New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. First Edition. The author's fourth and final novel, the manuscript being finished just two weeks prior to his death and published posthumously. The story takes place in Motley's adopted country of Mexico, in a fictional fishing village based on Puerto Vallarta. "The novel depicts..... More

Mexico City: Universidad Nacional de Mexico, 1959. First Edition. Key issue of this long-running periodical produced by the Universidad Nacional de Mexico. Published two short months after Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba after a prolonged conflict with guerilla forces, the front cover features a photographic portrait of a victorious Fidel Castro..... More

New York: Random House, [1968]. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (23cm.); original cloth-backed boards in orange pictorial dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly color illus. Minor wear to jacket extremities, mostly at spine ends, short closed tear to bottom edge of upper panel, small paper flaws to front pastedown and free endpaper..... More

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. First Edition. A novel of the Mexican revolution. With a frontispiece and numerous text illustrations by Enrique Alferez, who is also credited on the jacket as having supplied the material upon which the story is based. Octavo. Orange cloth boards; dustjacket; 331pp. Boards lightly..... More

Mexico City: Alfaguara, 2006. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; dustjacket; 422pp. Fine in Fine jacket - a new-appearing copy. Late novel by the acclaimed Mexican novelist. Text entirely in Spanish. More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. First American Edition. Limited Issue, one of 150 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (23.75cm); burgundy cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase; 531pp. Fine, still sealed in the..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985. First American Edition. Novel set in Mexico in 1914, telling the story of Ambrose Bierce and his last mysterious days south of the border among Pancho Villa's soldiers. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); beige linen and orange cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt..... More

[Mexico]: Grupo Financiero Serfin, [1993]. First Edition. Large quarto (31cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 353pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Catalog of the works of the surrealist Mexican painter. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. More

[Austin]: University of Texas, [1969]. First Edition. Limited to 2000 copies. Slim folio (31cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in red and black; 38pp.; illus. Jacket worn at extremities, small coin-sized loss to upper panel not affecting text, some light foxing, old ring stain, spine darkened; ownership..... More

[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [1999]. First Edition. Square quarto (25.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 207pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Handsome pictorial work on the Mexican muralist. More

New York: Praeger Publishers, [1971]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm.); original cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii,156pp.; map frontispiece. Very minor rubbing to bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Fine. Autobiography of the author's childhood growing up during the Mexican Revolution, 1911-1920. More

Tempe: Maize Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 304pp. Review copy, with publisher's promotional materials laid in. Fine. No hardcover edition was issued. More

New York: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), 1968. First Edition. Detailed chronology of events, with commentary by various authors, surrounding the 1968 student uprising in Mexico City and the subsequent government suppression including the notorious Tlatelolco Massacre of October 2nd, in which at least 300 student protestors were..... More