"Melissa&Smith" Special Limited Edition Chapbook (copy 53 out of limited edition of 300)
Item Number: 163
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-to-zok-ee Shan-gay, from Xhosa, a Zulu dialect) declares herself a poet first and playwright second.
Shange is best known for her chorepoem, For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf, which won several awards including an Obie Award and Outer Circle Award in addition to Tony Award nominations in 1977.
Melissa & Smith is Shange's first published work. This is a first edition chapbook (#50 of 300) handbound from Allan Kornblum's Toothpaste Press, 1976.
Special Instructions
Copies #25 to #75 have been donated to Mixed Blood by the author.
Free delivery within 25 miles of the Twin Cities metro area. Deliveries outside of the metro area will result in additional shipping costs to be calculated after close of auction.