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DEAD OF NIGHT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book and second suspense novel featuring Cuban-American lawyer Charlie Morrell - a story based on the worlds of santeria and the darker one of palo mayombe. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Michael Connelly and T. Jefferson Parker. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-684814269.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82598More details Price: $30.00 -
DEAD OF NIGHT
Edition: First printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third book and second suspense novel featuring Cuban-American lawyer Charlie Morrell - a story based on the worlds of santeria and the darker one of palo mayombe. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Dust jacket praise from Michael Connelly and T. Jefferson Parker. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-684814269.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82599More details Price: $35.00 -
ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Henry Holt, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Anthology containing the works of over 100 modern American poets, including Martin Espada, Paul Beatty, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman. Patricia Spears Jones, David Henderson, Sandra Maria Esteves and many others. SIGNED by TWO poets: Jessica Hagedorn at her poem "Latin Music in New York" and INSCRIBED by Luis J. Rodriguez at "Meeting the Animal at Washington Square Park." The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner. Notes on the poets, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-32576.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51208More details Price: $30.00 -
ALOUD: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe.
Edition: First printing, a large trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
New York: Henry Holt, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Anthology containing the works of over 100 modern American poets, including Martin Espada, Paul Beatty, Sapphire, Ntozake Shange, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Eileen Myles, Wanda Coleman, Thulani Davis, Victor Hernadez Cruz, Patricia Spears Jones, David Henderson, Sandra Maria Esteves and many others. SIGNED by Luis J. Rodriguez at "Meeting the Animal at Washington Square Park." The selected works were all first performed at New York City's Nuyorkian Poets' Cafe --- founded by poets Miguel Algarin, Miguel Pinero, and others. 1994 American Book Award Winner. Notes on the poets, 514 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-32576.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69721More details Price: $24.50 -
BLUE MESA REVIEW: Number Four (4): Spring 1992.
Edition: First printing.
Albuquerque: Creative Writing Center at the University of New Mexico, 1992. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by TWO contributors - Luis Urrea at "Bid Farewell to Her Many Horses" (an early publication, preceding his first book) and by Floyd Salas as his poem "Wedo." Also includes works by Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Peter Wild, Gerald Burns, Benjamin Alire Saenz, Ray Gonzalez, Reuben Sanchez, Rebecca Seiferle, Joy Harjo. Leslie Marmon Silko and many others. Notes on contributors. 221 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70188More details Price: $40.00 -
MURALS: Walls That Sing.
Edition: First edition.
Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish . (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning photo-essay on murals from the cave paintings to colonial church murals, to the masterpieces of Diego Rivera, Orozco and other Mexican masters, the singing walls in American cities and graffiti. The vibrant photos - three to four on each spread - vary between broad shots, close-ups of details, and images of a variety of people either creating or viewing the paintings. Most of the works are in the United States, and many are from Latino and Hispanic communities. The paintings capture the spirit, pride, and history of the individuals depicted. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ancona with a small drawing. Oblong format. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-761451315.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated boards in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 76844More details Price: $30.00 -
![THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/73037-2---200.jpg?v=1530768189)
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Tess Gallager. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "Incident at Imuris." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Alistair MacLeod, Marilyn Hacker, Julian Barnes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Brenda Hillman, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Doty, Lorna Goodison and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. 534 pp. ISBN: 0-916366588.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed. A contributor's copy with a SIGNED letter laid in from Bill Henderson.
Book ID: 73037More details Price: $60.00 -
![THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/60035-2---200.jpg?v=1525147109)
THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Tenth anniversary edition with an introduction by George Plimpton. Poetry Editors: Stanley Plumly, William Stafford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at "The Secret Lion." Poetry, essays and short stories by 53 other authors, including Tim O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, William Kittredge, Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Russell Banks, Doris Lessing and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxiv, 499 pp. ISBN: 0-916366375.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 60035More details Price: $45.00 -
![THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/60089---200.jpg?v=1470143320)
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1988.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Richard Ford. SIGNED by Alberto Rios at his poem "What She Had Believed All Her Life." Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Rick Bass, Sharon Olds, Francine Prose, William Kittredge, Tess Gallager, Stephen Dunn, Jane Hirshfield, Carol Muske and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxvii, 475 pp. ISBN: 0-916366529.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 60089More details Price: $45.00 -
![POW WOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now. by [Anthology, signed'] Reed, Ishmael, editor, with Carla Blank. Cecil Brown and Lucha Corpi, signed.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51226---200.jpg?v=1519248106)
POW WOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now.
Edition: First printing, the trade paperback issue.
