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A FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel - Jonathan Franzen called it a "strange, lucid story of the unwished-for child of unassimilated immigrants." 180 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171510.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 4128More details Price: $24.50 -
BROWN: The Last Discovery of America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third book - as with the others, it is an interesting and very personal look at a changing America - "At the core of this book is an assessment of the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America. ... a book about America in the broadest sense full of surprising observations by a writer who is a marvelous stylist as well as a trenchant observer and thinker." 232 pp. ISBN: 0-670030430.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 56624More details Price: $20.00 -
FROM CHINESE EXCLUSION TO GUANTNAMO BAY: Plenary Power and the Prerogative State.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89116More details Price: $22.50 -
LUCKY BOY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Putnam, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A moving and highly praised novel which "presents two very different American stories, tied together by the fate of a child. When Soli Castro-Valdez leaves her small Mexican village for the United States, she endures the difficult journey but arrives pregnant and undocumented. Meanwhile, Kavya Reddy, whose parents immigrated to the US from India, is living a more peaceful life with her husband in Berkeley. Unable to have a child, Kavya becomes a foster parent and when Soli winds up in immigrant detention, her son Ignacio winds up with Kavya." SIGNED on the title page. 472 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70930More details Price: $35.00 -
ISLAND OF TEARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53487More details Price: $15.00 -
ISLAND OF TEARS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery introducing Harper's Weekly contributor and dime novelist Marshall Webb, set in 1892 during NewYork's Gilded Age. Webb finds himself drawn into the tragic side of the immigrant experience - the Island of Tears in the title is Ellis Island. 280 pp. ISBN: 1575667673.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 48999More details Price: $16.50 -
SCIENCE AND POWER IN COLONIAL MAURITIUS.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76119More details Price: $30.00 -
HIGHWIRE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set on the borderlands between California and Mexico - a world where immigrants struggle to maintain their humanity and to protect their families despite the bitter toil, violence and sexual predators. SIGNED on the title page. Finalist for the National Book Award. Map. Glossary, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-618-056149.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 56681More details Price: $30.00 -
IF TODAY BE SWEET.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87883More details Price: $18.50 -
INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009 dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of nineteen year old Nayeki who lives in a remote village in Mexico, a town where many of the men, including her father, have left for the US. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0316025270.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 86921More details Price: $21.50 -
INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009 dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of nineteen year old Nayeki who lives in a remote village in Mexico, a town where many of the men, including her father, have left for the US. 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0316025270.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line)
Book ID: 86922More details Price: $18.50 -
INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York & Boston: Little Brown - Back Bay Books (2010). SIGNED - The story of nineteen year old Nayeki who lives in a remote village in Mexico, a town where many of the men, including her father, have left for the US. SIGNED on the title page. . 338 pp. ISBN: 978-0316025263.
Condition: Good overall (wear to the covers)
Book ID: 60754More details Price: $16.50 -
THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY: A True Story.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Back Bay Books / Little Brown, (2005). SIGNED - 'In May 2001, a group of 26 men. . . attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona through a deadly region known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 of them would survive.' An eloquent and moving book, SIGNED on the title page. Index. 239 pp. plus a conversation with Urrea and a reading group guide. ISBN: 0-316746711.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 72509More details Price: $20.00 -
GHOST SICKNESS.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
El Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press, (1997). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning writer's second collection of poems - he "has captured the grief of a parent's passage in death, multiplied ten-fold by violence" (Denise Chavez) SIGNED on the title page. Includes a translation of the poems which are in Spanish. 95 pp. ISBN: 0-938317-30X.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers (light crease to lower corner of back cover).
Book ID: 61191More details Price: $45.00 -
THE PRESUMED ALLIANCE: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: SIGNED on the half title page. Fine (a new copy) in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 33289More details Price: $25.00 -
WALKING STARS: Stories of Magic and Power.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Houston, TX: Pinata Books / Arte Publico Press, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover - "Autobiographical stories about growing up as the son of Mexican immigrants in California" Each story is followed by an author's note, discussing the context of the story. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 202 pp. ISBN: 1-55885-1186.
Condition: Near fine in fair only jacket with several edgetears.
Book ID: 73297More details Price: $15.00 -
THE GERMAN DIMENSION OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Nelson-Hall, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "touches on the highlights of the German-American contribution the the rise of America. Written in three parts it covers (1) the diverse roles German-Americans have played in American life from colonial times to the present, (2) the German-American participation in U.S. military history since the frontier wars of the 1750s and 60s, and (3) the German-American contributions to America in Science and education." Just to cite two specific examples: the first formal protest against Negro slavery came out of Germantown, Reobling built the first railroad bridge and when German immigration reached its crest in 1854 half of all immigrants that year were German. Bibliography, index. xi, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-882291475.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacke (stamp on top edge of text block, sunning to spine of dj, some wear to top edge)
Book ID: 88833More details Price: $18.00