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371., Abreu Gomez, Emilio. CANEK: HISTORY AND LEGEND OF A MAYA HERO. Berkeley, University of California, 1979. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 68pp . Near fine in price clipped dust jacket. A fictionalized history, biography, written in fragments, of the great leader of the Yucatan Mayan revolt of 1761. $20.00

3390., Arguelles Bringas, Roberto (prologue, sellection & bibliography by Serge I. Zaitzeff). FUERZA Y DOLOR: ANTOLOGIA POETICA DE ROBERTO ARGUELLES BRINGAS. Mexico, Sepsetentas, 1975. 1st edition. 16mo. 191pp . near fine; paperback. In Spanish. The first publication in book form of the poetry of a late 19th century Mexican admired by Nervo, Campos, Tablada, & Reyes. $15.00

2424., Bemelmans, Ludwig. ARE YOU HUNGRY ARE YOU COLD. Cleveland, World, 1960. 1st edition. 8vo. 245pp . Near fine in dust jacket, jacket slightly faded at spine. A novel of pre & post WWII Europe by the author of Madeline. One chapter has the protagonists attending a bullfight. $20.00

1858., Benitez, Sandra. A PLACE WHERE THE SEA REMEMBERS. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1993. 2nd printing. Small 8vo. 163pp . About fine in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author. A novel by the Puerto Rican prize winning author of love and tragedy in a small Mexican costal village. $15.00

2238., Boullosa, Carmen. THEY'RE COWS, WE'RE PIGS. New York, Grove Press, 1997. 1st US edition. Small 8vo. 180pp . About fine in dust jacket. A funny, poignant novel of pirates in the Caribbean by one of the preeminent Mexican women writers, brazen & ribald. $12.50

3603., Camp, Roderic A. (illustrated by Lawrence Mills). MEMOIRS OF A MEXICAN POLITICIAN. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1988. 8vo. 230pp . About fine; paperback. A novel based on the life of lawyer, politician Antonio Gutierrez Enriquez runs from the revolution to 1970. $9.50

1055., Carballido, Emilio. EL SOL. Mexico, Joaquin Mortiz, 1970. 1st edition. 16mo. 121pp . Lightly soiled, very good; paperback. In Spanish. A novel from an author from Veracruz of adolescence & crime & the death of a hermit. $10.00

1089., Castellanos, Rosario. BALUN-CANAN. Mexico, FCE, 1973. 2nd edition. 5th printing. 16mo. 291pp . Lightly creased, very good; paperback. In Spanish. A novel of Comitan, Chiapas with two main characters, indigenous & white. $9.50

846., Castro, Carlo Antonio. LOS HOMBRES VERDADEROS. Xalapa, Universidad Veracruzana, 1959. 1st edition. Small 8vo. 143pp . Rubbed spine, good, tight copy; paperback. In Spanish. A novel of village life of the Tzeltales, a highland Chiapan people, neighbors of the Tzotziles with much ceremonial data. $15.00

1468., Chencinsky, Jacobo. LAS MUERTES DE EDGARDO. Barcelona, Barral Editores, 1974. 1st edition. 8vo. 334pp . Very good; paperback in acetate wrapper. In Spanish. A Mexican novel of multiple veiwpoints. $15.00

950., Christ, Ronald, ed. REVIEW 72: FOCUS ON OCTAVIO PAZ AND SEVERO SARDUY. Fall, 1972. New York, 8vo. 75pp . Soiled, good, tight copy; paperback. Interview with Paz, autobiographical essay by Sarduy, criticism by a variety of writers. $15.00

1813., Coan, Otis W. & Richard G. Lillard. AMERICA IN FICTION: AN ANNOTATED LIST OF NOVELS THAT INTERPRET ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, AND MEXICO. Palo Alto, Pacific Books, 1967. 5th edition. 8vo. 232pp . Pencil marginalia, good, tight copy in worn dust jacket. A standard reference guide with helpful annotations including only books written in or translated to English. $10.00

727., Coccioli, Carlo. MANUEL THE MEXICAN. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1958. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 370pp . Very good in lightly worn dust jacket, jacket spine sunned. A novel of the life of a man from the village of Tepoztlan who wanders the length & breadth of Mexico after the Revolution. $15.00

