Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Small tear on front joint, rear cover soiled, page ridges lightly foxed.
xii, 368 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, color illustrations mounted on front board, illustrated endpapers. Black & white photographs and maps.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Top page ridge lightly foxed, faint edge wear to jacket.
336 pp. Presents the story of Allende's ancestors and youth as it was written by her daughter's hospital bedside, reflecting the challenges and achievements of one family during a......
![Item #2200758 How Tia Lola Came To [Visit] Stay. Julia Alvarez](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2200758.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701116804)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. Jacket lightly toned.
147 pp. "Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about! Tía Lola, his quirky, carismática, and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more.....
New York: Dutton, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Promotional postcard laid in. Near fine. Jacket lightly toned.
155 pp. English text. "Characterized by respect for the past, delight in the sensory details of the present, and tentative but cherished hope for the future.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Negrin, Fabian. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page.
[40] pp. The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented.....
Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. Stapled Binding.
No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled.
50 pp. A history of bullfighting with illustrations.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1986. First Thus. Hard Cover.
First thus. A fine copy.
LXXXIV, 354 pp. "The text is the autobiography of George Ballentine, a Soctsman, who emigrates to America expecting to use his skill as a weaver. Unable to find work in New York City, he enlists in.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
xv, 287 pp. "Argues that scenes found on late classic sculpture represent cave rituals performed by the Mayan elite and discusses the Mayan world view and the role caves played in it."
Nebraska: Bison Books, 1992. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Spine head buped.
xxvii, 454 pp. "This new interpretation, based on original source material in the national archives, places the the 1846-48 conflict with Mexico in its proper context. The Mexican War was an unpopular one with American citizenry. It.....
![Item #2309731 Reconquest of Mexico: An Amiable Journey in Pursuit of Cortes [Cortez]. Matthew J....](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2309731.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644908098)
New York: Vanguard Press, 1974. Hard Cover.
Jacket spine faded, jacket clipped, front jacket flap creased. Ink price on front free endpaper.
252 pp. "Not being a Spanish explorer by birth or profession, he [Matthew J. Bruccoli] read what he could of Cortes in Mexico and, shod in a pair.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Faint crease.
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the landscape.....
New York: Riverhead Books, 2019. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. An exceptional copy.
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Driven to understand the hard realities of the.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed and dated "8/23/96" by author. A very nice copy.
223 pp. "Loverboys is the eagerly awaited new book by Ana Castillo, the acclaimed author of So Far from God: a collection of stories that display her.....
New York: Macmillan, 1944. Rivera, De. Reprint. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Boards lightly soiled.
vii, 338 pp. CONTENTS: Foreword; Mountain Village; Early Americans; Maize Civilization; The Six-Hundred; The Decline of Mexican Civilization I; The Decline of Mexican Civilization II; Machineless Men: Their Food and Drink; Machineless Men: Their Shelter, Clothing.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. General wear, pages lightly toned.
xii, 444, 3, [1] pp. Maps and engravings throughout. CONTENTS: En Route; From Buenos Ayres to Mendoza; Across the Andes; Agricultural Chili; Urban and Commercial Chili; The Nitrate Desert of Tarapaca; Impressions of.....
New York: Apple Soup / Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Ybanez, Terry. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page.
This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us. A Dragonfly Book in English and.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8th Printing. Trade Paperback.
8th printing. An exceptional copy.
391 pp. In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent center of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in its.....
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket lightly toned.
xviii, 533 pp. "Uses archaeological records and documentary sources to chronicle the history of the Mesoamerican culture from the fall of Teotihuacan to the rise and collapse of Tula."
North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "To Michael, Thanks so much for reading! With much love," Jacket spine base bumped.
321 pp. "While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Diaz found.....
![Item #2315799 La Planteria en el Peru: Dos Mil Anos de Arte e Historia [SPANISH TEXT]. Jose...](https://yesterdaysmuse.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2315799.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1644908238)
Lima, Peru: Bancosur, 1996. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges rubbed, two half-inch tears to rear jacket panel. Endpapers lightly rubbed.
357 pp. Spanish text. "Nacio en Barranco, Lima en 1932, Estudio en la Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, donde se graduo de Bachiller en Humanidades (1953) y Doctor en Historia y......
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed, tear along front jacket joint.
288 pp. "An account of the expedition that probed the depths of the mysterious sacred well of Chichén Itzá, in Yucatan, in search of keys to the.....
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Library, 1979. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback.
Sixth printing. Ink name on front flyleaf.
xviii, 362 pp. In order to analyze Brazil's recent accumulation of capital in the light of its continued dependence, Peter Evans focuses on the relationships among multinational corporations, local private entrepreneurs, and.....
New York/Chicago/London: F. Tennyson Neely Publisher, 1898. Small Hard Cover.
Binder's copy. Text block loose from binding, board edges rubbed, bottom edge stained.
Unpaginated. Includes black-and-white photographs of heroes, battles, camps, Dewey Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico. These view of Cuba and the Military Camps are from the famous collection secured.....
Salem, Virginia: Trust Publisher, 2008. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "Karen: Thank you for your support--God bless." A fine copy.
xii, 215 pp. The Lambi's Call is a love story between the author and the people of this rural part of.....
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1991. Fash, Barbara W. Large Hardcover.
A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
192 pp. Drawings by Barbara W. Fash. Includes 120 illustrations, 11 in color. "Traces the history of the city of Copan, and describes how new discoveries are shedding light on.....