Austin: University of Texas Press, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Study of the Mexican artists, Miguel Covarrubias and his wife Rosa Covarrubias, by a long time friend of Rosa. Illustrated with 8 pages of full color plates and with black and white photographs and reproductions throughout. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in 1995 in Berkeley. Selected bibliography, index xvi, 318 pp. Slightly oversized format. Cover photographs by Edward Weston. ISBN: 0-292-790880.

Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, (1975, c 1973). An uncommon little book by the founder and co-owner (with her husband Jack Pepper) and editor of 'Desert Magazine' - and a friend of Earle Stanley Gardner - as well as a writer enthusiastic about Baja California. This is an account of trips taken in search of the 36 sites of Missions in Baja. Illustrated with photographs, and a map. Index. 126 pp.

London: Eyewear Publishing, (2014). Hardcover first edition - A mystery novel in verse which won Mexico's Xavier Villaurutia Prize in 2009. Bilingual edition with Spanish and English on facing pages translated by poet David Shook (who is also known as Bolano's translator). This "centers around Mr. Gordon, who, after being let go from his job due to his unstable behavior, experiences the unfolding of his spirit in an artificial Californian Eden. In the shade of a thousand-leaved tree, very near a pool's edge, Gordon transcribes his thoughts, memories and questions while he tries to cope with abuse from his wife and his best friend . . a poem written in the magical realist tradition, drawing on both film noir and West Coast thrillers." Translator's note. 191 pp. ISBN: 978-1908998224.

New York: Random House, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The award winning author of the anthropological classic, 'The Children of Sanchez,' revisits the family after the death of of Aunt Guadalupe, and this book is a short and poignant account of how the poor die - of the death itself, and of the funeral, and of the mourning of the other members of the family. 119 pp.

Huntington, WV: University Editions, (1999). SIGNED first edition - Historical novel set in 16th century Mexico, which tells to the stories of four women who marched with Hernan Cortes and the Conquistadors. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 255 pp. Cover by Katheryn Davis. ISBN: 1-560028300.

London: Heinemann, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third espionage novel by this prolific writer featuring Dr. Jason Love, a GP in a Somerset, England, who somehow is always found by trouble. This novels sweeps from the Bahamas to a Mexican mining town to Oregon. Leasor and Love share many things - including owing a vintage Cord automobile and serving in Burma during World War II. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-434410136.

Petaluma: Cameron Kids / Harry N. Abrams (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In her first book as both author and illustrator, Ortega shares her own story of growing up near her familys pineapple farm in Mexico, where she learned the true meaning of magic - book about change and transformation of all kinds what we cant control, such as natural disasters and loss, and what we can. Magic can transform dirt into pineapples, seeds into trees, wool into blankets, words into stories, blank pages into pictures a story into a picture book. SIGNED on the title page with small doodles. A 2023 Pura Belpre Youth Illustration Honor Book. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1951836573.

Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (1990). First edition - El Museo Regional de Guadalajara custodia una importante coleccion de ceramica procedente de Tonala. In Spanish/en espanol. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Bibliografia. 146 pp. ISBN: 9-686068953.

New York: Tambourine Books / Morrow, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A story of the battle between the good healer, who is so kind-hearted he takes in 25 kittens despite the village's opposition, and the bad healer who lives outside the village. INSCRIBED on the title page by Gollub and dated in 1995. A story about a healer who could well be your cat brother. Meow and best wishes" and dated in 1997. The first children's book illustrated with watercolors on textured paper by Oaxaca artist, Leovigildo Martinez. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-688116396.

New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular Netflix series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.

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.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second collection of non-fiction tales which focus on the migration of Mexicans to the United States - from Oaxaca to Chicago, Michoacan to southeast Los Angeles, Tijuana to Texas. In doing so, he has uncovered stories that help illuminate what it is that Mexicans seek when they come north, how they change their new country, and are changed by it. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title page. Map frontispiece. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-82634254X.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1939. Hardcover first edition - A book depicting the day to day life - including working in the corn fields, riding over the prairies, making bricks, bringing water from the well, attending church and going to a fiesta -of two children Nina, Pedro and their dog Perrito, who live in the little Mexican village Chiquito. Illustrated throughout with both black and white drawings and wonderful full color, full page (some double page) lithographs by Barbara Latham. Large format, unpaginated.