1377., Cortazar, Julio & Max-Pol Fouchet (edited & designed by Aline Elmayan & Antoine Capel). LEONARDO NIERMAN. Greenwich, Lublin Graphics, 1975. 1st edition. Oblong folio. 141pp . About fine in dust jacket. Well illustrated. In French, Spanish & English. An essay by Cortazar & poem by Fouchet introduce the art of Nierman. $75.00

2064., De Carlo, Andrea. YUCATAN. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 213pp . Small black mark at top edge, else about fine in dust jacket. A novel of magic and love in Yucatan by one of Italy's foremost young writers. $12.50

1052., De Hernandez Diaz, Celia. PORQUE SON HIJOS NO DESEADOS. Mexico, Editorial Jus, 1973. 1st edition. Square 8vo. 93pp . Very good. In Spanish. Illustrated by Jesus Hernandez Diaz. #1662 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. Poetry celebrating the humble & poor. $12.50

2699., Delgado, Rafael. LA CANDELARIA. Orizaba, Pablo Franch, 1891. 1st edition. 8vo. 355pp . Cloth backed marbled boards w/ original wrappers, edge wear. Bookplate of Frederick Starr with his notes on rear wrapper. A great Mexican "costumbrista" novel of the 19th century. $125.00

2639., Diaz Miron, Salvador. SUS MEJORES POEMAS. Madrid, Editorial America, ca1930. 12mo. 144pp . Very good, light underlining in prologue. The great lyric poet of Veracruz of the late 19th & early 20th centuries, a poet of democracy, much like Whitman. $20.00

1210., Elizondo, Salvador. LA LUZ QUE REGRESA: ANTOLOGIA 1985. Mexico, FCE, 1985. 1st edition. 16mo. 242pp . Very good; paperback. In Spanish. Short stories and/or literary essays on the subculture of existentialism, sadism, eroticism, & magic, hints of Poe & Mann. $10.00

3516., Esquivel, Laura. SWIFT AS DESIRE. New York, Crown, 2001. 1st US edition. 12mo. 207 . About fine in dust jacket. Another romantic novel by the author of Like Water for Chocolate, keeping secrets always leads to unhappiness. $9.50

2038., Esquivel, Laura. THE LAW OF LOVE. New York, Crown, 1996. 1st English edition. 8vo. 266pp . About fine in dust jacket. Includes a cd with 11 songs. A novel of love in Mexico City 3 centuries in the future by the author of Like Water for Chocolate. $15.00

236., Fuentes, Carlos. A NEW TIME FOR MEXICO. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1996. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 216pp . About fine in dust jacket. An assessment of modern Mexico, Zapatistas, the P.R.I., assassinations, & moves toward democracy. $11.50

478., Fuentes, Carlos. CHRISTOPHER UNBORN. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. 1st edition. 8vo. 531pp . About fine in dust jacket, tiny wrinkle in jacket. A novel of the apocalyptic "Makesicko City," funny, farcical, & frightening, narrated by a fetus. $15.00

879., Fuentes, Carlos. DIANA: THE GODDESS WHO HUNTS ALONE. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 218pp . About fine in dust jacket. A novel of the beautiful U.S. actress in Mexico, set in 1969, of intrigue, Black Panthers, the F.B.I., & the 1960's. $11.50

1120., Fuentes, Carlos. TERRA NOSTRA. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976. 1st edition. 8vo. 778pp . Lightly soiled, very good in rubbed, price clipped dust jacket. A Fuentes novel I have never been able to finish, but I am told it is his masterwork. I've tried 3 times. $15.00

1421., Fuentes, Carlos. THE CAMPAIGN. New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1991. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 246pp . Near fine in dust jacket. Fuentes explores themes of South American revolution in this novel set in Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Peru, & Mexico. $15.00

1506., Fuentes, Carlos. THE ORANGE TREE. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. 229pp . About fine in dust jacket. Mexico's most gifted story teller here gives us 5 novellas to entertain, instruct, & provoke. $12.50

3703., Gamboa, Federico. SANTA. Mexico, Ediciones Botas, 1947. 13th edition. 8vo. 339pp . Very good, bright cover; paperback. In Spanish. One of the great Mexican novels of the turn of the 20th century. $12.50

