Monterrey: Strike Committee, ca.1930's. An original broadside calling for a labor strike at the Gran Hotel Ancira in Monterrey, Mexico. The Hotel Ancira, which opened in 1912, was owned by capitalist Jose Torrellardona. An elegant, neo-classical building, the hotel is one of the oldest in Monterrey, famously used as Pancho... More about Strike Broadside: Meeting - Gran Hotel Ancira - Monterrey, Mexico (ca.1930's

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 about Contra Villa. Relato de la Campaña 1914-1915

N.p. S.i., 1967. Early edition of this epic poem by the Denver poet, activist, and former professional boxer. Originally self-published in mimeographed format in 1967, Gonazles's epic poem was a major inspiration to the Chicano movement, providing them with both a sense of nationalism and identity. The text is complimented... More about I Am Joaquin

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 about La Marchanta: Novela

New York: Weekly Masses, Co., Inc., 1937. First Edition. Contributors to this issue include Henry Roth, Edwin Rolfe, Dale Kramer, Fielding Burke, Robert Forsythe, Maxwell Bodenheim, Carolyn Corbin, and others. Contains an exclusive interview of Mexican President Lazaro Cárdenas del Río by Joseph Freeman. Superb cover illustration by Bertrando Valloton..... More about New Masses - Vol.XXII, No.10 (March 2, 1937

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. "This beautiful book, the last written and illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, and certainly his finest achievement, presents the plastic arts of the aboriginal inhabitants of Mexico (including Yucatán), Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua: the Maya, Aztecs, "Olmecs," Toltecs, Tarascans, Mixtecs..... More about Indian Art of Mexico & Central America

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 about The Wedge: A Novel of Mexico

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 about The Hydra Head

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 about Burnt Water: Stories

[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 about Teatro Mexicano del Siglo XX [Vol. 3

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 about Poster] Liberacion del Campesino, Dos Fechas: 1919 / 1938: Conquista de la Economia Agricola /...

[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 about Diego Rivera [Signed Bookplate Laid in

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 about Niño: Child of the Mexican Revolution