New York: Scribner's, 1999. First edition - Highly praised first novel by this writer - born in Mexico, now living in Los Angeles - comments from such diverse writers as Tony Hillerman, John Sayles, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Benitez and more. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-684-85614x.

San Francisco: By the author, (1936). Hardcover first edition - Autobiography, written and published when the author was a city councilman and police commissioner in Salinas, CA. Born in the Ozarks of Missouri, he led an adventurous life including time on the Mexican border, working in the California oil fields at McKittreck, and a short but successful period as a heavyweight boxer, while he was still working as an insurance salesman. At one point, he wound up on a Georgia chain gang for riding on a freight train - later he was the chief of police (and the only police officer) in McKittreck. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in 1937. 303 pp.

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.

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.

New York & London: New Directions & Villier's, (1963). First edition - A single poem first published by Paz in Spanish in 1957, and published here in a bilingual edition with the original Spanish on the verso, the translation into English by Muriel Rukeyser. Includes a foreword by Rukeyser. A title in the World Poets Series. 47 pp.

New York: The Viking Press, (2018.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery in the award winning series featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, basis of the popular A&E series. When Longmire's daughter is kidnapped by the head of a of vicious Mexican drug cartel, he heads into the Mexican desert armed only with his Colt 4, a father's intuition and his keen instinct. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-0525522478.

Kaneohe, Hawaii: Plover Press, (1993). First edition - A love story about two young Mexicans abroad, in the rainy London. Translated from the Spanish by John Mitchell and Ruth Mitchell de Aguilar. Winner of the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize. INSCRIBED on the the title page and dated in the year of publication. 104 pp. ISBN: 0-917635159.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's third novel - When Santiago Diaz, a former soccer star and candidate for president of Mexico, observes an overt act of sexual display as he is speaking from the stage, he becomes intrigued and "draws the couple into his world of Mexican politics, economics, and danger. Invited to visit Diaz and his wife at their home in Mexico, Andrew and Edith find themselves first seduced by the glamour of a political campaign and then increasingly endangered by a skein of conspiracy, violence, and death." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector, Larry Owens and dated in the year of publication. 357 pp. ISBN: 0-679416927.

Boston: Little Brown, (ca 1962, c 1945) dj. Hardcover - Adventure novel set in 16th century Mexico, during the time of the Spanish Inquisition and Cortes' conquest. Basis for the film of the same name. A title in the "Best Seller Library." 474 pp. Map endpapers.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in a dystopian future - on the one side, there is Quetzalia, behind fortress walls, free of machine technology and devoted to peace and the mystical practices of ancient Mexico - and outside the walls on the wasteland plains is a people of unbridled savagery. 273 pp. Dust jacket art by Les Edwards. ISBN: 0-688052843.

New York: Praeger Publishers Inc., (1985). Includes oral histories of participants in seven different Inter-American Foundation supported organizations - among them a textile manufacturer in urban Ecuador, small farmer co-operatives in eastern Paraguay and women's theater in Jamaica - as it shows that "impoverished people will use rural credit and other resources in ways not anticipated by development planners, and that these recipients often know how to make more efficient use of aid than the planners do."Map frontispiece, photographs. Bibliography, index. vii, 197 pp. ISBN: 0-030016924.

New York: Warner, (1995). First edition - Novel by the author of 'Bridges of Madison County.' An American author in Mexico is dealing with writer's block as his money runs low. But then "he was in the right place, or the wrong one, to be the sole witness when a shooter gunned down an American naval officer. At a cafe table with Luz, Danny Pastor saw it all, and saw the possibility of a story, a surefire, prizewinning account that could restore his pride and make him famous. And when the killer approached him, the only other Anglo around, and asked for a ride across the border, Danny, bold with tequila, said yes." 214 pp.