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Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black was first published by South End Press, Boston, as a 184-page book (paperback ISBN 0-89608-352-7); that is the true first. The first British edition is the paperback from Sheba Feminist Publishers, London, 1989, ISBN 0-907179-40-1. The National Library of Wales record describes it as a 20 cm paperback published in London by Sheba in 1989 and notes the earlier South End Press edition. Check for the Sheba imprint on the spine and title page. The Routledge reissues are later and are not firsts.
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Sheba Feminist Publishers, London, in 1989, in paperback.
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