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: Ediciones Botas, 1935. First Edition. Issued contemporaneously (and uniformly) with the author's two-volume memoir Con Carranza. Gonzalez was Carranza's commander of forces in the Northeast and led the attack on Villa and Zapata, with whom Carranza had split following the Convention of Aguascalientes. This is a substantial (if..... 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
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Albuquerque: Pajarito Publications, 1977. First Edition. Special issue of this journal, featuring essays, poetry, and prose by Chicana authors. Includes contributions by Lucha Corpi, Marina Rivera, Marcella Aguilar, Beatrice Zamora, Rita Sanchez, and others. Octavo (22.5cm); decorative wrappers; 92,[4]pp; illus. Hint of sunning to spine, some trivial wear to extremities..... More
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1932. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 206pp. Some chipping to wrapper extremities, spine a bit toned, else Very Good, internally fine and fresh. Collection of radical and experimental short stories by the author of The Underdogs (1915). More
Mexico City: Ediciones del Seminario de Cultura Mexicana, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black, yapp edges; 154pp. Wrapper extremities unevenly toned, some light wear, else a Very Good, unopened copy. Later novel by the author of The Underdogs (1915), this uncommonly apolitical..... 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
[Mexico City]: Vuelta, [1992]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original card wrappers in green pictorial dust jacket; 153pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, else Fine. Forms part of the series Imaginaciòn. Poetry collection by the Mexican author. 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
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 black paper over boards, quarterbound in black cloth with titles stamped in gilt and red on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; 306pp. Bookplate signed by Fuentes loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First American Edition. Third World spy thriller by the Mexican author. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [10], 292pp. Author's initials on front cover nearly rubbed off, with a...... 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
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 black paper over quarter yellow cloth, wiht titles stamped in copper foil on spine; dustjacket; 231pp. Bookplate signed by Fuentes loosely laid in. Faint foxing to text edges, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, with..... 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
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[México]: Fondo de Cultura Economica, [1956]. 1981 Printing. Small thick 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xxvii,[1],740pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities including short closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel not quite touching image, corners slightly bumped, bookseller rubberstamp to half title, else..... 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
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Mexico City: Cooperativo de Artes Graficas, 1938? Poster promoting the Comité Nacional de la Campaña Pro-Educación Popular and the accomplishments of the Zapatismo agrarian movement in Mexico, featuring a massive portrait of a Zapata-like face adorned with his famously pomaded mustachios. Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919) was a leading figure among the..... More
Mexico City: El Tucan de Virginia, 1994. First, Limited Edition. First printing; 1000 copies printed. Octavo; printed card wrappers with French flaps; 253pp; includes bibliography. Fine, apparently unread copy. Bilingual edition of this anthology of new Mexican poetry, including work by 63 authors including Alejandro Aura, Marco Antonio Campos, Hector..... More
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[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
Morelia: Trabajadores Industriales del Mundo, ca. 1940s?]. First Thus. Octavo (23.5cm.); original white decorative staplebound wrappers; 23pp. Very minimal wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Text entirely in Spanish. Mexican edition of One Big Union. Headquarters address on title page: 2422 Halsted St. North, Chicago, the IWW's address..... 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
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 367pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper. A bright, attractive first edition copy. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket; [10],189pp. Some chipping and wear to jacket extremities, including a few short closed tears; upper cloth cover darkened, edges and spine toned, contents fine. Very Good overall. See ROBERTS, p. 94. More
[Chihuahua: Revista Azar], 1992. First Edition. Small narrow quarto (28cm.); original pictorial pink and blue staplebound wrappers, French flaps; 28,28pp.; folding double-page plate, text illus. throughout. General wear from handling, some dust-soil, else About Very Good. Mexican literary magazine; contents include a collection of quotations by Clarice Lispector, translated by..... More
