Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1996). First edition - "Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church.". Illustrated with photographs.A title in the New Cultural Studies series. Notes, references, indes. xii, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-8122-15761.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A fictional series of vignettes, some very brief, on the history of Cuba. Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine. ISBN: 0-06-0906367.

Providence, RI: Providence Niquinohomo Sister City Project / Black Cat Graphics, 1987. First edition - A bilingual edition of poetry by the residents of Niquinohomo in Nicaragua, a town about one hour south of Managua. Text in Spanish and English. Illustrated with black and white photographs. vi, 37 pp.

New York: New Directions, (1977.). First edition - The second book by this revolutionary Nicaraguan poet-priest to be published by New Directions. Edited and selected by Robert Pring-Mill (who also contributed the introduction) and Donald D. Walsh. Translations by Thomas Merton, Kenneth Rexroth, Mireya Jaimes-Freyre and the editors. 78 pp. ISBN: 0-8112-06629.

New York: Orbis Books, 1985. First edition - A sample of some of Cardenal's poems in celebration of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Cardenal is one of the foremost poets of Latin America, a priest, a revolutionary and the Minister of Cultural of Nicaragua. Bilingual edition with the original Spanish and English translation by Marc Zimmerman, who also wrote the introduction. Texto en ingles y espanol. ISBN: 0-88344-1314.

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (1973). Hardcover first edition - Seventeen poems devoted to the American Indians, mainly of Mexico, by this noted Nicaraguan author. Illustrated with duotone plates by Dino Aranda. Translated by Monique and Carlos Altschul. 116 pp. ISBN: 0-8018-15134.

Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The story of the poet's boyhood in California, where he arrived from his native Costa Rica in 1939 at age twelve. Cover praise from Marjorie Agosin, among others who called it a "lyrical memoir shaped by an exquisite language and a wise heart." IINSCRIBED on the half title page - "To --- the delights of meeting" and dated in 2000. 140 pp. ISBN: 1-890932078.

New York: HarperCollins, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover - A collection of stories by such writers as Ariel Dorfman, Julio Cortazar, Marjorie Agosin and more selected for the young adult reader. Includes an introduction by Isabel Allende and woodcut illustrations by Jose Ortega. SIGNED by Allende.

New York: Henry Holt, (2005.). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Carlson's second bilingual collection of poems (10 years after 'Cool Salsa' was published) - some originally written in Spanish and translated into English, others originally in English and translated into Spanish - celebrating all the hopes and fears that come with growing up Hispanic in America. Includes contributions from Oscar Hijuelos, Gary Soto, Luis J. Rodriguez, Sandra Castillo, David Hernandez, Martin Espada , Willie Perdomo, Trinidad Sanchez, and more.SIGNED by Luis J Rodriguez at this poem "La Chucha." En espanol y anglais. Glossary, notes on the authors. xix, 140 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-76166.

New York: Dutton / Lodestar, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young adult novel set in the author's native Guatemala: the story of a newly married 16 year old in a traditional Mayan village who is invited to join the goverment's teacher training program. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-525-674314.

New York: Warner, 1991. Highly praised first novel by this writer who was born in Spain and raised in Chile. Nominated for the National Book Award. Told from the point of view of a 10 year old girl, reviewers compared this satiric novel to both 'Huckeberry Finn' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and authors were equally unrestrained in their comments - with Robert Stone calling the best novel he had read all year and Paul West describing it as the 'most ebullient first novel I've read in years.'. ISBN: 0-446-393452.

New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this writer who was born in Spain and raised in Chile. Nominated for the National Book Award. Told from the point of view of a 10 year old girl, reviewers compared this satiric novel to both 'Huckeberry Finn' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and authors were equally unrestrained in their comments - with Robert Stone calling the best novel he had read all year and Paul West describing it as the 'most ebullient first novel I've read in years.'. ISBN: 1-55584-2798.

New York: Norton, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED and dated Aug. 20, 1996. A collection of short stories. ISBN: 0-393-039595.

New York: Norton, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this Chicana writer from Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039595.

New York: Norton, 1995. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes selected poems from 'The Invitation' and 'Women Are Not Roses' as well as the entire text of her 1988 work 'My Father Was a Toltec.' First hardcover edition of this work. ISBN: 0-393-037185.