811., Gervitz. Gloria. PYTHIA. Mexico, Mario del Valle Editor, 1993. 1st edition. 8vo. 46pp . About fine; paperback; In Spanish. Inscribed by the author. 1000 copies. Illustrated with 3 collotype photographs by Luz Maria Mejia. Poetry sposored by el Consejo Nacional para Cultura. $20.00

1817., Gonzalez, Manuel Pedro. MOTIVOS DE LIRICA AMERICANA (VARIACIONES EN TORNO A MANUEL JOSE OTHON). Santiago de Chile, Editorial Nacimento, 1935. 8vo. 47pp . Very good; paperback. In Spanish. Reprinted from Atenea. Literary biography & criticism of the naturalist poet of San Luis Potosi. $17.50

1005., Ibarguengoitia, Jorge. TWO CRIMES. Boston, David R. Godine, 1979. 1st edition. 8vo. 197pp . About fine in dust jacket. A comic novel of a Mexico City radical on the run, the second in English by the award winning Mexican author. $15.00

830., Jimenez Rueda, Julio. ANTOLOGIA DE LA PROSA EN MEXICO. Mexico, Universidad Nacional, 1931. 1st edition. 12mo. 305pp . Normal browning, very good; cloth backed boards. In Spanish. Introductory essays & selections from Sor Juana, Fernandez de Lizardi, de Zavala, Alaman, Riva Palacio, Justo Serra, & others. $12.50

2134., Jimenez Rueda, Julio. CANDIDO CORDERO, EMPLEADO PUBLICO: FARSA EN TRES ACTOS. Mexico, SEP, 1929. Small 8vo. 135pp . Ex-library, chipped spine, tight working copy. A play, a comedy of the pitfalls & possibilities of public service. $15.00

2047., Labastida, Jaime. A LA INTEMPERIE. Guyamas, Joaquin Mortiz, 1970. 1st edition. 8vo. 67pp . Light rubbing, very good; paperback. In Spanish. #433 of 1500 copies. Poetry of the left; Poema en Tiempo de Guerra (en la Muerte del Comandante Guevara) is my favorite. $15.00

4001. MacLean, Alistair. CARAVAN TO VACCARES. London, Collins, 1970. 1st edition. Small 8vo. 251pp. Very good in price clipped dust jacket. A thriller novel set in a Gypsy pilgrimage in Provence which includes scenes of Provencal cours-libre in the bull ring. $10.00.

2264., Madero, Luis Octavio. "LOS ALZADOS" Y "SINDICATO": TEATRO REVOLUCIONARIO MEXICANO. Mexico, Editorial Mexico Nuevo, 1937. 1st edition. 8vo. 80pp . Soiled cover, good, tight copy; paperback. In Spanish. Two plays by the Mexican Communist Party playwright. $25.00

442., Marquez, Arturo. PRIMO TEMPO 1955-1963. Mexico, Serie Excalibur, Small 8vo. 28pp . Very good; craft paper binding. In Spanish. Number 8 in this poetry series. Undated but probably published in the early 1990's. $9.50

3184., Mastretta, Angeles. LOVESICK. New York, Riverhead Books, 1997. 1st edition. 8vo. 292pp . About fine in dust jacket. A novel by the number-one best selling Mexican author of love in the privileged class of pre-revolutionary Puebla. $10.00

705., Melnykovich, George. REALITY AND EXPRESSION IN THE POETRY OF CARLOS PELLICER. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1979. 8vo. 150pp . Green marks on edges, otherwise good, tight copy; paperback. 13 page bibliography. Analysis of one of Mexico's great "Modernist" poets. $9.50

1068., Michener, James A. MIRACLE IN SEVILLE. New York, Random House, 1995. 1st edition. 8vo. 107pp . About fine in dust jacket; Illustrated by John Fulton. A grown-up's fantasy of the battle between matador & breeder of bulls & the Virgin & a Gypsy fortune teller. $10.00

2677., Mieza, Carmen. LA IMPOSIBLE CANCION. Barcelona, Marte Ediciones, 1965. 1st edition. 12mo. 239pp . Light edge wear, very good. Inscribed by the author. A novel of the Mexican left by a Spanish exile. In Spanish. $15.00

