred or so.....
Price: $650
Nine-page ribbon-copy typescript of an English translation of Siquieros' critical look at Soviet art in the 1950s. Based upon a limited comparison of this version with the text published in the January 1956 issue of Arte Público (México, D.F.), this is a fairly literal English rendering of Siqueiros's remarks. It.....
Price: $300
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.....
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This is a group of five serigraphed post-card-sized 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 with pieces of letter-shaped macaroni pasted on.....
Price: $150
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 have a uniform design. While.....
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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 the covers are made by different.....
Price: $40
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 that led to great wealth.....
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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 "boom" in Latinx literature, which started.....
Price: $75
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 the author's aunt, written over a year, beginning in August 1914.....
Price: $300
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 Angeles for a number of.....
Price: $125
First Edition. 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. First edition (first printing). A very good copy, with a mild.....
Price: $300
