C-Train (Dream Boy's Story) and Thirteen Mexicans, Jimmy Santiago Baca, SIGNED 1st Ed., 2002, Near Fine

Baca, Jimmy Santiago. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

English, First Edition, Near Fine, SC, 8vo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2", 143 pp.

ISBN: 0802139477

First Edition, soft cover in black pictorial wraps, signed and dated by Jimmy Santiago Baca in pen to first blank page. Slight cocking to spine and light shelf wear. 143 pp. Jimmy Santiago Baca, a New Mexico-based poet, memoirist, and screenwriter, writes here in two parts, poems about the harsh reality of addiction. From the back panel: "C-Train is a heartstopping series of episodes from the life of Dream-boy, a young man who finds himself seduced, and later enslaved, by the siren song of cocaine...In Thirteen Mexicans, Baca writes of the Chicano community and the gulf between the American dream and American reality."