About this title: From its inception in 1974 to its critical success on Broadway, this work has excited and inspired audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it means to be of color and female in the 20th century. Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Son
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780026098403ISBN:0026098407
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 64 p. Audience: General/trade. softcover, light edge wear to covers, light crease to fr cov, some hi-lighting. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780684843261ISBN:0684843269
Description: Good. I am a soft cover book that you will find internally to be free of any form of marking, soiling or previously dog eared pages with all of my pages remaining crisp and bright with a binding which remains snug and spine that is undamaged. Exteriorly you will find that my soft covers are slightly tired showing a moderate reduction to their original new glossy luster and my free edges showing moderate to light edge wear, but no creasing. I make for a very clean reading copy. The choice of ... read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co, New York
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780026098403ISBN:0026098407
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. DJ is worn with one small tear. Some bumping at corners. Pages are clean with tight binding. 51 p. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Poetry [c.1997], [New York]
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780684843261ISBN:0684843269
Description: Fair. Later [2nd] printing thus. Obie Award winner. "Here is the complete text, with stage directions, of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world". Pictorial wrappers, 64 pages. Otherwise VG+ or better copy marred by previous owner's underlining/annotations throughout the book. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Son
Date Published: 1977-05-01
ISBN-13:9780026098403ISBN:0026098407
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. *** Hardcover in Very Good/Very Good condition. Binding tight, pages clean. No previous owner names. Some edgewear. *** read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner's, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780026098403ISBN:0026098407
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 3rd printing trade hard cover with dust jacket, NF/VG. Neatly inked gift notation on third endpaper. Otherwise unmarked, crisp clean copy. Jacket is price clipped with a vertical crease to front flap. New mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan 1977 first printing with 64 pages
Description: Fair in a poor dust wrapper. The dust wrapper has a 3 inch slit on the top of the back next to the spine. This same slit also cuts the cloth of the book as well. read more
"I had the incredible fortune to see this play off Broadway in the mid-seventies. Recently, a friend sent me the "Someone Almost Walked Off Wid Alla My Stuff" excerpt and prompted me to read it again. This is a work "For Colored Girls" but I don't know a woman my age who doesn't feel almost every word."
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