Ventura Press


The Plum Plum Pickers

The Plum Plum Pickers

Raymond Barrio

Sunnyvale, CA: Ventura Press, 1969. 202 pp. Approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/4". Illustrated pictorial with minor wear, signed/inscribed by the author "To Paul Sandstrom - a serious and imaginative artist. Ray Barrio. June 26/69." Slightly soiled first trade edition paperback, otherwise in very good condition.

A fictional novel describing the family of Manuel and Lupe Gutierrez, Mexican immigrants and their children, describing the horrendous conditions of prune pickers along the Monterey Peninsula and Santa Clara county in the late 60's.

Ventura Press
$ 40.00 USD