Tqs Publications Berkeley (7 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 174 Pages. Book has marks and the interior text pages are near flawless. A native of New Mexico. enjoys an international reputation as an author. Among his writings is the best-selling novel Bless Me Ultima as well as essays. articles. reviews and short stories. More recently. the creative impulse has led Mr. Anaya into television writing with a screenplay. as well as a fun-length drama.· He has lectured at many universities. By Presidential invitation, he read from his works at the White House during the National Salute to American Poets and Writers in 1980. Contents in Ten Stories: The Silence of the Llano, The Road to Platero, The Place of the Swallows, Salomon's Story, The Apple Orchard, The Christmas Play, EI Velorio, A Story, B. Traven is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca, and The Village Which the Gods Painted Yellow.…

Paperback. 144p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Paperback. 256p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed soft-cover first edition with author's photo on cover has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Inscribed legibly and diagonally on flyleaf, 'For [name] -- A loyal fan from the past -- Gratefully Al Martinez 6/13/03'. Rectangle of flyleaf slightly discolored from folded Al Martinez newspaper column, also signed.…

Paperback. 236p., very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Autobiography of the Mexico-born California professor who founded Quinto del Sol.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fourth Printing. 248 pages. January 1975 Edition. English edition however the 22 chapters are numbered in Spanish. Cover price $3.75. Some cover edge and spine wear which allows some white to show through the black covers. Owner's label and initial on front endpaper. Tight, square book. Anaya was the winner of the Premio Quinto Sol national Chicano literary award and is one of today's foremost Hispanic writers. A classic tale of Northern New Mexico family life. Bless Me, Ultima reflects the deep love and respect with which the author has approached the people about who he writes. He shares and respects the collective intellectual resorvoir that is manifest in his knowledge of a people and their relationships to the cosmos and its forces. It is only with this deep respect for a people that Anaya has been able to create in literary form a person such as the Curandera Ultima, la Grande. Anaya is the winner of the Presidential Medal for the Arts in 2002. About writing this novel the author said writing is not easy. It is a lonely and oftentimes unappreciated endeavor. He is completely self-taught having never taken a writing course. He says you just have to sit down and write, wirte, write, and write . hasta que te lleva la madre, y las almorranas. Presently (1972) he is teaching in the Albuquerque Public Schools. Martinez, Dennis - (illustrator).…

272p., illus., 8.5x11 inches, revised and expanded second edition, very good paperback. Mexican and Mexican American history, with considerable material on the farmworkers, by the Los Angeles educator.