Betsey Brown: A Novel [Signed]

London: Methuen, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. London: Methuen, 1985. First British Edition. Octavo (22.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with £9.50 price intact; boards in bronze cloth with gilt lettering to spine; 205pp. Jacket clean and crisp, with one long, thin run to laminate on rear panel near spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Small spot of sticker residue on front pastedown. Pages a touch toned but unmarked. Binding is sound.

Signed by the author on full title without inscription, dated 9 May 1990 in Washington, DC. Shange's novel about an African-American girl coming of age while navigating the first wave of school integration in 1959 St. Louis.