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  • THE LACUNA. by Kingsolver, Barbara.
    Kingsolver, Barbara.
    THE LACUNA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.

    Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with a remainder line)

    Book ID: 55259
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  • THE LACUNA. by Kingsolver, Barbara.
    Kingsolver, Barbara.
    THE LACUNA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Harper Collins, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "An epic journey from the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR and J. Edgar Hoover. . . A poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities." Awarded the 2010 Women's Prize for Fiction. 507 pp. ISBN: 9780060852573.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68418
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  • FIESTAS: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration. by Kleven, Elisa, illustrator, signed] Orozco, Jose-Luis.
    Kleven, Elisa, illustrator, signed] Orozco, Jose-Luis.
    FIESTAS: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A bilingual collection of songs from Latin America. "Performer and songwriter Jose-Luis Orozco has arranged more than 20 songs and rhymes from Spanish-speaking countries. The songs focus on holidays that specifically honor Latin American culture - Cinco de Mayo, Carnival, Cesar Chavez Day - as well as familiar fiestas celebrated around the world - New Year's Day, Christmas and Valentines Day." Includes the musical notations for each song, Exuberantly illustrated in full color by Eliza Kleven, with full page paintings, small scattered illustrations and decorative borders., SIGNED on the title page by Kleven with a drawing of a small dove, Large format. Subject index. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-525-459375.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 51657
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  • MAYA MEDICINE: Traditional Healing in Yucatan by Kunow, Marianna Appel.
    Kunow, Marianna Appel.
    MAYA MEDICINE: Traditional Healing in Yucatan

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the practice of traditional Maya medicine which examines "the work of curers in Piste, Mexico, a small town in the Yucatn Peninsula near the ruins of Chichen Itza. The traditions of plant use and ethnomedicine applied by these healers have been transmitted from one generation to the next since the colonial period throughout the state of Yucatan and the adjoining states of Campeche and Quintana Roo. . . The author collected plants with traditional healers and observed their techniques including prayer and massage as well as plant medicine, western medicine, and ritual practices." Illustrated with drawings of plants. Includes a map, several tables, a plant catalogue, glossary and index. vii, 152 pp. ISBN: 0-826328644.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 76804
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  • CUTTING FOR SIGN. by Langewiesche, William.
    Langewiesche, William.
    CUTTING FOR SIGN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The border between the United States and Mexico covers 1,951 miles, and in this book Langewiesche attempts to understand and explain this no-man's land that exists between two countries and its effects on the people who live in the area. He "portrays not an imaginary line through the desert, but two distrustful, hopelessly unequal and increasingly zenophobic neighbor countries. 247 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-679411135.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 42173
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  • CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS. by Lansdale, Joe R.
    Lansdale, Joe R.
    CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Hap Collins and Leonard Pine Novel - "the East Texas duo head down Mexico way . . and find a parcel of trouble following them everywhere." SIGNED on the title page. 319 pp. ISBN: 0-892967285.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 78324
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  • PEDRO MARTINEZ: A Mexican Peasant and His Family. by Lewis, Oscar.
    Lewis, Oscar.
    PEDRO MARTINEZ: A Mexican Peasant and His Family.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1964.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Told in the words of 70 year old Pedro Martinez, an Aztec peasant who left his village to join Zapata, this is a classic study of the effects of the technological changes of the twentieth century on peasant-life everywhere.Both an anthropological study and a well-written and movng human document. Illustrated with full page drawings by Alberto Beltran. Glossary, synchronic record and appendix, xxvii, 507pp

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47005
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  • THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN. by Levine, Isaac Don
    Levine, Isaac Don
    THE MIND OF AN ASSASSIN.

    Edition: First edition.

    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1959). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Written shortly before his scheduled release from prison in Mexico (after serving a 20 year sentence), this is an account of the life and psychology of Leon Trotsky's assassin, Russian agent Ramon Mercader (also known as Jacques Monard.) Based partly on interviews with the assassin conducted by Alfonso Quiroz Cuaron, the psychologist for the Mexican Dept of Justice. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to Herschel Williams (presumably the Medal of Honor winner) with the comment "With memories of the days when one had faith in the struggle for liberty" and signed Don and dated in 1960 in Mexico City. Sources and Notes, index. xvii, 236 pp.

    Condition: Good only in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some staining to front cover), no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 72897
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  • Lewis, Oscar.
    THE CHILDREN OF SANCHEZ: Autobiography of a Mexican Family.

