Poppers the Pony Draws Pin-Ups
no pl. Self-published by the author, no date. Pamphlet. [32p.], 5.5x8.5 inches, explicit line drawings of fantasy women ripe for coloring, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 284239
Magic-realism, magical realism
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The flower in the skull; a novel
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. Hardcover. 180p., very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Second novel by the Mexican American writer follows the struggles of three Latinas over a century in Sonora, Tucson and Los Angeles. More
Cat.No: 45827
Clarivigilia Primaveral
Roma: Lerici editore, 1969. Hardcover. 181p., text in Italian, very good first Italian edition thus in limp red cloth boards in lightly-used red cloth slipcase with white cover labels affixed front and rear. Poeti europei #28. Poetry by the Guatemalan Magic Realist novelist and ambassador to France who was awarded..... More
Cat.No: 224399
The Magic Dog and other stories
Hanover NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1990. Paperback. xiii, 261p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The Cuban American author was a former director of the Center for Caribbean Studies at Casa de las Américas. He defected in 1980. More
Cat.No: 278198
Images of Sowers in Time / Imagenes de sembradores en el tiempo. Jadite Galleries, October/Octubre 18-31, 1990
New York City: Printing by Amigo del Hogar for Jadite Galleries, 1990. Pamphlet. 8p., color exhibit photos and text reproduced on glossy white cardstock with a b&w portrait photo of artist, a 10x8 inch pamphlet bound in paste-fastened decorated wraps. Texts in Spanish and English, including Blanco's incomprehensible personal statement..... More
Cat.No: 259098
Equator, the Story and the Letters; an erotic new age novel
Astoria: Times Eagle Books, 1989. Paperback. 273p., minor handling, else in very good condition, tight, clean copy. Signed and inscribed by the author. Blum is the pseudonym of the South Seas-based American author Michael Horowitz. More
Cat.No: 273245
War of Time: stories; The High Road of Saint James, Right of Sanctuary, Journey Back to the Source, Like the Night & The Chosen
New York: Knopf, 1970. Hardcover. 179p., remainder H stamped on f.e.p., light wear and soiling else good first US edition stated, in blue cloth boards and unclipped but lightly worn dj. Cuban author and musicologist born in Lausanne to French& Russian parents, pro-revolutionary and pro-Castro, lived out his life in..... More
Cat.No: 287228
Distant Journeys
Tempe: Bilingual Press, 1991. Paperback. 101p., very good first edition trade paperback in blue wraps with white spine. Short stories. More
Cat.No: 227277
The last song of Manuel Sendero: a novel
New York: Viking, 1987. Hardcover. 450p., remainder mark bottom edge otherwise a very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped, slightly edgeworn dj. Chilean American author's Magic-Realist novel of fetus' refusing to be born. More
Cat.No: 60061
El Candidato Premio UNEAC de Novela 1978 "Cirilo Villaverde"
La Habana: Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba, 1979. Paperback. 168p., 7x4.5 inch softback in decorated color wraps; a very good copy. Novel of political corruption with magical-realism touches from a professor of literature who has written on Garcia Marquez. . More
Cat.No: 182162
Intaglio: a novel in six stories
Houston: Arte Público Press, 1990. Paperback. 159p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 100622
Figures of enchantment
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. 256p., first printing, very good in dj. Indian American novelist. More
Cat.No: 55414
Cuttin' the rug under the moonlit sky; stories and drawings about a bunch of women named Mae
New York: Doubleday, 1997. Hardcover. Unpaginated, profusely illus. with the artist/author's color drawings, first printing, dj with barest hint of fading to spine. More
Cat.No: 50727
Monnew: a novel
San Fracisco: Mercury House, 1993. Hardcover. xii+254p., translators note, very good first US edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. A novel of French colonialism in Africa written by a political exile from the Ivory Coast. Find elements of magical realism. More
Cat.No: 94328
Boletin de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe: A Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Number 40, Junio de 1986
Amsterdam: Centro de Estudios y Documentacion Latinoamericanos, 1986. 122p., 6.5 x 9.5 inches, wraps worn, rear wrap stained, front wrap lightly foxed, else good condition. Text in English and Spanish. Slip laid in advertising a collection of documents on Chile offered by the magazine. Articles on magical realism, migrants' organizations..... More
Cat.No: 248626
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds; Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985
Oakland: PM Press, 2021. Paperback. 216p., 10x8 inches; wraps, New. Heavily illustrated and annotated catalogue of radical science fiction with glossy magazine-style pages. More
Cat.No: 274880
Mangos, Bananas and Coconuts: a Cuban love story
Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996. Hardcover. 162p., very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. First novel by the Cuban American writer. Twin brother and sister, separated at birth by the Revolution, meet and fall in love. A Cuban twist on Tristan and Isolde. More
Cat.No: 41070
The Freewayfarer's Book of the Dead; second phase of Art in Heaven Cycle - signed
Sag Harbor: The Permanent Press, 1995. Hardcover. 270p., fine first limited edition of 1300 copies in red cloth and gilt, unclipped dj. Signed by the author on the title page. Second in a series of generic mythological novels in a magical realist style. More
Cat.No: 123132
Prey, Messiah; a novel.
Indianapolis: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Press, 1998. Paperback. 151p., softbound item, first edition glossy 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, a fine clean copy with a "Review Copy" rubberstamp on the title page. Epigraphs from J. Edgar Hoover (his "prevent a Black messiah" directive) and Isaiah 11:6, about utopian peace. One year after the assassination..... More
Cat.No: 181144
Giant talk: an anthology of third world writings
New York: Random House, 1975. Paperback. xliv, 546p., inscribed and signed by Troupe on the half-title to Robert Chrisman. A softbound, issued simultaneously with the hardbound first edition, a badly damp-damaged copy with staining and/or rippling on every leaf. No adhesions, a readable handleable copy however uglified. As is. Troupe..... More
Cat.No: 294037
Nazaré; a novel
Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2021. hardcover. 303p., in dustjacket, new. More
Cat.No: 274874
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