Search

Criteria:
  • Keyword = mexico
Page:12345Next ›Modify search
Showing 1 to 30 of 131
  • OCCUPIED AMERICA: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation. by Acuna, Rodolfo.
    Acuna, Rodolfo.
    OCCUPIED AMERICA: The Chicano's Struggle Toward Liberation.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harper Collins, (1980, c 1972). A relatively early printing of this classic history which both shows (and attempts to explain) how Chicanos - Americans of Mexican descent - came to be treated as second class citizens and their struggle for their rights. Covers from the conquest of the Southwest to remember the Alamo in Texas, to California and the Delano strike, the deportations of the 1930s and more. Notes, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-06380350X.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88552
    View cart More details Price: $18.00
  • DEAD DINOSAURS by Alexander, Gary
    Alexander, Gary
    DEAD DINOSAURS

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Luis Balam, full-blooded Mayan, ex-policeman, turned tour guide and part-time detective. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46896-2.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58980
    View cart More details Price: $16.50
  • BLOOD SACRIFICE: A Mystery of the Yucatan. by Alexander, Gary
    Alexander, Gary
    BLOOD SACRIFICE: A Mystery of the Yucatan.

    Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, (1993.). First edition - First mystery featuring Luis Balam, full-blooded Mayan, ex-policeman, turned tour guide and part-time detective. 306 pp.

    Condition: Fine in printed wrappers.

    Book ID: 49196
    View cart More details Price: $16.00
  • DEAD DINOSAURS by Alexander, Gary
    Alexander, Gary
    DEAD DINOSAURS

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Luis Balam, full-blooded Mayan, ex-policeman, turned tour guide and part-time detective. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46896-2.

    Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket .(prev owner's sticker)

    Book ID: 17280
    View cart More details Price: $20.00
  • DEAD DINOSAURS by Alexander, Gary
    Alexander, Gary
    DEAD DINOSAURS

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second mystery featuring Luis Balam, full-blooded Mayan, ex-policeman, turned tour guide and part-time detective. SIGNED on the title page. 326 pp. ISBN: 0-385-46896-2.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket .(remainder dot bottom edge)

    Book ID: 3588
    View cart More details Price: $24.00
  • Alvarez , Robert R. Jr.
    FAMILIA: Migration and Adaptation In Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975

    Edition: First printing.

    Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1986). Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. "Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family. Spanish, American, and English exploits paved the way for exchange between Baja and Alta California. Alvarez shows how cultural stability actually increased as migrants settled in new locations, bringing their common values and memories with them." Includes an appendix with the original Spanish field notes, notes, bibliography, index. xv. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-520053470.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 76853
    View cart More details Price: $25.00
  • THE LORD OF THE LAST DAYS, Visions of the Year 1000 by Aridjis, Homero.
    Aridjis, Homero.
    THE LORD OF THE LAST DAYS, Visions of the Year 1000

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Morrow, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Translated from the Spanish by Betty Ferber. A recreation of medieval Spain by one of Mexico's foremost poets and novelists. Laura Esquival called this "dazzling and provocative.. a dazzling rendition of period and place.". ISBN: 0-688-143423.

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

    Book ID: 4995
    View cart More details Price: $25.00
  • Bannon, Laura.
    HAT FOR A HERO: A Tarascan Boy of Mexico.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1954. Hardcover first edition - Charming story of a young boy in a fishing village in Mexico, who learns to take responsiblity for his actions, illustrated in both full-color and black and white by the author. Illustrated endpapers. Bound in blue cloth with full color, full-size illustrated paste-down on front cover. Larger format, unpaginated.

    Condition: Very good in blue cloth (previous owner's name, some fading to the cloth on the back cover.).

    Book ID: 36675
    View cart More details Price: $25.00
  • THE GOLDEN PRINCESS. by Baron, Alexander.
    Baron, Alexander.
    THE GOLDEN PRINCESS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Ives Washburn, (1954) dj. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel about Hernan Cortes in early 16th century Mexico, and Marina, the Nahua woman (one of twenty enslaved people given to the Spanish) who became his mistress, advisor and interpretor, and bore his son. This novel treats her sympathetically, but she has also been called a traitor for the assistance she gave to Cortes. Author's note, bibliography. 378 pp.

    Condition: Very good in red boards with black lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket with overall edgewear, original price of 3.95 still present.

