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SUNDOWN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Big Timber, Montana: Seven Buffalos Press, (1983.). SIGNED first edition - An uncommon collection of 'valley stories' by this California author. SIGNED on the title page. 79 pp. ISBN: 0-916380300.
Condition: Very good+ in stiff orange wrappers (tear at bottom of spine.)
Book ID: 42079More details Price: $25.00 -
AUGUST HEAT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 45923More details Price: $25.00 -
AUGUST HEAT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50260More details Price: $20.00 -
AUGUST HEAT.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (some spotting to the white covers)
Book ID: 60532More details Price: $11.50 -
SANCHEZ AND OTHER STORIES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
Bronx, New York: Gusto Press, (1980). First edition - Very uncommon early collection of this California author's short stories - the title story has been frequently anthologized; the realism of the description of depressed downtown Stockton and the small town in the Sierras is effectively combined with his deceptive simplicity of language. A title in the Gusto Press Regional Series (Central Valley, California). 125 pp. ISBN: 0-933906-145.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 86648More details Price: $40.00 -
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: 44264More details Price: $12.50 -
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: 44265More details Price: $20.00