2 Rudolfo Anaya first editions are documented on this shelf, from Bless Me, Ultima first (1972) to Heart of Aztlan (1976) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Rudolfo Anaya title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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Bless Me, Ultima first — 1972 · Quinto SolFirst edition, first printing, Quinto Sol Publications, Berkeley, California, June 1972. Issued simultaneously in a small cloth (hardcover) issue and the more common pictorial card-wrappers issue; both are true firsts of the same first printing. The cloth issue is bound in black boards with the spine lettered in silver; the wrappers issue is in pictorial card covers reproducing the Ultima cover art. Interior…. The Quinto Sol Berkeley 1972 issue is the true first. Because the cloth and wrappers issues were produced simultaneously from the same first printing, neither has clear bibliographic precedence over the other; both are first-edition, first-printing. Book-club editions and later commercial reprints (including the Warner and subsequent trade paperbacks) reset the text and are not the first edition. The press that created the Chicano literary canon; all four Premio Quinto Sol winners are now deceased, so their signature pools are closed. Confirm the 1972 Quinto Sol imprint and the cloth-vs-wrappers points above rather than relying on the presence of the title alone.
Heart of Aztlan — 1976 · Editorial Justa PublicationsEditorial Justa Publications, Inc., Berkeley, California, 1976; 209 pp. Anaya's second novel (following Bless Me, Ultima). Issued both in a scarce red-cloth hardcover (gilt lettering on spine and front board, largely for library distribution) and in pictorial card wrappers. Confirm the 1976 first-printing state on the copyright page. Editorial Justa 1976 is the true first, in both the hardcover (scarcer) and wrappered issues. Later reprints (e.g., University of New Mexico Press) are 'first thus.'. No book club issue. Distinguish later editions by publisher imprint and added printing lines.

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