For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf [Signed]
- SIGNED
- New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1977
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1977. Third printing. Signed in green ink by Shange without inscription on title page, dated 2001. Price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Yellow and orange boards and blue cloth spine with gilt lettering. Slim Octavo (24.1cm). 64 pp.
Dust jacket rubbed with some damp-staining to corners and folds, small closed tears on upper front edge. Foot of spine bumped. Some rubbing to edges of boards. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Some rippling from damp on bottom corner of pages 44 through 46, text unaffected. Book is in very good condition in like jacket.
Shange's best-known work, a choreopoem (Shange's coinage) comprised of poetic monologues meant for accompaniment by dance and music. In 1977 the initial live production won an Obie Award for Distinguished Production and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, with original cast member Trazana Beverley winning for Best Featured Actress. The cast recording was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category the following year.
Dust jacket rubbed with some damp-staining to corners and folds, small closed tears on upper front edge. Foot of spine bumped. Some rubbing to edges of boards. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Some rippling from damp on bottom corner of pages 44 through 46, text unaffected. Book is in very good condition in like jacket.
Shange's best-known work, a choreopoem (Shange's coinage) comprised of poetic monologues meant for accompaniment by dance and music. In 1977 the initial live production won an Obie Award for Distinguished Production and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, with original cast member Trazana Beverley winning for Best Featured Actress. The cast recording was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album category the following year.