Mexico, D.F: Ediciones J Velazquez de Leon, 1946. First edition. Paperback. 96 p., wrps. (covers stained, spine reinforced with tape, lower spine missing paper). Detailed instructions for the ingredients, preparation and creation of tamales and atole, a porridge-like drink served warm. Three copies on worldcat. More
Xalapa, Veracruz: Universidad Veracruzana (Serie: Ficción), 2013. First edition. Paperback. 216p., indices, wrps. A book that brings together the work of Manuel Maples Arce, one of the most representative poets of Estridentismo. Ed. Veracruzana University. More
Ciudad de México: Estudio Ahuehuete. Oficio de Libros, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 207p., photos, indices, glossary, wrps. The publication contains a collaboration of different cultural agents whose objective is to show certain genealogies that allow us to understand the emergence of collaborative art in our context based on the analysis..... More
Puebla: Gobierno de Puebla, Secretaría de Cultura, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 352p., color plates, indices, wrps. A heavy and glossy book made up of dozens of close-ups and details of balconies, knockers, blacksmith shops, busts, fountains and other architectural and ornamental elements, whether made of stone, wood or iron, show..... More
Ciudad de México: Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Educacion y Cultura, Asesoría y Promoción, 2020. First edition. Paperback. 437p., color plates, photos, illus, glossary, indices, wrps. "Cocinar en la Puebla del Siglo XIX" is an exceptional document that outlines an important stage in the history of cooking in Puebla and..... More
Ciudad de Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, (La Ciencia para Todos, 256), 2022. First edition. Paperback. 159p., facsimiles, tables, graphics, bibl., indices, wrps. What are the causes of obesity? Why have policies related to the prevention of this epidemic not been successful? Thoughtful and critical, Salvador Camacho takes on the..... More
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1964. Paperback. 215p., indices, wrps. The figure of Cortés today awakens in Mexico the same passions as when he lived, reading this pleasant book we realize that he wants to remind us that Don Hernando has not died completely. His worst opponents - they hate him -..... More
Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Lecturas Mexicanas. 61), 1984. First edition. Paperback. 248p., facsimiles, indices, wrps. Aurelio de los Reyes offers us here an entertaining and colorful testimony of the behavior of Porfirian society in the face of that attractive and surprising invention that came to revolutionize the media at..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 97p., maps, bibl., indices, wrps. This book offers a chronological and critical description of Cotaxtla, a municipality located in the central area of the state of Veracruz, in the region known as the Sotavento plains. Four oil fields and a synthetic fiber industry..... More
México: El Colegio de México, 1979. Paperback. 178p., photos, illus., facsimiles, bibl., indices, wrps. The government of Venustiano Carranza from his departure from the port of Veracruz until the proclamation of the Constitution of 1917, in which the revolutionary ideals were shaped; the analysis of the main problems that caused..... More
México: El Colegio de Mexico, 1977. First edition. Paperback. 371p., photos, illus., facsimiles, tables, bibl., indices, wrps. The historical and social field covered in these pages is wide and deep. In addition to focusing here, with rigor and precision, on the main actors and stages of the armed struggle that..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Centro de Investigaciones Lingüístico -Literarias Institito de Investigaciones Humanísticas, 20), 1985. First edition. Paperback. 139p., bibl., indices, wrps. From among the vast work of Baroja, Manuel Sol studies the narrative structure and rhetoric of Camino de perfection, according to the following treatment: he approaches the structure of..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Serie: Humanidades), 1980. Second edition. Paperback. 265p., indices, wrps. This book has been prefaced by the eminent philosopher José Gaos, who writes: “... the writings and speeches of Fernando Salmerón, whose simple nobility translates without packaging, before with faithful attachment, the mental lucidity not obscured in a...... More
México: Cuarto Creciente, Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, Grupo Editorial Planeta, 1991. Later printing. Paperback. 382p., indices, wrps. Equal parts novel, testimony and chronicle, Los Periodistas is the passionate account of the events that would give rise to a new era of journalism in Mexico: the coup by the government of Luis..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana, 1983. First edition. Paperback. 277p., wrps. It is a novel built from the arrival of a group of refugees to the port of Veracruz, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Through this matter, more than sixty years of private, particular, anonymous stories are recovered, framed..... More
Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica (Colección Popular, 107), 1976. Fourth reprint. Paperback. 191p., wrps. El laberinto de la soledad se ha constituido sin lugar a dudas en paradigma de discusión de los rasgos culturales y afectivos que caracterizan al ser mexicano y su afán por identificarse en el curso de..... More
México: Secretaría de Educación Pública / Asociación Nacional de Libreros, Día del Libro, 1986. Paperback. 149p., wrps. More
México: Espasa-Calpe, (Colección Austral, 1080), 1965. Third edition. Paperback. 145p., indices, wrps. Samuel Ramos, an illustrious Mexican man of letters, author of important philosophical works, has cemented his reputation as a philosopher, essayist and critic. He analyzes the various factors that hindered the advent of that culture, such as self-denigration..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Colección Rescate, 1), 1984. First edition. Paperback. 131p., illus., indices, wrps. As a writer, Payno cultivated almost all genres: political, philological, historical essay, tax studies; stories, travel narratives, etc., although his literary titles are limited to the novel. He published El fistol del diablo, the first extensive..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Colección: Seminario de Historia), 1987. First edition. Paperback. 99p., indices, wrps. This research is the first of its kind. Its content covers from Independence to the year 1848; from the Reformation to the year 1879; the period of government of General Juan de la Luz Enríquez and..... More
Xalapa: Universidad Veracruzana (Colección Rescate, 17), 1986. First edition. Paperback. 94p., maps, illus., wrps. "Panchito Chapopote", a novel by Xavier Icaza, is not only considered one of the first works of fiction to deal with the subject of oil, it is also recognized for its originality and humor; is the..... More
Mexico: Editorial Joaquín Mortiz, 1973. First edition. Paperback. 165p., wrps. This novel is many stories with a single origin, Catholicism and religious fervor; the secular authorities, accused of Jacobinism, find themselves repudiated by men and women governed by fear of hell, God and life. Opposed to ecclesiastical anti-communism was a...... More
México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Colección Letras Mexicanas, 42), 1984. Third edition. Hardcover. 85p., indices, wrps. Octavio Paz (1914-1998) offers in The Violent Station a work that belongs to one of the best creative stages. This book collects the poems: "Hymn among ruins", "Masks of the dawn", "Fountain", "Night review"..... More
México: ESPIGA, Editorial Seneca, 1942. Paperback. 195p., wrps. "Las Paredes Oyen" is an expression that came out of France in the second half od the 16th century. According to the stories of history, Catherine de Medici had constructed acoustic conductors in the walls of her palaces in order to listen..... More
México: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Letras Mexicanas), 1966. Second edition. Hardcover. 1096p., bibl., wrps. boards (dj browned and chipped, 2 x 3 inch piece missing rear ). The fine pen of Villaurrutia (1903-1950), a poet, before anything else, also dealt with literary criticism, storytelling and dramaturgy. His verses are highly..... More
