Coleman, Wanda

MAMBO HIPS AND MAKE BELIEVE: A NOVEL

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. First Trade Edition. Item #5438

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.

Price: $40.00