DescriptionMango Shoes and Other Stories. By Paul Drexel. [NY]: Galhatttan Press, no date [1996?]. First trade paperback printing; inscribed and signed. 8vo softcover. pp 118, illustrated. Inscribed in ink on title page: 4/4/96, R - An illuminating friend - Take Care, Paul Drexel Selected text from back cover: "Paul Drexel was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, where many of his stories are set. He has work as a news reporter, carpenter, truck driver, and bartender." Date of publication does not appear in work and is interpolated from the inscription and the ISBN. Several places in Hoboken are mentioned such as the Little League field, Our Lady of Grace Church, Pier D fire in 1974, Uptown Cafe, Stevens Institute of Technology, Bethlehem Steel Shipyard and a full story ("Cleopatra on the Delaware") about the closing of the Maxwell House coffee plant including final days and the last time the neon sign was lit. 8vo softcover