2 Suzan-Lori Parks first editions are documented on this shelf, from The America Play (1995) to Topdog/Underdog (2001). Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Suzan-Lori Parks title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- The America Play — 1995 · Theatre Communications Group'The America Play and Other Works' (TCG, 1995, ISBN 1-55936-092-5 / 9781559360920), trade paperback original collecting The America Play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and other plays and essays ('Possession,' 'from Elements of Style,' 'An Equation for Black People Onstage'). First printing without a later-printing line. The TCG 1995 collection is the first book appearance of these early Parks works; softcover original, no hardcover first. No book-club issue; later printings differ by an added number line.
- Topdog/Underdog — 2001 · Theatre Communications GroupTCG edition, 2001 (ISBN 1-55936-201-4 / 9781559362016), trade paperback original. First printing states 'First Edition' and lacks a later-printing line on the copyright page. Issued in wrappers; no trade hardcover. The US TCG 2001 wrappers is the true first (2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama). A UK Methuen edition followed. This is a softcover-original; there is no hardcover first. Later TCG printings (post-Pulitzer, 2002 onward) add 'Pulitzer Prize Winner' banners and/or number lines and are not firsts.
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