New York: Da Capo Press - Perseus Books, (2009.). SIGNED first edition - An anthology that includes work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the American Muslim experience. Includes contributions from both well-know writers like Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Russell Banks, and Zora Neale Hurston to newly discovered writers of all races, genders, and backgrounds. Among the 60 authors are Chester Himes, Robert Coover, Bharati Mukherjee, Benjamin Franklin, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Ntozake Shange, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mark Twain, Grace Paley, Russell Charles Leong, Charles Wright, James Alan McPherson, and many more. SIGNED by Lucha Corpi and Cecil Brown at their contributions. Foreword by Reed, notes on contributors. xxvii, 505 pp. ISBN: 9781568583426.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 51226More details Price: $30.00 -
MY (UNDERGROUND) AMERICAN DREAM: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 68534More details Price: $40.00 -
THE TWO MUJERES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991. First edition - Love story between two Mexican Jewish women, translated by Gina Kaufer. 211 pp plus glossary,. ISBN: 187996001.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 12987More details Price: $11.50 -
THE TWO MUJERES.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1991. First edition - Love story between two Mexican Jewish women, translated by Gina Kaufer. 211 pp plus glossary,. ISBN: 187996001.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 13309More details Price: $13.50 -
THE MEDICINE MAN OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN AND HIS CULTURAL BACKGROUND.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very near fine in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket with minor wear, some sunning to the spine of the dj. Rather uncommon, especially in this condition and in a dust jacket.
Book ID: 80853More details Price: $185.00 -
NEXUS NEW YORK: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with self-flaps (a new copy).
Book ID: 78134More details Price: $25.00 -
FREEMAN'S CALIFORNIA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press, (2019). First edition - The best new writing on California. An anthology of essays which capture some of the complexities of California as a proud melting pot, among other things. Among the contributors are Lauren Markham, Robin Coste Lewis, HŽctor Tobar, Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon, Rachel Kushner, Xuan Juliana Wang, Elaine Castillo, Frank Bidart, D.A. Powell, Yi-Yun Lee, Juan Felipe Herrera, Tommy Orange, William Vollman and many others. Notes on contributors. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0802147875.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 79483More details Price: $16.50 -
FREEMAN'S CALIFORNIA.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The best new writing on California. An anthology of essays which capture some of the complexities of California as a proud melting pot, among other things: among the contributors are Lauren Markham, Robin Coste Lewis, HŽctor Tobar, Jennifer Egan, Oscar Villalon, Rachel Kushner, Xuan Juliana Wang, Elaine Castillo, Frank Bidart, D.A. Powell, Tommy Orange and William Vollman. SIGNED by Freeman on the title page. Notes on contributors. 287 pp. ISBN: 978-0802147875.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps.
Book ID: 77606More details Price: $24.50 -
WHEN LIVING WAS A LABOR CAMP.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (2000). First edition - The first collection of poems by this writer who was born in a labor camp in the San Joaquin Valley, one which is a "bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there." Includes an introduction by Garcia. A title in the Camino del Sol series. Glossary. 102 pp. ISBN: 0-816520437.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77552More details Price: $17.50 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIV: Best of the Small Presses, 1989 - 1990.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1989.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Introduction by Tess Gallager. Poetry, essays and short stories by many authors, including Alistair MacLeod, Alberto Rios, Marilyn Hacker, Julian Barnes, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Brenda Hillman, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Doty, Lorna Goodison , Lydia Davis, Barbara Wilson, Brenda Hillman, Louise Gluck, Li-Young Lee and many others. SIGNED by Brenda Hillman at her poem "At a Motel." Index to the series, notes on contributors. 534 pp. ISBN: 0-916366588.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (spotting to lower edge of textblock, short closed tear to front cover of dj)
Book ID: 71720More details Price: $35.00 -
THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986.
Edition: First printing.
