New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - An erotic novel by this prize-winning Peruvian author, illustrated with classical paintings, and translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane. 149 pp. ISBN: 0-374-175837.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Peru in the near future, a country in decay and turmoil, as the narrator is attempting to reconstruct the life of Mayta, a Trotskyist revolutionary of the late 1950's. Translated by Alfred MacAdam. ISBN: 0-374-247765.

London: Faber & Faber, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru. and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990." Translated by Helen Lane. 532 pp. ISBN: 0-571-169694.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of an uprising in the backlands of Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and of the state created there - Canudos - a revolutionary utopia, an example of ideological fanaticism. Translated by Helen Lane. 568 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-374-286515.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic historical novel of an uprising in the backlands of Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and of the state created there - Canudos - a revolutionary utopia, an example of ideological fanaticism. Translated by Helen Lane. 568 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon. ISBN: 0-374-286515.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - A detective novel by this Nobel Prize winning author: "Set on an air force base in Peru, where a young airman is found tortured and murdered. An entertaining and brilliantly plotted mystery, this book also takes up one of Vargas Llosa's great themes: despair at how difficult it is to be an honest man in a society based on a corruption of motives and feelings." Translated from the Spanish by Alfred Mac Adam. 151 pp. Dust jacket by Honi Werner. ISBN: 0-374289786.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001.). First edition - Novel set in the Dominican Republic towards the end of the regime of terror of Trujillo - the 'goat' of the title. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 409 pp.

New York: Plume, 2000. A gripping novel which starts with the brutal murders of two women in San Francisco, a murder which has its roots in the war in Vietnam. One review called this 'a novel filled with magic realism, searing descriptions and stunning eloquence." Named one of the best books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times. ISBN: 0-452-28115-6.

New York: Dutton, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel set in San Francisco's Mission District, a study of the mix of race and culture in the US and also a gripping murder mystery. 343 pp,. ISBN: 0-525-940774.

New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, the story of a nine-year-old boy struggling to find his place in the world - his mother has fled the old ways for life in California, his grandfather is a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother a Spanish curandera with a passion for the music of Duke Ellington. Set in 1958 in the desert outside Phoenix on Buckeye Road, an area of adobes, tar paper shacks, rusted Cadillacs and an indomintable spirit symbolized by la maravilla - the blanket of marigolds laid upon graves in Mexican cemeteries. INSCRIBED (in Spanish) on the half title page. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935886.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book, a novel chronicling the lives of three generations of Cuban American women in Miami. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-374-121303.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - A massive sprawling novel - described on the cover as a 'symphonic novel' - covering 150 years of family history, by this Puerto Rican born, Brooklyn author. Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, sets out in search of the father she never knew - once a gifted jazz pianist, he lost 2 fingers in Vietnam, and shut himself off from music, and is now living in Manhattan's East Village with his second family. A story about learning about yourself and about the complexities of roots - described as 'masterfully crafted and complex' by Ntozake Shange, and 'big, brave, boisterous and brawling' by Colum McCann, this is a great read. 640 pp.

Burnaby, B.C.: Talon Books, 1998. First edition - Collection of short stories.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. First edition - An unusual long book-length poem in 5 parts, inspired by his memory of being 14 and sitting in the darkness of the Holiday Theater and watching a scene of anti-Mexican racism in the movie "Giant." Winner of the American book award.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1993. An unusual long book-length poem in 5 parts, inspired by his memory of being 14 and sitting in the darkness of the Holiday Theater and watching a scene of anti-Mexican racism in the movie "Giant." Winner of the American book award.

New York: Delta, (1997.). SIGNED - The second volume in Villasenor's story of his family; this is the story of his father's people, a story inextricably entwined with the history of Mexico. Boldly SIGNED on the title page. 296 pp. ISBN: 0-385-315694.

New York: Rayo/ Harper Collins, 2004. First edition - A memoir of"an extremely angry adolescence" by this award winning writer - he had to cope both with an undiagnosed learning disabilty and the frustrations of growing up a Latino in an American school system, where he was made to feel ashamed about his culture and his heritage. Letter from publisher laid in. 316 pp.

Houston, TX: Pinata Books / Arte Publico Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover - "Autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California" Each story is followed by an author's note, discussing the context of the story. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 202 pp. ISBN: 1-55885-1186.

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1992. (c.1985.). SIGNED - First book by this Latina writer, who was born in Los Angeles. INSCRIBED on the title page "Para .... en paz" and dated in 2007. ISBN: 0-934770-409.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel (second book) by this Latina writer from Los Angeles. SIGNED on title page. ISBN: 0-525-939490.

New York: Dutton, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel (second book) by this Latina writer from Los Angeles. SIGNED on title page. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939490.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Atria, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer: three young women struggle to find their way in the gritty urban world of the barrio of East Los Angeles in the 1960s. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287661.

New York: Simon & Schuster / Atria, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this award-winning writer: three young women struggle to find their way in the gritty urban world of the barrio of East Los Angeles in the 1960s. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0743287661.

New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., (1985). Includes oral histories of participants in seven different Inter-American Foundation supported organizations - among them a textile manufacturer in urban Ecuador, small farmer co-operatives in eastern Paraguay and women's theater in Jamaica - as it shows that "impoverished people will use rural credit and other resources in ways not anticipated by development planners, and that these recipients often know how to make more efficient use of aid than the planners do."Map frontispiece, photographs. Bibliography, index. vii, 197 pp. ISBN: 0-030016924.

New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - West's exploration of Mexican history, religion and culture - including the lives of such figures as Cortes, Montezuma, the Reclus brothers, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Dr. Atl, and Leon Trotsky. Although not completed before her death, she left a series of extensive drafts and revisions that Bernard Schweizer has meticulously assembled and edited. Introduction by Schweizer. Appendix with three book reviews by Rebecca West, notes, index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-300-098863.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - This study of the changing social structure of the northwest Ecuadorian port town San Lorenzo is the first full scale study of Negro social organization, on the west coast of South Amearica. Illustrated with maps, graphs and charts and photographs.Glossary, references, index. vii, 328 pp.

Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Books, (1985). First edition - Zamora is a Nicaraugan poet, painter and psychologist who was in the front lines of the Sandinista Liberation friont and served as Vice Minister of Culture after the 1979 Revolution. The 110 poems in this book were written between 1968 and 1993. A bi-lingual edition with the original Spanish and English translations by Margaret Randall and Elinor Randall. 193 pp. ISBN: 1-880684098.

Washington, D.C.: 1909. Contains many interesting articles, as well as brief reports on trade and commerce development in Central and South America, profusely illustrated with photographs and maps (including fold-outs.) Among the topics covered in detail are railway construction in Bolivia, "nanduti" or the spiderweb lace of Paraguay and pineapple growing in Cuba. Quite aside from the interesting contents, this is an attractive and sturdy volume bound in 3/4 leather with dark blue cloth, marblized endpapers and edges of the text block. Pp. i-vii, 477-651.