    Edition: Trade paperback. A Vintage Giant.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1963.). A classic of anthropology and one which makes the plight of the hard-working poor vividly real. The entire book is told in the words of the Sanchez family, over a period of years, and their feelings, their lives, their hopes and their discouragements become agonizingly vivid. 499 pp. ISBN: 0-394-702808.

    Condition: Good condition. (toning to the pages.)

    Book ID: 30679
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  • EL ULTIMO MONOLITO DE LA NOCHE: Collection poesia. by Lopez Lomas, Estela Alicia (Esali)
    Lopez Lomas, Estela Alicia (Esali)
    EL ULTIMO MONOLITO DE LA NOCHE: Collection poesia.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Tijuana, B. C., Mexico: Conaculta Cecut, (2004). First edition - One of the more important works by this award-winning Mexican poet. Introduction by Robert Cantu, who comments "La escritura misma se enriquece de una lectura muy intima y compleja de la poesia de Ezra Pound, realizando con ello algo inesperado: la recreacion de la voz del poeta norteamericano con el fin de pensar al fondo, a traves de un dialogo implicito, les raices estetico politicas del facismo italiano." (The writing itself is enriched by a very intimate and complex reading of the poetry of Ezra Pound, thereby doing something unexpected: the recreation of the voice of the American poet in order to think deep down, through an implicit dialogue,…

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    Tijuana, B. C., Mexico: Conaculta Cecut, (2004). First edition - One of the more important works by this award-winning Mexican poet. Introduction by Robert Cantu, who comments "La escritura misma se enriquece de una lectura muy intima y compleja de la poesia de Ezra Pound, realizando con ello algo inesperado: la recreacion de la voz del poeta norteamericano con el fin de pensar al fondo, a traves de un dialogo implicito, les raices estetico politicas del facismo italiano." (The writing itself is enriched by a very intimate and complex reading of the poetry of Ezra Pound, thereby doing something unexpected: the recreation of the voice of the American poet in order to think deep down, through an implicit dialogue, the roots aesthetic politics of Italian fascism.) En espanol. 110 pp. ISBN: 970-3502415.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.

    Book ID: 82131
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  • OPENING THE OYSTER: A Story of Adventure. by Marsh, Charles L.
    Marsh, Charles L.
    OPENING THE OYSTER: A Story of Adventure.

    Edition: First edition.

    Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1889. Hardcover first edition - Two young men set off to see the world in 1877 - going from New York to the West,with a stop in Chicago - and from there down to Mexico and the pampas of the Argentinas, on a ship and around the world - vivid descriptions, including San Francisco, the Sierras and deserts of California, and much more. glossy frontispiece and many illustrations in the text. Bound in olive green cloth with gold and black lettering and design on the front. 361 pages.

    Condition: A very worn copy of this rather uncommon book - the cloth along the lower edges and corners is frayed, with the underlying boards visible, blank bookplate on front endpaper, front prelim pages loose, but not detached, front hinge cracked and rear hinge rather clumsily repaired. Still a good reading copy.

    Book ID: 13426
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  • CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. by Martinez, Ruben.
    Martinez, Ruben.
    CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.). First edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

    Condition: Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 44265
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  • CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. by Martinez, Ruben.
    Martinez, Ruben.
    CROSSING OVER: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Metropolitan Books - Henry Holt, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning journalist and poet Martinez follows a migrant family from their small south Mexico town past the border (where they lost three sons in a border incident) and to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin. In addition to being a moving portrait of immigrant culture, this also reveals the ways in which the two cultures - those of Mexico and the United States - are reshaping each other. Illustrated with photographs. 330 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-49088.

    Condition: Good in very good dust jacket (a tight copy, but with extensive highlighting in chapters 5 and 6 only.)

    Book ID: 44264
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  • LADY BULLFIGHTER: The Autobiography of the North American Matador. by McCormick, Patricia.
    McCormick, Patricia.
    LADY BULLFIGHTER: The Autobiography of the North American Matador.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - The personal story of a girl from Texas who has become famous as a bullfighter, a story of courage and perseverance. Illustrated with line drawings by the author and black and white photographs. viii, 209 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in light orange illustrated boards with a red cloth spine in a near fine dustjacket (short tear to bottom edge of dj) Uncommon and especially in this condition.

