New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.). First edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. Unlike most ARCs, this advance issue has a very different cover than the design used on the dust jackets of the trade edition. Author's letter to the reader. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. A moving story, with no easy answers, inspired by Alvarez's own work with the increasing number of Mexican farm workers and their children in Vermont. The title of the book refers to the name given by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents (the ICE or "la migra") to their raids in 2006 - Operation Return to Sender. SIGNED on the title page. Novel written for young adults or older children. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-375-858385.

By the author, (2012). "Lured to the Pacific Northwest by the salmon and timber industries, thousands of immigrants passed through the Columbia River Quarantine Station. In 1891 the U.S. mandated the health inspection of vessels at all Ports of Entry. This is one of the stories Knappton Cove tells in its 300 years of documented activity. Nancy Bell Anderson compiles the history and combines it with her own memoirs to offer the reader a delightful journey of the tales of the American dreamers that set food on these shores." Illustrated throughout with photographs, maps and drawings. Large format. 100 pp. ISBN: 978-1478108184.

New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Big Bend Mountain National Park in Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399155697.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in the 1850's in a small town of the shores of Lake Erie in northwestern New York State - the story of a matriach, Janie Cauder, a widow who immigrated to the US from England with her four children, but also a story of the waves of intolerance - anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism - that swept over parts of America in the 1850's. 533 pages.

New York: Viking, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the coming-of-age story of a young girl who left Vietnam with her family in 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, and began life with her family in Maryland - and also the story of her mother, whose journey began in a rural village to a convent school and to life in Saigon with her wealthy husband - and then to a grocery store in Maryland. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-670873675.

New York: Flatiron Books, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised third novel, a story of the resilience and resourceful of first generation immigrants, inspired by her mother's story. Cristina Garcia commented that it "holds an unflinching gaze on one young immigrant woman's life - its hardships, its hopes, and its richly depicted loves. Ana's story is filled with music and reverence for survival, and for joy. An essential read for our times." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 978-1250205933.

New York: Doubleday, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Sequel to "Sister of My Heart" although this exploration of the lifelong friendship between two women, from India, who emigrated to the United States stands on its own as an exploration of the ties that bind us. SIGNED on the title page. 373 pp. ISBN: 0-385-497296.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The rather uncommon true first edition of the second novel by this Barbados born author. This is the moving story of a Caribbean immigrant woman who leaves behind everything - including, for too many years, her daughter - in order to build a better life for her family in Canada, only to find herself plunged into an alien culture and a painful struggle against racism and alienated from her beloved daughter.Dustjacket praise from E. Annie Proulx and Caryl Phillips, among others. 325 pp. ISBN: 0-39422387X.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A multi-generational story, which follows one family from China to Cuba in 1857 and to the United States in modern times. SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410562.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A multi-generational story, which follows one family from China to Cuba in 1857 and to the United States in modern times. INSCRIBED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 0-375-410562.

New York: Pageant Press, (1952). Hardcover first edition - A novel loosely based on the author's experiences in Germany after the first World War and his immigration to America in 1925. Partially written to show the circumstances in Germany which helped to lead to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. Review copy stamped on front endpaper with "publication date Feb 4, 1953" Uncommon. 207 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1976). SIGNED hardcover - A book which tells the story of over 2 million Jewish immigrants who came to in America in four decades beginning with the 1880s, many settling in New York City, and how they strived to keep their Yiddish culture while making their way in the new society. SIGNED by Irving Howe on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Footnotes, reference notes, glossary of Yiddish terms, bibliographical notes, index, xx, 714 pp. ISBN: 0151463530.

New York: Harper & Row, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Kentucky-born author's very highly praised debut novel which tells the story of Taylor Greene, a young woman who after having grown up poor in rural Kentucky, buys an old car and heads west, where she winds up part of an extraordinary household in Tucson, Arizona. 232 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0158638.

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.

New York: Macmillan, (1973.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A "social geography" - the story of the various human layers - Native Americans, Spanish Americans and Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and other Asian immigrants, African Americans, gold miners, Irish immigrants and more - and how a multicultural, multilingual - but 'strangely xenophobic' culture was built. References at the end of each chapter, index. 282 pp.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (2012). First edition - A poetic short novel set in Alburqueque and focusing on a young woman, an immigrant from Mexico, working as a waitress and expecting her first child. Volume 11 in the Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series. 95 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of his autobiography: this begins when he arrives in the US as an 18 year old college student on a tennis scholarship - and it recounts his coming of age in a country overwhelmingly in its immensity, luxuriousness, poverty and despair - and not free from racism. Photographs. Index. 303 pp. ISBN: 0-684190435.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books in association with Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of an immigrant Jewish family's life in America's heartland. "With his wife and small daughter, Max Weisberg left Russia in 1904, went first to Cincinnati and eventually to a 60-acre farm in southern Ohio. The rural community, previously unfamiliar with European Jewish immigrants, accepted the family without prejudice. Weisberg's daughter 'Goldie' recalls her bucolic childhood with affection: the one-room schoolhouse, chores, adapting to local customs. . . an appealing piece of rural Americana. (Publishers Weekly) Illustrated with drawings by Marcia Erickson. 318 pp. ISBN: 0-912697954.

Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which re-evaluates the negative impressions of the Chinese in the United States before the first exclusionary account, and which concludes that it was not California which was affected. Notes, bibliographical note, index. x, 259 pp

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The true first edition of her first book, a highly praised and very moving memoir of growing up during China's Cultural Revolution - first on a communal farm, and as a star of the Chinese film industry. SIGNED on the title page. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-575-055294.

New York: Delacorte, (1999) dj. Hardcover - Novel for older children set in China in the early years of the 20th century, the story of a young girl who refuses to have her feet bound, and how this changed her life. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-385326661.