New York: Harper Collins, (1980, c 1972). 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. ISBN: 0-06380350X.

London: Spectacular Diseases, 1987. First edition - An anthology of 40 years of poetry by Latin American women poets, edited and with an introduction by Agosin and Franzen in which they comment that the position of these women poets is still very precarious and that this anthology aims to be eclectic by including writers of various regions and styles. Among the poets included are Julia Alvarez, Rosario Castellanos, Ana Castillo, Rosario Ferre, Cecilia Vicuna and many others. Brief notes on contributors. One of 700 copies available for purchase (out of a total edition of 790 copies). 109 pp plus colophon,. ISBN: 0-946904073.

New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition - 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. ISBN: 0-195113284.

Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamerica, (1991). First edition - En espanol. 359 pp. ISBN: 950-0707241.

New York: Ballantine, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An upbeat memoir by this novelist who grew up in Chile, and whose life has not always been easy. A self-described romantic feminist, she was approaching 80 when this was written and she has lots of wise insights to share. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 171 pp. ISBN: 978-0593355626.

Boston & New York: David R. Godine / Avon Books, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-879235527.

El Paso,TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the life and the accomplishments of Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) in fighting for the rights of farmworkers, for civil rights and environmental justice, written for older children and young adults. Illustrations by Gaspar Enriquez. Oblong format. 32 pp. The verso of the dustjacket is a poster with an illustrated chronology of events in the life of Chavez. ISBN: 0-938317512.

Dalkey Archive Press, (2003). First edition - The author's first novel, winner of the Brazilian Publishers Prize. "In the early morning of March 31, 1970 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the annual birthday celebration of a prominent and wealthy young artist is taking place; and a train docked in Plaza Station filled with starving, drought-stricken migrant workers seeking relief gets turned away by the authorities, sparking a riot. From these seemingly unrelated events, Angelo connects the lives of characters spanning three decades of tumultuous social and political history in twentieth-century Brazil." Translated by Thomas Colchie, Originally published in 1982 in the US as a pocket paperback and issued here as a title in Dalkey's Latin American Literature Series. 203 pp. ISBN: 1-564782905.

London: Reader's International, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. ISBN: 0-93052389x.

Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1985). First edition - "A su muerte, en 1974, Rosario Castellanos habia realizado una obra ejemplar. . .
Esta antologia recoge una amplia y significativa muestra de la poesia de Rosario Castellanos, principalmente de aquella escrita con intenciones feministas. Pero su poesia habla desde un fondo aparentemente intimista partidistas. La injusticia, la persecucion, el menosprecio sentidos alcanzan momentos de singular belleza, como puede apreciarse en esta antologia." La compilacion del presente volumen se encuentra a cargo de Julian Palley y el prologo pertenece a Elena Poniatowska. Bibliografia selecta, indice. El tiro fue de 10,000 ejemplares - #9984. 232 pp. ISBN: 968-1618882.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (2005). First edition - A collection of poems and prose poems by this award-winning Puerto Rican born author which together form an informal memoir. (xii) 67 pp. ISBN: 0-820327425.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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." Winner of the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-820315567.

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1987). Originally published in French in 1979, this traces slavery in Brazil over 300 years - it places the slave in the center of the history not simply as a type of labor, but as an actor whose culture, actions and decisions influenced the operation of the system. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Foreword by Stuart Schwartz. Map, appendices, currency tables, bibliographies, index. xiv, 250 pp. ISBN: 0-813511550.

Toronto: Coach House Press, (1993). First edition - 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. ISBN: 0-889104433.

London: Anaconda Editions Ltd, (2005). SIGNED first edition - A bilingual edition by this poet from Peru, who was living in England when this was published; Castillo-Florian writes in Spanish and he translated this on English with the assistance of Alison Dent. Preface/prefacio by Richard MacKane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in Sedona, Arizona in the year of publication. Notes, 86 pp. Author's card laid in. ISBN: -901990028.

Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, (2022). SIGNED first edition - 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: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 12 essays which "span the spectrum, from Carlos Manuel lvarez's story of being among the last generation of Cubans to be raised under Fidel Castro to Patricia Engel's look at how Cuba's capital has changed through her years of riding across it with her taxi driver friend; from The New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson (who traveled with President Obama on the first trip to Cuba by an American president since the twenties) on being a foreigner in Cuba during the Special Period to Francisco Goldman on the Tropicana, then and now, to Leonardo Padura on the religion that is Cuban baseball." Introduction by the editor, Leila Guerriero. Notes on contributors. xi, 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0062661067.

New York: Grove Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - Making use of unprecedented access to Che's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, this exhaustive biography traces the life of this charismatic Communist revolutionary, the son of an aristocratic Argentine family whose sympathy for the world's oppressed turned him into a socialist revolutionary, the valued comrade-in-arms of Cuba's Fidel Castro and a leader of guerilla warfare in Latin America and Africa.This includes much new material, including information about Guevara's death at the hands of the Bolivian military. Photographs. Notes on sources, bibliography, index. A very heavy, thick book. xv, 814 pp. ISBN: 0-802116000.

Rohnert Park, California: University Art Gallery (Sonoma State), (1990). First edition - 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.

Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (1990). First edition - El Museo Regional de Guadalajara custodia una importante coleccion de ceramica procedente de Tonala. In Spanish/en espanol. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Bibliografia. 146 pp. ISBN: 9-686068953.

London: Eyewear Publishing, (2014). Hardcover first edition - A mystery novel in verse which won Mexico's Xavier Villaurutia Prize in 2009. Bilingual edition with Spanish and English on facing pages translated by poet David Shook (who is also known as Bolano's translator). This "centers around Mr. Gordon, who, after being let go from his job due to his unstable behavior, experiences the unfolding of his spirit in an artificial Californian Eden. In the shade of a thousand-leaved tree, very near a pool's edge, Gordon transcribes his thoughts, memories and questions while he tries to cope with abuse from his wife and his best friend . . a poem written in the magical realist tradition, drawing on both film noir and West Coast thrillers." Translator's note. 191 pp. ISBN: 978-1908998224.

Kaneohe, Hawaii: Plover Press, (1993). First edition - 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. ISBN: 0-917635159.

Cambridge, MA: South End Press (1998). 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. ISBN: 0-896085813.