    Book ID: 85738
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  • THE MOMENT OF TRUTH. by McNicholl, Damian.
    McNicholl, Damian.
    THE MOMENT OF TRUTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pegasus Books, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, one inspired by true events - Set in the 1950s, this is the story of a young woman, a Texan art student, who follows her dream and relocates to Mexico, where she finds herself under the instruction of Fermin, a retired matador who is intent on asserting his dominance in their partnership. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 331 pp. ISBN: 978-1681774268.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 74069
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  • BIG MITCH. by Mitchell, Joseph Everett "Big Mitch" (1892-1965)
    Mitchell, Joseph Everett "Big Mitch" (1892-1965)
    BIG MITCH.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: By the author, (1936). Hardcover first edition - Autobiography, written and published when the author was a city councilman and police commissioner in Salinas, CA. Born in the Ozarks of Missouri, he led an adventurous life including time on the Mexican border, working in the California oil fields at McKittreck, and a short but successful period as a heavyweight boxer, while he was still working as an insurance salesman. At one point, he wound up on a Georgia chain gang for riding on a freight train - later he was the chief of police (and the only police officer) in McKittreck. INSCRIBED on the half title page. 303 pp.

    Condition: Very good - some sunning to the covers, and slight spine slant - but a tight and sturdy copy. No dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87334
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  • Mitchell, Joseph Everett "Big Mitch" (1892-1965)
    BIG MITCH.

    Edition: First printing.

    San Francisco: By the author, (1936). Hardcover first edition - Autobiography, written and published when the author was a city councilman and police commissioner in Salinas, CA. Born in the Ozarks of Missouri, he led an adventurous life including time on the Mexican border, working in the California oil fields at McKittreck, and a short but successful period as a heavyweight boxer, while he was still working as an insurance salesman. At one point, he wound up on a Georgia chain gang for riding on a freight train - later he was the chief of police (and the only police officer) in McKittreck. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1937. 303 pp.

    Condition: Good condition overall - spine slant and some sunning to the covers - but a tight and sturdy copy. No dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87547
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  • GRAY SKIES TOMORROW. by Molina, Silvia.
    Molina, Silvia.
    GRAY SKIES TOMORROW.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    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.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 85450
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  • SINGING INTO THE PIANO. by Mooney, Ted.
    Mooney, Ted.
    SINGING INTO THE PIANO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - When Santiago Diaz, a former soccer star and candidate for president of Mexico, observes an overt act of sexual display as he is speaking from the stage, he becomes intrigued and "draws the couple into his world of Mexican politics, economics, and danger. Invited to visit Diaz and his wife at their home in Mexico, Andrew and Edith find themselves first seduced by the glamour of a political campaign and then increasingly endangered by a skein of conspiracy, violence, and death." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-679416927.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 85118
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  • DREAMERS. by Morales, Yuyi.
    Morales, Yuyi.
    DREAMERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gorgeous book, written and illustrated by this award-winning writer and artist, and winner of the 2019 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award. This tells Morales's own story - "In 1994, she left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. She brought her strength, her work, her passion, her hopes and dreams and her stories. . . Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There,…

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    New York: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A gorgeous book, written and illustrated by this award-winning writer and artist, and winner of the 2019 Pura Belpre Illustrator Award. This tells Morales's own story - "In 1994, she left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. She brought her strength, her work, her passion, her hopes and dreams and her stories. . . Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi spoke no English whatsoever at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their home within it" - as well as that of all the dreamers, the immigrants who come to the US hoping to find a home there. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0823440559.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 80274
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  • THE WINE OF VIOLENCE. by Morrow, James.
    Morrow, James.
    THE WINE OF VIOLENCE.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a dystopian future - on the one side, there is Quetzalia, behind fortress walls, free of machine technology and devoted to peace and the mystical practices of ancient Mexico - and outside the walls on the wasteland plains is a people of unbridled savagery. 273 pp. Dust jacket art by Les Edwards. ISBN: 0-688052843.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84697
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  • LET NOON BE FAIR. by Motley, Willard (1909 - 1965)
    Motley, Willard (1909 - 1965)
    LET NOON BE FAIR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last book by this Chicago African American novelist, who is best known for 'Knock on Any Door.' Published posthumously, this "builds on Motley's long residence in Mexico by telling the story of a small coastal Mexican village (based on Puerto Vallarta) that becomes a centre for tourists from the USA. Motley's thesis is that the economic benefits that come with tourism are completely outweighed by negative factors the loss of authentic Mexican culture and an accompanying loss of self respect among the citizens of the town." (Literary Enclyclopedia) Among the criticisms Motley faced was that he was a Black Man writing about white characters (or in this novel, many…

