Costumes of Mexico
University of Texas Press, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 240 pages. 8-5/8 by 11 inches. Some illustrations in color. First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Latin America
Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, 1893-1923
Cinco Puntos Press, 2005. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 293 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). El Paso/Juárez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories at the.....
Vortex: A Critical Review (Three issues)
Latitudes Press, 1986 - 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Three issues of the occasional publication: Spring 1986, Fall 1989, and a special double 1989 issue. Focuses on Southwest and Latin American literary culture. First editions (first printings). Near fine copies, two with stapled wrappers and one in folded newsprint. Some.....
Women and Power in Argentine Literature: Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays (Texas Pan American Literature in Translation Series)
University of Texas Press, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 376 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). With a warm inscription by the by the author to a previous owner. The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced--not merely as.....
The Essays (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas Series)
University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "The storyteller's gift is my inheritance," writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay "Shaman of Words." Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also.....
El Salvador: America's Next Vietnam?
Documentary Publications, 1983. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 217 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with some short chips and snags to the edges.
Thanks To God And The Revolution
University of Wisconsin Press, September 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Winner of the 1991 Chicago Women in Publishing Award In a restaurant in EstelÃ, Nicaragua, Dianne Walta Hart, a visiting American scholar, and Marta Lopez, member of a Nicaraguan.....
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Grand Central Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran.....
Central America: At Home and Abroad
By No Means Press, 1991. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 126 pages. The author recounts his experience traveling between 1987 and 1990 in Central America and visiting detention camps in Texas. Blurbs by M.F. K. Fisher, Howard Zinn, Kay Boyle, Noam Chomsky, Robert Creeley, and others.. First edition (first printing). A......
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Grand Central Publishing, September 2017. Trade Paperback. The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this.....
13 Junio 1953-1954 Colombia en Marcha
Fuerzas Armadas de Colombia. National Colombia Government, 1954. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Unpaginated, about 220 pages. B/W photographs throughout. Propaganda monograph promoting the administratiun of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1900-1975) who ruled from June, 1953 to May, 1957, after a coup against Mariano Ospina Perez. He was ousted by popular pressure.....
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
Harper, 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 315 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wappers (paperback). Inscribed by the translator on the title page. "New York Times" -bestselling author Isabel Allende celebrates the pleasures of the sensual life in this rich, joyful and slyly humorous book, a combination.....
British Guiana: Who owns it? What are wages and conditions? What happened? What is the meaning of the governments policy? [Cover title]
L.R.D., 1953. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. 4-7/8 by 4-1/8 inches. First edition (first printing). Very good in stapled wappers (paperback).
Venceremos Cantando: Songs of Struggle
Printed by Ink Works, Oakland, California, 1975. First Edition Thus. Trade Paperback. 72 pages. Text in English and Spanish. B/W illustrations. First edition thus. A fine copy in illustrated tan wrappers (paperback). Covers with mild scuffs.
Descripcion de los Molares Humanos Fosiles de Miramar (provincia de Buenos Aires)
Revista del Museo de la Plata, 1941. Trade Paperback. Revista del Museo de la Plata, Tomo I, Section Antropologia, pp. 271-358. From the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Instituto del Museo. Witrh 10 B/W plates. First edition thus. Very good copy in printed pale green tanned wrappers (paperback). Binding split.....
Latino Video - Video Latino: A video festival of Hispanic culture in the Americas / Video de las culturas Hispanicas de las Americas (poster)
Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Media Center, n.d., ca. 1978. Poster. Poster, 17 X 11 inches, printed in shades of black on white stock. Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Center / El Museo Latino / Multicultural de Washington is a non-profit bilingual, community-based art center founded in 1973. First edition.....
The Complete Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara and Other Captured Documents (revised)
Stein and Day, 1969. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 330 pages. First paperback edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Nicaragua, Yo Te Canto Besos, Balas, y Suenos de Libertad
Editorial Pocho-Che, 1980. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 138 pages. 'Nicaragua I Sing You Kisses, Bullets and Visions of Liberty.' Poems and essays. Text mostly in English. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Minor edge wear. Former owner's bookplate on cover verso.
Handbook of Hispanic Cultures of the United States (Four volume set)
Arte Publico Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Four volumes: Sociology, 364 pages; History, 339 pages; Anthropology, 374 pages; Literature and Art, 413 pages with an 8-page section with color illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy set; no dust jackets. Some fade to spines with wear to.....
The Mexican Revolution (Two volume set)
Cambridge University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1: Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants, 619 pages (ISBN 0521244757). Volume 2: Counter-Revolution & Reconstruction, 679 pages (ISBN 0521266513). First editions (first printings). Very good copies in a dust jacket with some toning to the edges and very short tide marks to the.....
Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610: A Critical and Annotated Spanish/English Edition (Paso Por Aqui Series in the Nuevomexicano Literary Heritage)
University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Hardcover. 367 pages. 8-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. A near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. One of the first travel journals of its kind to be published, this epic poem about Juan de Onate's entrada that led to the founding of Nueva Mexico in.....
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
Simon & Schuster, 1977. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stevens and the Lost Cities of Central America and Yucatan
Chronicle Books, May 1990. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The exciting biography of John Lloyd Stephens, the father of American archaeology. In his extraordinary journeys to the Yucatan and Central America more than 150 years ago, John Lloyd Stephens uncovered the ruins of an entire culture-- at that.....
The first postals made of the Diego Rivera Frescoes (13 of set of 14 postcards)
Fischgrund Publishing Co., n.d., ca late 1930s. Print. 13 postcards, 3.5 x 5.5 inches. Secretaria de Educacion Publica: Burning of Juda, Night of the Poor; Palace National de Mexico: The Sacred Wars, Cortez and Las Casas, The Reform, Baptism of Indians, The Conquest; Palacio de Cortes-Cuernavaca: Market Scene, Colonial Period.....
Report on Hacienda 'Tierra Blanca y Anexas', district of Jimenez, State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Property of J. J. Waterson
n.d., ca. 1900. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 6 page report describing the property of 3500 cleared and planted acres with 25,00 acres of additional 'superior land' which could be cleared and planted. There are two substantial haciendas on the property, Hacienda 'El Aquila' and Hacienda de 'Tierra Blanca.' Two engineering.....