NMLP P-038577 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
Ntozake Shange · Shameless Hussy Press, San Lorenzo, California · 1975
A Literary Guild book-club edition of the Macmillan text followed in October 1977 and is the reprint most often mistaken for the Macmillan first; check for the usual club tells (absence of a price at the jacket flap, blind-stamp or dot to the rear board, lighter bulk and lower-grade boards). No book-club or reprint issue exists of the 1975 Shameless Hussy chapbook itself.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038577 for "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" by Ntozake Shange (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038577, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).