The Devil's Highway: A True Story [Signed]
by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0316746711
- ISBN 13
- 9780316746717
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Little, Brown and Company, [2004]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; xii,[4],239pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, final leaf of text creased, else a Very Good or better copy. Signed by the author on title page.
Account of twenty-six migrants crossing into the United States via the "Devil's Highway," the desert region of southern Arizona where the "days are so hot that dead bodies naturally mummify immediately" (upper jacket flap). Of the twenty-six men who attempted the journey, twelve survived.
Account of twenty-six migrants crossing into the United States via the "Devil's Highway," the desert region of southern Arizona where the "days are so hot that dead bodies naturally mummify immediately" (upper jacket flap). Of the twenty-six men who attempted the journey, twelve survived.
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- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29131
- Title
- The Devil's Highway: A True Story [Signed]
- Author
- Luis Alberto Urrea
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0316746711
- ISBN 13
- 9780316746717
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
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