NMLP P-044997 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello · The Ecco Press (New York) · 1990

The true first is the US Ecco Press edition of 1990, a trade paperback original in glossy color pictorial wrappers (140 pp. plus a [19]-pp. appendix) — there was no hardcover state, so the wrappers ARE the first and only issue of the first edition

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044997 for "Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present" by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044997, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).