LACASA & Zimmerman Wholesale
- Signed copies of books written or ediited by Marc Zimmerman are available for purchase directly from the author’s warehoused collection at mzimmerman1939@gmail.com at a 30% discount of Amazon retail prices, no shipping/handling fees required.
- AMAZON PRIME may often ship free. If the book is not available in Zimmerman’s warehouse collection, he will order it from AMAZON or elsewhere and you will receive the book but it won’t be signed since it will ship directly from the supplier.
- Select Illusions of Memory and U.S./Chicago Latino series, plus other books may be available directly from LACASA. Order on this webpage (LINK) or at mzimmerman1939@gmail.com. See special prices for bundled groups of books listed below.
- Payment via Paypal or Zelle should be made out to, or you may send a check or money order to mzimmerman1939@gmail.com.
- LACASA Chicago Books accepts submissions for publication.
- Use the contact form below for all inquiries. Be sure to specify title(s) in your message. If you prefer, you can write Marc directly at mzimmerman1939@gmail.com.
Contact Lacasa Chicago
To make submission inquiries, request readings, lectures and other personal appearances or simply to write to Marc Zimmerman, please use the contact form.
Buy discounted author-signed first edition copies of your choice of LACASA’s recent books at 25% off Amazon.com retail prices, plus free s.h. Or, for best prices, buy books in different “bundles” as presented below:
I. Illusions of Memory Autofiction Series Bargains from the LACASA Chicago Warehouse.
Cycle I Thematic Books. All 5 in English or alternative trans./version for $50\ plus $10 for each additional book in the bundle

The Short of it All &/or Spanish version.: Cuán alta la luna
The Italian Daze
Sandino on the Border &/or Spanish trans: Sandino en la frontera
Martín and Marvin &/or Spanish trans. Martín y Marvin
A Mexican Maze without Borders
Cycle II Books (1939-1981). All 5 for $70, $80 for all 6 —includes s/h

Genesis:
Two Ways West (Exodus)
No Light from Heaven
Black, Brown and White on the Border &/or Spanish trans. of selected stories: Amores fronterizos.
Managua, Mon Amour (Nevermore)
Books in Spanish (All 4 for $50—includes s/h)

Cuán alta la luna (The Short of it all trans.)
Sandino en la frontera
Martín y Marvin
Amores fronterizos (trans. of stories from Lines on the Border, or Black, Brown and White on the Border)
Border Stories (All 3 for $35—includes s/h)

Lines on the Border
Sandino on the Border
A Mexican Maze without Borders
Out of Print collector's items: signed copies available only through the author (All 3 for $35, plus $10 for Amores—includes s/h)

Stores of Winter—3 stories republished in Genesis, 2 in No Light from Heaven and 1 in Two Ways West)
Lines on the Border—most of the Latino-centered stories found now in Black, Brown and White on the Border &/or Spanish trans. of selected stories: Amores fronterizos
La Dolce Vita on the Northern Side. African-American and other San Diego stories
Make your own Bundle: Chose any 5 books of the above for $60, $10 more for each additional—includes s/h)
II. U.S. and Chicago Latino Books
U.S. and Chicago Latino Literature. (any 3 for $50, all 4 for $65—includes s/h)

Hugo Martínez-Serros, The Brothers Durán of Mexican South Chicago: A Novel
Joél Méndez, 40 Poems for City Living
Irma Olmedo . Tales from the Barrio and Beyond
Irma Olmedo, Cuentos del Barrio y Más Allá
U.S. and Chicago Latino Historical Cultural Studies (any 4 for $80—all 5 for $100

MZ, Defending their own in the Cold. The Cultural Turns of U.S. Puerto Ricans
MZ, The Rise of Mexican and Chicano Literature in Chicago
MZ, ed. The Mexican Experience in Chicago
Antonio Delgado, Taking off in the City
MZ, ed. An Album for José González.