New York: Norton, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by author. The story of 4 sisters in a small sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico, a weaving of the mundane and the miraculous, the comic and the tragic. ISBN: 0-393-034909.

New York: Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - A moving story of a love triangle set in the colorful world of flamenco dancing.

New York: Plume, (1994.). Third novel by this award-winning author, a native of Chicago, who now lives in New Mexico. The story of 4 sisters in a small sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico, a weaving of the mundane and the miraculous, the comic and the tragic. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-452-272092.

New York: Bilingual Press, 1986. SIGNED - Her first novel, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, INSCRIBED and dated by author on the title page. ISBN: 0-916950-689.

New York: Norton, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories by this Chicana writer from Chicago. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-393-039595.

New York: Vintage Espanol (Knopf), (2000.). SIGNED - A collection of essays and poems by 21 writers - including Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Francisco Goldman, Cherie Moraga, Luis Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Elena Poniatowska, Nancy Mairs, Denise Chavez, Rosario Castellano, Pat Mora, Margaret Randall and others - exploring the concept and the role of the mother goddess, the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who miraculously appeared in the 16th century to a poor Mexican and who represents a combination of indigenous Aztec and Catholic traditions. SIGNED by TWO authors: Pat Mora at her contribution "Las Reglas de Coatlicue." and Cherie Moraga at "El Mito Azteca." Translated from the English by Mariela Dreyfus. EN ESPANOL. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-375703691.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (1995). SIGNED first edition - Introduction by the editor. SIGNED by Cherrie Moraga at her essay "Art in America con Acento." Other contributors include Julia Alvarez, Sandra Benitez, Ana Castillo, Christina Garcia, Graciela Limon, Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Demetria Martinez, Pat Mora, Achy Obejas, Julia Alvarez, Luchi Corpi, Mary Helen Ponce, Esmeralda Santiago, Helena Maria Viramontes and more. 282 pp.

Houston, TX:' Arte Publico Press, (2000). First edition - A collection of thirteen short stories: "From Mexico City to 'Aztlan'Oregon, in bittersweet comic fables and through tales of frightening realism, Daniel Chacon captures the shrewd, furtive, and sometimes tortuous ways by which Mexican Americans manage to survive in intimidating territory." "Review copy"stamped on first page. 152 pp. ISBN: 1558852808.

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'Lopez led the first armed challenge to Spain's long dominion over Cuba. While U.S. historians have tended to view Lopez-with his ties to Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John C. Calhoun, and other southerners-as an agent of pre-Civil War southern expansionism, Tom Chaffin reveals a broader, more complicated picture. . . Between 1848 and 1851 Lopez tried five times to dislodge Cuba's Spanish government. After fleeing to the United States in the wake of an aborted uprising within Cuba, Lopez organized four separate expeditionary forces.' An interesting study of a now almost forgotten period in the history of US-Cuban relations. Photographs, extensive notes, bibliography, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-8139-16739.

New York: Julian Messner, 1974. dj. Hardcover - Describes the causes and events of the California grape picker's strike, and Chavez's role in it. Photographs, suggestions for further readings, index. 191 pp. ISBN: 0-671-325051.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - Mexican American playwright's first novel. 467 pp.

Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1986. First edition - Her first collection of short stories, INSCRIBED in Spanish on the title page. The title story won the Puerto del Sol fiction award in 1985. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so with a personal inscription like this. ISBN: 0-934770-468.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1994.). Mexican American playwright's first novel. 467 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's third novel - "Teresina ("Tere") vila is a divorced, thirty-something Chicana working "in the hinterlands of life" in Cabritoville, New Mexico, a small dusty town near El Paso, Texas. The love of her life is Lucio, a smooth-talking ne'er-do-well who will never leave his wife and ties Tere's heart in knots with a string of empty promises. Her diversions are few but intense, and center around her best fri, Irma, and her membership in the Pedro Infante Fan Club #256." 325 pp. ISBN: 0-374194114.

New York: Cape Golliard Press / Grossman Publishers, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book published in English of this Peruvian poet's work. Includes selections from his first two books (the second won the Casa de las Americas award). Translated by Maureen Ahern, William Rowe and David Tipton. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-67066278x.