MAMBO HIPS AND MAKE BELIEVE: A NOVEL
by Coleman, Wanda
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- Hardcover
- first
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First Trade Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 300 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and brown cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 404,[4]pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. First novel by the African American poet from Watts, California - known as "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles." Centered around the friendship between two women -- one from the black ghetto in L.A., and one from its white middle-class suburbs, both of whom are working odd jobs to make ends meet.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5438
- Title
- MAMBO HIPS AND MAKE BELIEVE: A NOVEL
- Author
- Coleman, Wanda
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa
- Date Published
- 1999
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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