MySQL slow query

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Published on 2010-04-27T16:37:51Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 16:53 UTC
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SELECT
  items.item_id, items.category_id, items.title, items.description, items.quality,
  items.type, items.status, items.price, items.posted, items.modified,
  zip_code.state_prefix, zip_code.city, books.isbn13, books.isbn10, books.authors,
  books.publisher
FROM
(
  (
    items
    LEFT JOIN bookitems ON items.item_id = bookitems.item_id
  )
  LEFT JOIN books ON books.isbn13 = bookitems.isbn13
)
LEFT JOIN zip_code ON zip_code.zip_code = items.item_zip
WHERE items.rid = $rid`

I am running this query to get the list of a user's items and their location. The zip_code table has over 40k records and this might be the issue. It currently takes up to 15 seconds to return a list of about 20 items! What can I do to make this query more efficient?

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