    Book ID: 84094
    View cart More details Price: $17.50
  • GODZILLA IN MEXICO / GODZILA EN MEXICO. by Bolano, Roberto.
    Bolano, Roberto.
    GODZILLA IN MEXICO / GODZILA EN MEXICO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: New Directions, 2008. First edition - Poem in both English and Spanish from "The Romantic Dogs," printed on a single sheet of stiff white paper, 17 1/2 inches tall by 6 inches wide. Black and white photograph of Bolano at the top, text in black.

    Condition: Very near fine.

    Book ID: 68884
    View cart More details Price: $75.00
  • GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond. by Bond, Marshall Jr.
    Bond, Marshall Jr.
    GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond.

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho…

    (more)

    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho Villa's fighting in Mexico in 1918, traveled the length of Africa and finally in the 1930s to the gold rush in the Mohave in California. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. x, 258 pp.

    (less)

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87323
    View cart More details Price: $45.00
  • Bontemps, Arna and Hughes, Langston.
    THE PASTEBOARD BANDIT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A delightful children's story of the meeting of 2 cultures originally written by Bontemps and Hughes in 1935, and never before published. Includes an introduction by Alex Bontemps and an afterword by Cheryl A. Wall. Brightly illustrated by Peggy Turley with full-color, full-page paintings and smaller black and white drawings. ISBN: 0-19-5114760.

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

    Book ID: 17438
    View cart More details Price: $20.00
  • Bontemps, Arna and Hughes, Langston.
    THE PASTEBOARD BANDIT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A delightful children's story of the meeting of 2 cultures originally written by Bontemps and Hughes in 1935, and never before published. Includes an introduction by Alex Bontemps and an afterword by Cheryl A. Wall. Brightly illustrated by Peggy Turley with full-color, full-page paintings and smaller black and white drawings. ISBN: 0-19-5114760.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dj (an unread copy, but some signs of handling.)

    Book ID: 11552
    View cart More details Price: $16.50
  • THE LITTLE MEXICAN DONKEY BOY. by Brandeis, Madeline (1897-1937)
    Brandeis, Madeline (1897-1937)
    THE LITTLE MEXICAN DONKEY BOY.

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1931.) dj. Hardcover - The eighth title in the "Children of All Lands Stories" series. Set in a small town in Mexico, this is the story of a young boy and his burro, and how he discovered his talent as a potter. Illustrated with photographs of children taken by the author. Red and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in light blue illustrated boards with a royal blue cloth spine and printed throughout on good quality semi-glossy paper. Vocabulary list. 224 pp. Flap of dust jacket lists to #12 in this series.

    Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (some offsetting on the endpapers, spine of the dj is sunned, and with a short tear at the upper edge, front cover illustration is bright and attractive).

    Book ID: 64733
    View cart More details Price: $20.00
  • HOLY WEDNESDAY: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico. by Burkhart, Louise M.
    Burkhart, Louise M.
    HOLY WEDNESDAY: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico.

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

    Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1996). First edition - "Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday, Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. An accompanying commentary analyzes the differences between the two versions to reveal how the native author altered the Spanish text to fit his own aesthetic sensibility and the broader discursive universe of the Nahua church.". Illustrated with photographs.A title in the New Cultural Studies series. Notes, references, indes. xii, 314 pp. ISBN: 0-8122-15761.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 58714
    View cart More details Price: $18.00
  • THE ARMY BOYS ALONG PERSHING'S TRAIL. by Burley, Major Andrew S.
    Burley, Major Andrew S.
    THE ARMY BOYS ALONG PERSHING'S TRAIL.

    Edition: Later printing.

    Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, n.d. (ca 1930, c 1919) dj. Hardcover - Adventure novel about Pershing's pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1916-1917. 252 pp plus 10 pp publisher's ads.

    Condition: Good overall in brown cloth with black lettering and border on front cover (usual rather severe toning to the pages, but a tight and sturdy copy), in a good dust jacket with overall edgewear, some crinkling and staining.)

