White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book on the growing of coffee illustrated with striking woodcuts by noted Dominican artist Belkis Ramirez, afterword by Bill Eichner, who talks about the importance of the traditional shade grown coffee, and how he and Alvarez came to be involved in an organic coffee farm in the Dominican Republic. SIGNED on the title page by Alvarez. 58 pp. ISBN: 193149800.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. SIGNED on the title page. 368 pp. ISBN: 1-56512510x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.). First edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. 368 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. INSCRIBED on the title page "for Mary" with a drawing of a heart and dated in the year of publication. 368 pp. ISBN: 156512510x.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story for older children: ten year old Miguel isn't sure he wants his aunt to stay - maybe she's a little bit magic or a little bit crazy - when she comes from the Dominican Republic to live with him and his mother and sisters in Vermont following his parents' divorce. SIGNED on the title page. 147 pp. ISBN: 0-375-802150.

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2001 dj. Hardcover first edition - A lovely book on the growing of coffee illustrated with woodcuts by Belkis Ramirez, afterword by Bill Eichner, who talks about the importance of the traditional shade grown coffee, and how he and Alvarez came to be involved in an organic coffee farm in the Dominican Republic. 58 pp. ISBN: 193149800.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which goes back and forth between two centuries - from the fight against AIDS in the modern Dominican Republic to the 1803 smallpox expedition of Francisco Xavier Balmis. 368 pp. ISBN: 156512510x.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp. ISBN: 1565121937.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. SIGNED on the title page. Novel written for young adults or older children. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.). First edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. Unlike most ARCs, this advance issue has a very different cover than the design used on the dust jackets of the trade edition. Author's letter to the reader. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York: Plume, (1999). SIGNED - SIGNED on the title page. Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-452-280672.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1998. SIGNED first edition - Twenty-four essays on her life as a 'hyphenated American' (In 1960, when Alvarez was 10 years old, her father, after a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, escaped to a self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation.), and on how this has influenced her writing. Includes the "Ten Commandments on Writing" - wisdom she has collected from other masters. SIGNED on the title page. 300 pp.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1997. First edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer and poet: "This zesty, daring novel is about what happens when an author really does 'write what she knows.' At once funny and poignant, intellectual and gossipy, lighthearted and layered in meaning." 309 pp

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1997. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Third novel by this award-winning writer and poet: "This zesty, daring novel is about what happens when an author really does 'write what she knows.' At once funny and poignant, intellectual and gossipy, lighthearted and layered in meaning." SIGNED on the title page. 309 pp. ISBN: 1565121570.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel about 'la musa de la patria', Dominican poet Salome Urena and her daughter, Profesora Camila Henriquez-Urena. SIGNED on the title page. 357 pp. ISBN: 1-56512-273.

New York: Grove Press, (1984.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Very uncommon hardcover edition of the first book by this writer (who spent her earliest years in her parents' native Dominican Republic) to be published by a major press. Since this was issued simultaneously in both soft and hardcover, the hardcover printing was very small. The central section of these poems is called 'housekeeping; and reconstruct her experiences as her mother teaches her housewifery skills, there is the underlying irony that 'at 33' Alvarez is not the 'heroine of her mother's stories' for she has neither a house, husband nor children. A title in the Grove Press Poetry Series edited by Robert Pack. 93 pp. ISBN: 0-394-538552.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1991. SIGNED first edition - Uncommon advance issue of her highly praised first novel, winner of the Pen/Oakland Award. SIGNED by the author.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A delightful children's book based on legends in the author's native country of the Dominican Republic. It "begins as Papa returns home from a trip to the city with an overflowing basket of oranges, like those he used to eat in his native Spain. That night, after Papa warns the family that they may have to abandon their failing olive farm, young Maria dreams of planting orange seeds, and a beautiful lady with a crown of stars, Altagracia, materializes in an orange-laden grove.. . Argentina-born illustrator Vidal uses small brushes and gouache to create lovely, stylized folk-art-style paintings" [Booklist] SIGNED on the title page by Julia Alvarez. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-375924256.

San Francisco: Cleis Press, (1989). SIGNED first edition - A collection of stories "of allies and foes, strangers and strugglers, stories of the margin, of relationships just a bit off center." SIGNED by Julia Alvarez at her story "Daughter of Invention" and uncommon thus. Also includes contributions from Barbara Selfridge, Dorothy Bryant and many others. Notes on contributors. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-939416158.

New York: North Point Press, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An original short story anthology for the Nature Conservancy - among the contributors are Howard Norman, Jill McCorkle, Gretel Ehrlich, Lee Smith, Barry Lopez, Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Julia Alvarez and more. Introduction by Barbara Kingsolver. SIGNED by FOUR authors: twice by Norman Howard: on the title page and at his story "The Chauffeur," by Eric Lustbader at his story "Hush"l Barry Lopez at "Two Dogs at Rowena" and also by Julia Alvarez at her story "Victor." 262 pp. ISBN: 0-6547-530x.

Hanover, NH: Middlebury College Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth of the Breadloaf anthologies - poetry, stories and essays with an introduction by Pack and Parini. This copy is SIGNED by FOUR of the contributors: Julia Alvarez at her poem 'Homecoming'; Gary Soto at "One Last Time;" and by Jacqueline Woodson at "Autobiography of a Family Photo" and Garrett Hongo at "Kubota." Among the 40 contributors are Julia Alvarerez, Pinckney Benedict, Larry Brown, Melvin Dixon, Michael Dorris, Garett Hongo, Robert Houston, Erica Jong, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Mariani, Linda Pastan, Gay Talese, Richard Rodriguez, Julia Ortiz Cofer, Ron Powers, Ishmael Reed, Sarah Shulman, Gary Soto, Gore Vidal, Terry Tempest Williams, and Clara Yu. Notes on the contributors, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-87451-6412.

Hanover, NH: Middlebury College Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The sixth of the Breadloaf anthologies - poetry, stories and essays with an introduction by Pack and Parini. This copy is SIGNED by FIVE contributors: Julia Alvarez at her poem 'Homecoming'; James Atlas at 'Chicago Highbrow, and Erica Jong at 'How I Got to Be Jewish' and Garrett Hongo at "Kubota" and by Gary Soto at "One Last Time." Among the 40 contributors are Julia Alvarerez, Pinckney Benedict, Larry Brown, Melvin Dixon, Michael Dorris, Garett Hongo, Robert Houston, Erica Jong, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Mariani, Linda Pastan, Gay Talese, Richard Rodriguez, Julia Ortiz Cofer, Ron Powers, Ishmael Reed, Sarah Shulman, Gary Soto, Gore Vidal, Terry Tempest Williams, and Clara Yu. Notes on the contributors, 373 pp. ISBN: 0-87451-6412.

New York: 1991. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by two authors at their stories: Alvarez at 'Floor Show' and Cisneros at 'My Friend Lucy Who Smells Like Corn' In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes stories by David Huddle, Rick DeMarinis, Antonya Nelso, Lewis Nordan and a 'story classic' reprint of Kay Boyle's 1931 story 'Rest Cure' We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.