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The Importance of a Piece of Paper: Stories
by Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0802117651
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117656
- Seller
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Datil, New Mexico, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Grove Press, 2004. Hardcover, 225 pages. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. First edition, inscribed and signed by author. Size 8.5"x5.75". "In his first foray into short fiction, award-winning poet and memoirist Jimmy Santiago Baca maps the territory where old-world traditions contend with new-world ambitions and disenfranchised characters struggle to make something of themselves in the world while somehow keeping their souls intact." Book and dust jacket have light shelfwear and bumps on top front corners, else Fine condition, clean and unmarked.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florida Mountain Book Co. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007811
- Title
- The Importance of a Piece of Paper: Stories
- Author
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802117651
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117656
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- LITERATURE SOUTHWEST FICTION HISPANIC AMERICAN NEW MEXICO SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS
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Terms of Sale
Florida Mountain Book Co.
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About the Seller
Florida Mountain Book Co.
Biblio member since 2004
Datil, New Mexico
About Florida Mountain Book Co.
The Florida Mountains are located in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Parsons family, proprietors of Florida Mountain Book Company, have been in the book business since 1996. Formerly the owners & operators of Readers' Cove Bookstore in Deming, New Mexico, beginning in May of 2012, we are now exclusively based on the internet.
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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