Mexico City: the magazine [Artes de Mexico], 2001. Paperback. 120p., plus a dozen supplementary pages, magnificent large magazine (12.5x9 inches, a full half-inch thick) with presswork on heavy glazed alkaline paperstock and enclosed in similarly impressive frenchfold cardstock wraps. A very good, perhaps fine copy; contents are various and would..... More

Cat.No: 326084

Teguesquitengo, Morelos: the hacienda, n.d., possibly 1950s. Pamphlet. [8]p., two leaves of inexpertly handmade paperstock (flecked grey-brown paper) but plainly alkaline stuff, fastened with a single staple, staple also in good shape. The extended leaves would measure 8x5.5 inches but are printed and folded to make a tiny pamphlet of..... More

Cat.No: 317884

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. 141p., Map of "The Empiur of the Culhua Mexica" affixed to inside rear cover. sky blue wraps with 3 holes for strings drilled through the pages, a "mills college" library stamp on front wrap, a little edge and shelf worn but otherwise in good..... More

Cat.No: 265862

Madrid: Ediciones Jose Porrua Turanzas, 1969. Hardcover. xi, 287p., illustrated solely with a photoportrait of the honoree, a custom-bound item measuring 10x7 inches, plainly publisher-issued first in soft binding but here cased into open-weave blue cloth boards with spine-titling gilt on a green leather panel. Nice job, but we could..... More

Cat.No: 288359

Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1977. Hardcover. 191p., very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dust jacket. Novel of an older Chicano in search of his 'Spanish' origins. More

Cat.No: 105067

Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1967. Hardcover. 322p. cloth first edition, illustrations and maps as called for, first edition in brick-red cloth boards titled in gilt. Edges of casing are fractionally faded -just a trace- the item else as new: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Spain in the West -..... More

Cat.No: 64119

Chur, Switzerland / London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, undated republication / orig. 1872. Paperback. xxii, 143p., softbound in 8x5 inch decorated wraps; texts photocopied from the Hakluyt original. Quite sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy. More

Cat.No: 278838

Albuquerque: United States Coronado Exposition Commission, 1940. Paperback. iv, 82p., abundantly illustrated in b&w photoreproduction, text a condensation of a large project occupying multiple volumes when complete, this treatment softbound in 8x5.5 inch yapp-edged paper covers, The yapp (overlapping) wrapper margins are worn, torn and missing bits, and bear some..... More

Cat.No: 271791

Culiacan, Sinaloa: Talleres Graficos del Gobierno del Estado, Agosto de 1941. Paperback. 206p., vignette illustrations (portrait sketches, simple woodblocks), paperbound in 8x5 inch coated wraps. Faint dampstain has touched the cover, textblock unaffected and clean, a sound good copy. Text in Spanish. More

Cat.No: 216756

n.p. The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1969. Pamphlet. Offprint, pp.703-719, 9x6 inch plain printed wraps, a single signature side-stapled in very good condition (slightest signs of handling, none of age) inscribed and signed in full in February 1970. Primarily a defense of Las Casas' "Very Brief Account" by dint of..... More

Cat.No: 314352

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Hardcover. xiv, 362p., b&w photo-insert section from period images, first edition cloth boards in dj. Entirely clean and sound, a very good copy. "The blending of four races in Mexico created a new people-- a 'cosmic race,' to use Jose Vasconcelos' evocative phrase" (p.4)..... More

Cat.No: 64111

Cambridge: Peabody Museum, 1917. Paperback. [xvii], 206p., errata slip tipped in, softbound in plain printed brown yapp-edged wraps, the overlapped margins ragged with a corner-tip loss. Else sound, and clean and unmarked, a very good copy, if somewhat uglified by the irregular marginal damage. Papers of Peabody Museum of American..... More

Cat.No: 272712

London: The Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. First Folio Society issue, hot type on laid-lined paperstock, hardbound in decorated buckram boards under a pressed-Morocco backstrip ruled and lettered in gilt. A fine treatment but spoilt by severe abrasion of the leather spine, a particularly gross scuff having wiped out the author..... More

Cat.No: 279180