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    New York: Putnam, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last book by this Chicago African American novelist, who is best known for 'Knock on Any Door.' Published posthumously, this "builds on Motley's long residence in Mexico by telling the story of a small coastal Mexican village (based on Puerto Vallarta) that becomes a centre for tourists from the USA. Motley's thesis is that the economic benefits that come with tourism are completely outweighed by negative factors the loss of authentic Mexican culture and an accompanying loss of self respect among the citizens of the town." (Literary Enclyclopedia) Among the criticisms Motley faced was that he was a Black Man writing about white characters (or in this novel, many are Mexicans) - to which his response was that his race was the human race. In 2004, he was inducted in the Chicago Hall of Fame. 416 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86800
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  • BLACK ULYSSES. by Panger, Daniel.
    Panger, Daniel.
    BLACK ULYSSES.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1982.). First edition - Novel based on the travels of the Moroccan slave Estevan who accompanied the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez, also known as Cabeza de Vaca, across the southern part of the New World - from what is now Florida to the Gulf Coast of Mexico - from 1527 to 1536. Maps. INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page and dated in 1990. 402 pp. ISBN: 0-8214-06809.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 52109
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  • IRON RIVER. by Parker, T. Jefferson
    Parker, T. Jefferson
    IRON RIVER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel, as he joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force on the 'iron river' - the illegal flow of guns from the US to drug dealers in Mexico. SIGNED on the title page. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780525951490.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to front flap of dj.)

    Book ID: 50906
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  • THE BORDER LORDS. by Parker, T. Jefferson
    Parker, T. Jefferson
    THE BORDER LORDS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel - an ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) agent disappears while deep undercover in Mexico.SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 978-0525952008.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 67106
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  • IRON RIVER. by Parker, T. Jefferson
    Parker, T. Jefferson
    IRON RIVER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A Charlie Hood novel, as he joins a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms task force on the 'iron river' - the illegal flow of guns from the US to drug dealers in Mexico. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780525951490.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (prev owner's stamp on front endpaper.)

    Book ID: 66643
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  • CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS. by Paz, Octavio.
    Paz, Octavio.
    CONJUNCTIONS AND DISJUNCTIONS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: The Viking Press, (1969). dj. Hardcover first edition - Wide-ranging "ruminations" by one of Mexico's foremost philosphers and poets on the condition of man, early civilizations, art and literature, sex and science and technology, and of materialism, capitalism and Communism. Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. Index. 148 pp. ISBN: 0-670-237175.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (prev owner's name on upper edge of textblock, light edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 38552
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  • ONE EARTH, FOUR OR FIVE WORLDS: Reflections on Contemporary History. by Paz, Octavio.
    Paz, Octavio.
    ONE EARTH, FOUR OR FIVE WORLDS: Reflections on Contemporary History.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays by this Mexican author, poet, and diplomat which look at "a world - several worlds - poised between the upheavals of the 1960s and the uncertainties of the 1980s." Translated from the Spanish by Helen R. Lane. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-151693943.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on flaps of dj)

    Book ID: 74792
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  • SUN STONE. by Paz, Octavio; Translated by Muriel Rukeyser.
    Paz, Octavio; Translated by Muriel Rukeyser.
    SUN STONE.

    Edition: First printing, a slim trade paperback original.

    New York & London: New Directions & Villier's, (1963). First edition - A single poem first published by Paz in Spanish in 1957, and published here in a bilingual edition with the original Spanish on the verso, the translation into English by Muriel Rukeyser. Includes a foreword by Rukeyser. A title in the World Poets Series. 47 pp.

    Condition: Good overall - some toning and soiling to the covers.

    Book ID: 76795
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  • BETWEEN US AND ABUELA: A Family Story from the Border. by Perkins, Mitali. Sara Palacios, illustrator.
    Perkins, Mitali. Sara Palacios, illustrator.
    BETWEEN US AND ABUELA: A Family Story from the Border.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "It's almost time for Christmas, and Maria is travelling with her mother and younger brother, Juan, to visit their grandmother on the border of California and Mexico for La Posada sin Fonteras. For the few minutes they can share together along the fence, Maria and her brother plan to exchange stories and Christmas presents with the grandmother they haven't seen in years. But when Juan's present iis too big to fit through the slats in the fence, Maria has a brilliant idea. She makes it into a kite that soars over the top of the iron bars." SIGNED on the title page by Mitali Perkins. Illustrated by Sara Palacios. Author's note. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0374303730.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 77442
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