56., Niggli, Josephina. STEP DOWN, ELDER BROTHER. New York, Rinehart, 1947. 1st edition. 8vo. 374pp . Very good in lightly rubbed, chipped dust jacket. The author's first novel, of revolutionary change & generational conflict in 20th century Mexico. $12.50

145., Novo, Salvador. THE WAR OF THE FATTIES AND OTHER STORIES FROM AZTEC HISTORY. Austin, University of Texas, 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. 232pp . About fine; paperback. Essays, short stories, plays, & poems, a light, accurate introduction to Aztec culture. $9.50

2713., Padilla, Ezequiel. THE MEXICAN AUTHOR. Mexico, Mexican Editorial Agency, 1941. 1st edition. 8vo. 14pp . Light soiling, very good; staple bound paperback. Text of a speech honoring the author Jose C. Valades upon the publication of his El Porfirismo. $10.00

582., Pardo Garcia, German. DESNUDEZ. Mexicoc, Libros de Mexico, 1973. 1st edition. 4to. 152pp . Very good in dust jacket, partially uncut. Poetry. $20.00

563., Pardo Garcia, German. EL HEROE. Mexicoc, Libros de Mexico, 1975. 1st edition. 4to. 53pp . Very good in dust jacket, partially uncut. Poetry. $15.00

242., Pardo Garcia, German. MI PERRO Y LAS ESTRELLAS. Mexico, Editorial Libros de Mexico, 1974. 1st edition. 4to. 172pp . About fine in dust jacket. In Spanish. Poetry by a Colombian long in exile in Mexico, a lovely book with decorated end papers & "distressed" edges. $27.50

366., Parmenter, Ross. LAWRENCE IN OAXACA: A QUEST FOR THE NOVELIST IN MEXICO. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1984. 1st edition. 8vo. 384pp . Near fine in dust jacket. Endpaper maps, 16 pages of photographs. The story of D.H. Lawrence in the winter of 1924-25. $15.00

746., Paz, Octavio. EL MONO GRAMATICO. Madrid, Seix Barral, 1974. 12mo. 142pp . Very good, lightly yellowed covers; glossy, paperback. 1st Spanish language edition. Prose-poetry thoughts on Tantric Buddism, art & other subjects. $37.50

3142., Paz, Octavio. EL SIGNO Y EL GARABATO. Mexico, Joaquin Mortiz, 1973. 1st edition. 12mo. 213pp . Lightly browned, very good; paperback. In Spanish. #2743 of 4000 copies. 4 essays of literary criticism range from haiku to Tagore, Tamayo, Baudelaire & theory of translation. $25.00

2695., Paz, Octavio. THE MONKEY GRAMMARIAN. New York, Seaver Books, 1981. 1st US edition. Small 8vo. 162pp . Very good in dust jacket. Translated by Helen R. Lane. $25.00

1035., Paz, Octavio. THE OTHER VOICE: ESSAYS ON MODERN POETRY. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1990. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 160pp . About fine in dust jacket. 7 elegant essays explain the range of modern poetry while chastising Anglocentric criticism. $12.50

2511., Perez G., Cristina. FIABE. Mexico, self published, 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. pp . Near fine; paperback. In Spanish. Edition limited to 300 copies. Unpaginated, approx. 100pp. Nicely inscribed in English by the author. A series of seemingly autobiographical short stories. $25.00

676., Pfandl, Ludwig. DIE ZEHNTE MUSE VON MEXICO: JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ. Munchen, Verlag Hermann Rinn, nd (1947). 1st edition. 8vo. 359pp . Slight cover warping, good, tight copy with torn dust jacket. Published by US military license. From the library of Benzion Hibel, forbidden under Nazi's for psychoanalitic analysis. $75.00

2304., Reyes, Alfonso. OBRAS COMPLETAS, Vol II: VISION DE ANAHUAC; LAS VISPERAS DE ESPAN~A; CALENDARIO. Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1956. 1st thus edition. 8vo. 374pp . Light pencil marginalia, very good in dust jacket. In Spanish. Vision is what it is to be a literary Mexican; Visperas is a view of Spain through Mexican eyes; Calendario is epigramatic. $17.50