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An annual small press reader." Tenth anniversary edition with an introduction by George Plimpton. Poetry Editors: Stanley Plumly, William Stafford. SIGNED by THREE contributors: by William Kittredge at "Agriculture; " T. C, Boyle at "The Hector Quesadilla Story" and by Alberto Rios at "The Secret Lion." Poetry, essays and short stories by 53 other authors, including Tim O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, Bukowski, Amy Clampitt, Russell Banks, Doris Lessing and many others. Index to the series, notes on contributors. xxiv, 499 pp. ISBN: 0-916366375.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 39267More details Price: $75.00 -
![FIESTAS: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration. by Kleven, Elisa, illustrator, signed] Orozco, Jose-Luis.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51657---200.jpg?v=1519247040)
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: 51657More details Price: $30.00 -
BUM RUSH, THE PAGE: A Def Poetry Jam.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Three Rivers Press/ Random House, (2001). First edition - A significant collection by poets of all ages and ethnicities - "These poems are tough, honest, astute, perceptive, lyrical, blunt, sad, funny, heartbreaking, and true. They shout, they curse, they whisper, and sing. But most of all, they tell it like it is. (Tony Medina, Introduction) Foreword by Dr. Sonia Sanchez. Among the contributors are Jayne Cortez, Amina Baraka, devorah major, Cornelius Eady, David Henderson, Eugene Redmond, Jeffrey Bernard Allen, and many more. Notes on contributors. xxxiii, 284 pp. ISBN: 0-609808400.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 69326More details Price: $17.50 -
LYDIA MENDOZA'S LIFE IN MUSIC / LA HISTORIA DE LYDIA MENDOZA: Norteno Tejano Legacies.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37534More details Price: $25.00 -
LOCAS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Grove Press, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the story of two young gang girls set in the rough LA Echo Park neighborhood, a world exploding with drugs and violence. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page "Dear ---- Thank you for attending our panel on magic!" and dated in 2008. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16051.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56878More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BALLAD OF GATO GUERRERO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second mystery featuring Denver attorney, Luis Montez (the first book in the series was an Edgar award nominee for best first mystery.) SIGNED on the title page. 183 pp. ISBN: 0-312-109350.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 53473More details Price: $25.00 -
BASKETRY AS METAPHOR: Arts and Crafts of the Desana Indians of the Northwest Amazon (Occasional Papers of the Museum of Cultural History, Number 5).
Edition: First printing in wrappers.
Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, Museum of Cultural History, (1985.). First edition - The first extensive study of the basketry of the Tukanoans of the Columbian northwest Amazon region, a study undertaken in the 1960's when the impact of outside civilization had not yet been so damaging to the traditional culture. This focuses not on the utilitarian aspects of baskets, but on the connections with their myths, religion, and historical traditions. A lovely book, illustrated with a frontispiece, a map and 22 other figures showing design elements and 76 black and white photographs, showing the process of creating the baskets and details of the baskets themselves. Notes. Bibliography. Large format measuring 11 inches tall by 8.5 inches. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-930741-03X.
Condition: Fine in stiff illustrated beige and terra cotta covers. (a new copy.)
Book ID: 47165More details Price: $50.00 -
![STORY [Magazine] Summer 1991. by (Rios, Alberto Alvaros, signed; Steven Millhauser, Mary Grimm, Elizabeth McCracken and others, contributors) Rosenthal, Lois, editor.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/39265---200.jpg?v=1519282175)
STORY [Magazine] Summer 1991.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Cincinnati: F & W Publications, 1991. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED by Rios at his story "Saturnino el Magnifico." In addition to the authors listed above this issue includes works by Charlotte Holmes, Edward Allen, David Shields, Joan Wickersham and more. Notes on contributors. Advertisements. 128 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 1045-0831.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff white illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39265More details Price: $24.00 -
THE LITTLE SEVEN-COLORED HORSE: A Spanish American Folktale.
Edition: First printing
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With perservance and the help of a magical horse, Juanito, the youngest son of a farmer, wins the hand of the mayor's beautiful daughter." Colorful watercolor illustrations by Jan Thompson Dicks throughout the book, English / Spanish glossary, notes on sources and settings. Oblong format. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-0412.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (one page has light orange marking in margin.)
Book ID: 59455More details Price: $21.50 -
A NATURAL MAN.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Collection of poetry by this award winning Chicano writer, mostly set in California's central valley. A National Book Award finalist, in this book, he "tackles the shabby reality of the world around him and turns it into vivid poetry. Drawing on the Chicano slang of the barrio, Soto gives authentic voice to portraits of life set mostly in California's San Joaquin Valley, where he was born and raised." SIGNED on the title page. 71 pp. Cover illustration by Jose Ortega. ISBN: 0-08118-25183.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (name blacked out inside front cover).
Book ID: 61916More details Price: $30.00
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![THE PUSHCART PRIZE X: Best of the Small Presses, 1985 - 1986. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/60035-2---800.jpg?v=1525147109)
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![THE PUSHCART PRIZE XIII: Best of the Small Presses, 1988 - 1989. by [Anthology, signed] Bill Henderson, Bill, editor. Alberto Alvarez Rios, signed](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/60089---800.jpg?v=1470143320)
![POW WOW: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now. by [Anthology, signed'] Reed, Ishmael, editor, with Carla Blank. Cecil Brown and Lucha Corpi, signed.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51226---800.jpg?v=1519248106)
![FIESTAS: A Year of Latin American Songs of Celebration. by Kleven, Elisa, illustrator, signed] Orozco, Jose-Luis.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/51657---800.jpg?v=1519247040)
![STORY [Magazine] Summer 1991. by (Rios, Alberto Alvaros, signed; Steven Millhauser, Mary Grimm, Elizabeth McCracken and others, contributors) Rosenthal, Lois, editor.](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/39265---800.jpg?v=1519282175)