    Book ID: 68171
    View cart More details Price: $18.00
  • Calderon, Sara Levi.
    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: 13309
    View cart More details Price: $13.50
  • THE TWO MUJERES. by Calderon, Sara Levi.
    Calderon, Sara Levi.
    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: 12987
    View cart More details Price: $11.50
  • THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: Dispatches from the Border. by Cantu, Francisco.
    Cantu, Francisco.
    THE LINE BECOMES A RIVER: Dispatches from the Border.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Riverhead Books, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book, an account of his four years in the Border Patrol, between 2008 to 2012, and afterwards - a book which reveals the violence our border and policies wreak on both sides. The son of a park ranger, Cant grew up in the southwest and when he joined the Border Patrol, he became a witness to the stark realities of the desert, where the obligations of his job weighed heavily against his sense of humanity. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 73052
    View cart More details Price: $30.00
  • MOTOR TALES AND TRAVELS IN AND OUT OF CALIFORNIA. by Carolan, Herbert.
    Carolan, Herbert.
    MOTOR TALES AND TRAVELS IN AND OUT OF CALIFORNIA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1936. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes accounts of trips to Alaska, Chicago, the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest, Mexico, and especially many trips of excursions around California, including the Mother Lode country of the Sierra Foothills, the high Sierras, the desert and more. Illustrated with many photographs. Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the author to Howard L. Rowe, Madera County Superintendent of Schools and dated in 1941. 241 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in blue cloth with orange lettering, but lacking the dust jacket.

    Book ID: 56004
    View cart More details Price: $40.00
  • AMIGOLAND. by Casares, Oscar.
    Casares, Oscar.
    AMIGOLAND.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - Texas author's first novel, following a highly praised collection of short stories. Two feisty aging brothers and their housekeeper take a road trip to Mexico, to their past and into the history of their family. 357 pp. ISBN: 9780316159692.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of crinkling to the dj)

    Book ID: 67556
    View cart More details Price: $16.50
  • LA DIOSA DE LAS AMERICAS: Escritos Sobre la Virgen de Guadalupe (Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe) by Castillo, Ana, editor (Pat Mora and Cherie Moraga, signed; Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Francisco Goldman, and others, contributors.)
    Castillo, Ana, editor (Pat Mora and Cherie Moraga, signed; Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Francisco Goldman, and others, contributors.)
    LA DIOSA DE LAS AMERICAS: Escritos Sobre la Virgen de Guadalupe (Goddess of the Americas: Writings on the Virgin of Guadalupe)

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Espanol (Knopf), (2000.). SIGNED - A collection of essays and poems by 21 writers - including Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferre, Francisco Goldman, Cherie Moraga, Luis Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Elena Poniatowska, Nancy Mairs, Denise Chavez, Rosario Castellano, Pat Mora, Margaret Randall and others - exploring the concept and the role of the mother goddess, the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden, who miraculously appeared in the 16th century to a poor Mexican and who represents a combination of indigenous Aztec and Catholic traditions. SIGNED by TWO authors: Pat Mora at her contribution "Las Reglas de Coatlicue." and Cherie Moraga at "El Mito Azteca." Translated from the English by Mariela Dreyfus. EN ESPANOL. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-375703691.

    Condition: Very good condition (underlining on one page, brackets on another.)

    Book ID: 75092
    View cart More details Price: $27.50
  • QUARTERDECKS AND SPANISH GRANTS. by [Clar, Captain John] Clar, C. Raymond.
    [Clar, Captain John] Clar, C. Raymond.
    QUARTERDECKS AND SPANISH GRANTS.

    Edition: First thus- a large trade paperback.

    Rancho Cordova, CA: Landmark Enterprises, (1984.). "Concerning Captain John Clar, his United States Navy career after graduation from Spain's Naval Academy; his visit to Mexican California in 1836 and again at the capture in 1842; the historic Gold Rush voyage of Barque Humboldt."A respectful biography written by an admiring grandson, we learn of Captain John Clar's life: his graduation from Spain's Naval Academy, his U.S. Naval career and visits to Mexican California in 1836, the Capture in 1842, the historic Gold Rush voyage of Barque Humboldt, his purchase of Oakland site; settlement at Clarville; the land surveyor, Translator and Keeper of the Old Archives. Illustrated with many vintage photographs, maps, letters. Bibliography, 156 pp. plus 2 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-91084-239.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated turquoise wrappers (an unread copy, but bump to bottom of spine).

    Book ID: 47134
    View cart More details Price: $14.50
  • QUARTERDECKS AND SPANISH GRANTS. by [Clar, Captain John] Clar, C. Raymond.
    [Clar, Captain John] Clar, C. Raymond.
    QUARTERDECKS AND SPANISH GRANTS.

    Edition: First thus- a large trade paperback.

