[Rarebooks] FS: Ntozake Shange's first book, first edition, first issue

Bob Petrilla petrillabooks at gmail.com
Fri Dec 13 08:45:46 EST 2013


Shange, Ntozake. FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE / WHEN THE
RAINBOW IS ENUF: Drawings by Wopo Holup. San Lorenzo, CA: Shameless Hussy
Press, (1975). First Edition. ISBN: 0915288133. (27)pp; two drawings in
purple ink, plus cover drawing. Bound in red wrappers; pink stain from
cover to recto of first leaf (dedication page), gift inscription dated
7/76, otherwise clean and sound. 8.5" x 5.5"
First issue of the author's first book, her name misspelled with an "s"
rather than a "z" on the front cover, and ninety-five-cent printed price.
[Picture on request.]   $125.00


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