1313., Robinson, Cecil (illustrated from drawings by H. Beaumont Williams). WITH THE EARS OF STRANGERS: THE MEXICAN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Tucson, University of Arizona, 1963. 1st edition. 8vo. 338pp . Edge wear, soiled boards, good, tight copy. Bibliography. Covers both Mexico & the Hispanic Southwest, includes Cather, Cooper, Witter Bynner, Harte, Twain, Steinbeck, Horgan & others. $10.00

1968., Rojas Garciduen~as, Jose, ed. AUTOS Y COLOQUIOS DEL SIGLO XVI. Mexico, Universidad Nacional, 1939. 1st edition. Small 8vo. 173pp . Very good; paperback. In Spanish. 4 16th century religious theater works with an introductory essay & notes. $15.00

1916., Romero Carren~o, Alfonso. MAL PAIS. Mexico, Ediciones Botas, 1958. 1st edition. 8vo. 218pp . Very good in lightly worn dust jacket. In Spanish. Nicely inscribed by the author. The novel won the Premio de Literatura Miguel Lanz Duret. $35.00

452., Ruz, Hugo. LA ESTACION ENVINADA. Mexico, Serie Excalibur, Small 8vo. 50pp . Very good; craft paper binding. In Spanish. Number 5 in this poetry series. Undated but probably published in the early 1990's. $9.50

351., Sainz, Gustavo. THE PRINCESS OF THE IRON PALACE. New York, Grove Press, 1987. 1st edition. 8vo. 307pp . About fine in dust jacket. A very funny, wacky book. A novel by the celebrated Mexican writer now living in New Mexico of the fantasies of a teenage shop girl in Mexico City. $12.50

3088., Sierra, Justo. PROSAS. Mexico, Universidad Nacional, 1939. 12mo. 219pp . Browned, good, tight copy; paperback. In Spanish. Short stories, historical essays, speeches & the last letter of one of Mexico's foremost academics. $15.00

460., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. AN EASY THING. New York, Viking, 1990. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 230pp . About fine in dust jacket. Blend Hammett & Garcia Marquez, a dose of humor & ken of Mexican history to produce Mexico's greatest mystery novelist. $12.50

991., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. FOUR HANDS. New York, St Martin's, 1994. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 378pp . About fine in dust jacket. Another great & funny mystery by the Hammett & Planeta prize winner, here Stan Laurel witnesses Pancho Villa's assassination. $15.00

1282., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. LEONARDO'S BICYCLE. New York, Mysterious Press, 1995. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 453pp . About fine in dust jacket. The 3rd Hammett Award winner for the author, tying together contemporary Ciudad Juarez & 1920's Spain, another mystery novel. $17.50

1062., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. LIFE ITSELF. New York, Mysterious Press, 1994. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 210pp . About fine in dust jacket. A professional mystery writer is unprepared for real dead bodies in a revolutionary mining town in this novel. $15.00

1208., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. RETURN TO THE SAME CITY. New York, Mysterious Press, 1996. 1st U.S. edition. Small 8vo. 178pp . About fine in dust jacket. Arms trade, drug trade & the assassination of Olaf Palme figure prominently in this murder mystery by Mexico's hard boiled. $12.50

1750., Taibo, Paco Ignacio II. SOME CLOUDS. New York, Viking, 1992. 1st U.S. edition. 8vo. 163pp . Remainder mark, else about fine in dust jacket. A murder mystery thriller with Hector Belascoaran Shayne set in modern Mexico City & reflecting its labyrinth of corruption. $12.50

1794., Verduzco, Fray Jeronimo. MADRE DE AMERICA: POESIA. Puebla, Puebla de Nuestra Sen~ora, 1972. 1st edition. Large 8vo. 159pp . Lightly bumped at corners, very good; paperback. In Spanish. #306 of 1000 copies. Poems of and to the Virgin of Guadalupe, illustrated. $15.00

2414., Whiting, Charles. HEMINGWAY GOES TO WAR. Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1999. Reprint edition. 12mo. 292pp . Lightly creased spine, very good, paperback. Hemingway in WWII, nothing to do with bullfighting but a telling piece of the Hemingway story. $10.00

2241., Yanez, Adriana. EL MOVIMIENTO SURREALISTA. Mexico, Joaquin Moritz, 1979. 1st edition. 16mo. 95pp . Lightly bumped, soiled, very good; paperback. In Spanish. Bibliography. Historical essay on surrealism by a Mexican poet. $10.00

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