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New York:: Atheneum,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (some scattered marginal notations in ink). First edition. A look at the ending of slavery in Brazil in 1888, including the ideas and tactics of the abolitionists and the slaveholders' defense of their interests. A title in the "Studies in American Negro Life" series, with August Meier as general editor. Bibliography, notes, appendix, index xvii, 299 pp.

Rohnert Park, California:: University Art Gallery (Sonoma State),, (1990). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. Exhibition catalog. Includes essays by Victor Alejandro Sorell and Amalia Masa-Bains,and works by twelve artists - from Juana Alicia to Judy Baca, Eva Garcia, Jose Montoya and others - with an example of their work in full color. Includes detailed checklist of the art works and artists. Square format. 44 pp.

New York:: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan,, (1980). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. A profile of modern Brazil - and especially an account of how the capital, Brasilia, was carved out of the center of the country between 1955 and 1960. 209 pp.

Las Vegas, NM:: New Mexico Highlands University, Division of Ethnic Studies, , 1975.. First edition -. Very good in printed brown wrappers with black cloth spine (some damage to the ends of the spine, usual toning to the pages). First printing. Includes five of the papers (4 in English, 1 in Spanish) presented at this symposium which was sponsored by the National Education Task Force de la Raza, Albuquerque, NM.; New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM; Eric Clearing House on Rural Education, and La Luz Publications. From the overview by David Conde: Over 200 participants from 10 states and 17 universities attended. The papers cover Chicano poetry, novel, drama, and popular folklore humor. "National Character vs Universality in Chicano Poetry" by Sylvia Alicia Gonzales sets forth the notion that national traditions are adaptations of universal styles and national character is or should be but a step toward universality. The new "space" (identity) of Chicano art or… Read More

Buenos Aires: : Editorial Sudamerica, , (1991). First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (usual toning to the pages) . 1st trade paperback printing. En espanol. 359 pp.

Kaneohe, Hawaii:: Plover Press,, (1993). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A love story about two young Mexicans abroad, in the rainy London. Translated from the Spanish by John Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell de Aguilar. Winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. INSCRIBED on the the title page and dated in the year of publication. 104 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1998.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of four generations of Cuban women in the Revuelta family, "through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture - both personal and historical - of Cuba in our century. At its center is Naty: born in 1925, educated in the United States, a socialite during the Batista era, who after marriage to a prominent doctor and the birth of a daughter became intoxicated with Castro and his revolution (here, published for the first time, are the letters they exchanged while he was in jail). Though her husband and daughter immigrated to the United States after Castro's victory, Naty remained in Cuba to raise her second child, Castro's unacknowledged daughter, only to be ultimately confronted by his dismissive, withering judgment. One of her two daughters settles well into life in America, while the other never recovers from her father's repudiation; her… Read More

Chusma House Publications,, (1992). SIGNED first edition -. Near fine in illustrated wrappers (name inside front cover) Uncommon - and especially so inscribed.. First printing, a large trade paperback original. A book which combines poetry in both Spanish and English, drawings by Montoya, song lyrics and more. Rigoberto Gonzalez noted that the title "is 'joda' as in 'twenty years of struggle,' as in 'twenty years of fighting back.' A collection, commemorating two decades worth of work by Chicano poet Jose Montoya, one of the writers who pioneered the use of Calo and code-switching in American poetry, includes a portfolio with representations of Pachucas y Pachucos, Cholas y Cholos, Chicanas y Chicanos and other images reflecting a vatos worldview. 'I chose to include em,' Montoya explains in his preface, 'because they were done in el mismo espiritu that the poems were written in'." The book also includes lyrics to songs and corridos, many of which… Read More

New York & Oxford:: Oxford University Press,, 1998.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. First English language edition of this classic Bolivian novel. Set in the early 1800s, this is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa, who tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Gabriel Waisman. A title in the Library of Latin America series with an introduction by the series editors, Jean Franco and Richard Graham. Edited and with a foreword by Alba Maria de la Paz Soldan. Notes. 329 pp.