    Rancho Cordova, CA: Landmark Enterprises, (1984.). "Concerning Captain John Clar, his United States Navy career after graduation from Spain's Naval Academy; his visit to Mexican California in 1836 and again at the capture in 1842; the historic Gold Rush voyage of Barque Humboldt."A respectful biography written by an admiring grandson, we learn of Captain John Clar's life: his graduation from Spain's Naval Academy, his U.S. Naval career and visits to Mexican California in 1836, the Capture in 1842, the historic Gold Rush voyage of Barque Humboldt, his purchase of Oakland site; settlement at Clarville; the land surveyor, Translator and Keeper of the Old Archives. Illustrated with many vintage photographs, maps, letters. Bibliography, 156 pp. plus 2 pp. Index. ISBN: 0-91084-239.

    Condition: Fine (as new) in illustrated turquoise wrappers.

    Book ID: 39786
    View cart More details Price: $16.50
  • ON MEXICAN TIME. by Cohan, Tony.
    Cohan, Tony.
    ON MEXICAN TIME.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Broadway Books, (2000). First edition - An American writer and his wife find a new home in the 16th century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 264 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 59617
    View cart More details Price: $18.50
  • ON THE ROAD TO TETLAMA: Mexican Adventures of a Wandering Naturalist . by Conrad, Jim.
    Conrad, Jim.
    ON THE ROAD TO TETLAMA: Mexican Adventures of a Wandering Naturalist .

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Armchair adventure for the reader with a keen interest in both natural history and exotic culture... Here is an 'on the road'tale that combines a naturist's observations, misadventures, encounters with birds and people - and discoveries about himself - during several months in backcountry Mexico." Accounts of life among the Nahuat Indians, and several sections describing the birds. Illustrated with drawings by Kelli Glancey.Index. xi, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802711529.

    Condition: Ex-library with very few marks (appears uncirculated, tight and clean) in a near fine dj.

    Book ID: 73627
    View cart More details Price: $15.00
  • Curley, Daniel.
    MUMMY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh book, third novel, by the author who won the Flannery O'Connor Prize. A story of the mummies of Guanajauto, this an 'epic farce' of the perils of both Mexico and the US West. Dust jacket praise from Stanley Elkins and Roger Ebert who said: "This is a wonderful novel which poses the question, what should you do on finding your mother's mummy on display in a museum. Curley's hero undertakes an expedition both comic and insanely pragmatic, into the worlds of the macabre, the grotesque and the enchanted." 241 pp. Dust jacket art by Petra Mathers. ISBN: 0-395-425077.

    Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (tear along gutter of front endpaper.).

    Book ID: 39102
    View cart More details Price: $14.50
  • Curley, Daniel.
    MUMMY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The seventh book, third novel, by the author who won the Flannery O'Connor Prize. A story of the mummies of Guanajauto, this an 'epic farce' of the perils of both Mexico and the US West. Dust jacket praise from Stanley Elkins and Roger Ebert who said: "This is a wonderful novel which poses the question, what should you do on finding your mother's mummy on display in a museum. Curley's hero undertakes an expedition both comic and insanely pragmatic, into the worlds of the macabre, the grotesque and the enchanted." 241 pp. Dust jacket art by Petra Mathers. ISBN: 0-395-425077.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39101
    View cart More details Price: $17.50
  • MIGUEL AND THE GRAND HARMONY. by de la Pena, Matt. Illustrated and signed by Ana Ramirez.
    de la Pena, Matt. Illustrated and signed by Ana Ramirez.
    MIGUEL AND THE GRAND HARMONY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Los Angeles: Disney Press, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story about friendship, family and the power of music by this Newbery Medal winning writer, inspired by the Disney/Pixar film 'Coco.' SIGNED on the front endpaper with a very small drawing by the illustrator, Ana Ramirez. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1368023719.

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

    Book ID: 72829
    View cart More details Price: $35.00
  • SIX WHITE HORSES. by Dold, Gaylord.
    Dold, Gaylord.
    SIX WHITE HORSES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A thriller centered on the drug trade between the US and Mexico - "On a beautiful, foggy evening, Marine Corporal Palmer stands at the end of a pier, staring out over the ocean, waiting to meet his girlfriend Suzanne. Instead of meeting Suzanne, however, Palmer encounters Staff Sergeant Harry Wilde, who gives Palmer a stark choice: help Wilde's criminal activities, or be railroaded to jail on drug possession charges.With Suzanne's help, Palmer flees to Mexico. Seven years later, ex-Sergeant Wilde is a rich drug dealer and gun runner, trading stolen Marine guns for the deadly synthetic heroin, fetanyl." SIGNED on the title page. 274 pp. ISBN: 0-31229025X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68325
    View cart More details Price: $25.00