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.....
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First Edition. A monograph on Olmec ceramics (text in Spanish). With 171 illustrations, most in color. 219 pages. Published in an edition of 1200 copies. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, faded to tan at the spine.
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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 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. Near.....
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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 made by different people and seldom.....
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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 by different people and seldom.....
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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 2003. Small press publishers, mostly featuring.....
Price: $30
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.....
Price: $30
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 the cartonera principal of repurposing discarded materials. 57 pages. Cartonera is a......
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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 cartonera.....
Price: $30
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 seldom have a uniform design. While cartonera.....
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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
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 are made by different people and.....
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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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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.....
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First Edition. 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 land of her birth inspired most of her writing.....
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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 now the state of Texas. After political.....
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First edition. 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 inscribed by Pacheco to the Argentinean.....
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First Edition. 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 dedication page and dated in.....
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First Edition. 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 surprisingly uncommon. First edition (first printing).....
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First Edition. 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 fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
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First Edition. 87 pages. An uncommon collaboration of two Fresno poets to publish the first English-language collection of this important Mexican poet. In Spanish, with the translation on the facing page. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by Levine on the title page, "From.....
Price: $75