Athens, GA:: University of Georgia Press,, (1993). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A collection of poetry, personal essays, and short fiction in which "the dominant subject - the lives of Puerto Ricans in a New Jersey barrio - is drawn from the author's own childhood." 170 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: University of California Press,, (1979). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (some foxing to edges of textblock). First printing. A book which "provides the first detailed analysis of the changes that transformed one of the most important Mexican pueblos in the Southwest into a Chicano urban barrio.. . the author traces the major socio-economic, political, and racial factors that evolved during the post-Mexican War decades and that created a subordinate status for Mexican Americans in a burgeoning American city."(Western Historical Quarterly) "Los Angeles Chicanos emerge . . as internally diverse, active participants in the simultaneous struggles to maintain their socio-cultural fabric and to capture a part of the American Dream. The author effectively demonstrates that the Chicano decline occurred not because of cultural weaknesses but as the almost inevitable result of Anglo prejudice, numerical domination, and control of political and… Read More

Cambridge, MA:: South End Press, (1998). Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback, 2nd printing. A collection of essays by this Puerto Rican-Jewish poet, historian and essayist. In the introduction "The Political is Personal" she notes that "The essays in this book are about the core issues in my life. They come out of a twenty-year practice of activism through which I have tried to integrate healing myself and healing the world." Index. 135 pp.

London:: Reader's International,, (1992). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First thus. Originally published in Spanish in 1957, this is considered the masterpiece of Mexico's most important woman novelist of the 20th century. Set against the Mexican Revolution in Chiapas, the southern Mexican state where Castellanos spent her childhood, and which has a strong Mayan presence. Translated from the Spanish and with a preface by Irene Nicholson. Includes a glossary of unfamiliar Spanish and Indian words. 272 pp, Uncommon in hardcover and especially so in this condition.

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1980, c 1972). Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. Trade paperback. A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of the Southwest to remember the Alamo in Texas, to California and the Delano strike, the deportations of the 1930s and more. Notes, index. 282 pp.

Lomalinda, Meta, Colombia:: Townsend Press,, 1973.. First edition -. Good overall - some spine slant, gift inscription on first page, lower corner of back cover creased. Uncommon. . First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which grew out of the work of linguistic analysts who are trying to develop a written language which can be used to translate the Bible. This is designed to give an introduction to these native tribes throughout Colombia and Panama. From desert tribes like the Guajiro, to plains tribes, jungle tribes such as the Siona's and Yucuna's to mountain tribes like the Kogi, and Malayo tribes. Wonderfully drawn sketches, photographs, maps, and illustrations of each distinctive tribe. Includes index, Large format. 182 pp.

Boston & New York:: David R. Godine / Avon Books,, (1985). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (very light foxing to edges of textblock, appears unread). First US printing. A novel set in 1940 by this Brazilian writer - The "brilliant womanizing poet Antonio Bruno" has died and his seat in the Brazilian Academy of Letters is now vacant - a colonel who had welcomed Nazi control is sure it should be his, but arrayed against him are two determined octagenarians and four remarkable women. Translated from the Portuguese by Helen R. Lane. 274 pp.

Toronto:: Coach House Press,, (1993). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of four stories by this award winning Argentian writer (in he won the 1955 of the Kraft Publishers Prize for Fiction) - includes Michel; Letter to Gianfranco; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; and the title story, The Redemption of the Cannibal Woman. Three of these stories are drawn from two collections: Hierba del cielo (1973) and Reunion de desaparecidos (1977); Eine kleine Nachtmusik' was never published in book form in Spanish. Translated from the Spanish, and with an afterword, by Alberto Manguel. 144 pp.

Ashland, OR:: Blackstone Publishing, , (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (lower corner slightly bumped). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A novel by this award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous poet and novelist, who grew up in a small border community in the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert, "a genre-blurring psychological thriller with an unstable Latina & indigenous mama protagonist that weaves together threads of folk Magick and the horror of everyday life in the margins." Author Ana Castillo called this "a delectable spellbinder. . . a conjuring of equal parts murder mystery, brujera, sex and romance, hauntings and terror, femme empowerment, all with a dash of Northern New Mexican cooking. " SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp.

New York:: Penguin,, (2019). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers. An uncommon advance issue. . Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A story of two young men, Jan and Remo, who "find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world. . as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Meanwhile, Remo runs headfirst into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafs, and murky bathhouses." Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. 196 pp.

Somerville, MA:: Candlewick Press, , (2022). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) The author's first book for younger readers. "Andrea Hernandez-Baldoqui is well aware that teenage girls are frequently underestimated, which is why at 14 she's the perfect spy to uncover a White supremacist plot. Alongside her family - Puerto Rican mom, Mexican dad, and little brother Carlos - she works for the Factory, an intelligence organization that serves people of color, and now's the time for her first complex mission: moving to Arizona and befriending Kyle Summer, the estranged son of a White supremacist who may be planning an attack in the Southwest. The catch, however, is why she was chosen: Among all their teen agents, she can best pass as White, and until she discovers intel on their target, she will be posing as Andrea Burke." From the Factory series , Vol. 1. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 314 pp.