NMLP P-039214 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Ask the Dust

John Fante · Stackpole Sons, New York · 1939

True first: Stackpole Sons, New York, 1939, 235 pp., octavo, bound in publisher's oatmeal canvas cloth stamped at spine and front cover (stamping is described by dealers as brown and as maroon — descriptions of the same binding differ, so do not treat either colour term as a state point)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-039214 for "Ask the Dust" by John Fante (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-039214, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).