NMLP P-002611 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

August Wilson · Plume (New American Library / Dutton) · 1985

No trade hardcover precedes the paperback original; a book-club hardcover, if encountered, is a later secondary issue. The first printing is identified by the full printing number line and the absence of a later-printing statement.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-002611 for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" by August Wilson (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-002611, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).