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Nappy Edges
by Shange, Ntozake
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0312559054
- ISBN 13
- 9780312559052
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: St Martin's Press, 1978 First printing of the first edition, first state: publisher's review copy with promotional material, two errata slips, and Jiri Weiss' black-and-white photograph of the author that was used for the jacket bio laid-in.
Signed by Ntozake Shange directly on the title-page and directly on her black-and-white photograph; additionally, Shange corrected the error on the dedication page, adding the following commentary: "typesetters resist / modernization of / language;" Shange also corrected the error on p.98 along with her initials. Scarce thus.
Book with a light crimp to front corner boards and the cloth overlay at spine ends softly crimped, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear/crease to bottom front cover and light wear to extremities, else fine.
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- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022797
- Title
- Nappy Edges
- Author
- Shange, Ntozake
- Illustrator
- Jiri Weiss (Author's Photo); Deborah Daly (Jacket Design); Felix de Rooy (Fontispiece/Jacket Art); Andy Capenter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312559054
- ISBN 13
- 9780312559052
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Poetry, African-American, Black Literature, Black Womanhood, Afro-American, Women Writers, Review Copy.
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Idler Fine Books
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Las Vegas , Nevada
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- Fine
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- Spine
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