Famous Negro Music Makers
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955. 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, index, 179p. Original blue cloth. 21cm. Backstrip faded. Covers dull and lightly spotted. No Jacket. More
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Fine Clothes to the Jew
NY: Knopf, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. 89p. Original light pastel striped boards backed in cloth. dj. 19cm. Jacket has moderate soiling and is chpped and rather worn along edges and folds. Spine lettering still legible. Former owners' name on front free endpaper. The binding is one of about three variants..... More
Fine Clothes to the Jew
NY: Knopf, 1927. 1st ed. Hardcover. 89p. Original light pastel striped boards backed in black cloth. No jacket. 19cm. Covers scuffing and light fading. Extremities rubbed. Lettering on backstrip now faint but still readable. Unusual bookplate. No jacket.. The binding is one of about three variants, with no established priority..... More
Limitations of Life
n.p. n.d. Paperback. Carbon copy of a three-page typescript. 28cm. Stapled three times along top. This play is a simple role reversal involving an African American couple and their white maid. "Black playwrights" by Hatch and Abdullah dates this play as 1938 and notes that it was performed by the..... More
Simpel Spricht Sich Aus
Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1960. 1st German ed. Hardcover. illustrations, folding map, 277p. dj. 19cm. Jacket in pieces, missing most of backstrip and heavily chipped on front and back panels. German text. INSCRIBED on endpaper to his longtime friend and early supporter in his characteristic in green ink ("For Amy Spingarn, Simple..... More
Simple Stakes a Claim
New York: Rinehart, (c. 1957). 1st ed. Hardcover. 191p. Original boards. 19cm. No Jacket. INSCRIBED in his familiar green ink by Hughes ("Especially for Irving Castle -- with sincerest thanks for "Simply Heavenly" on Broadway"). More
Simple Takes A Wife
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. 1st ed. Hardcover. ix, 240p. Original laminated pictorial boards. 20cm. Text moderately browned. No jacket (as issued). His second book of short stories featuring Jesse B. Semple. Nice copies have become rather scarce, mostly because the book seems designed to self destruct -- the..... More
The Ways of White Folks
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. 1st ed. Hardcover. 248p. Original orange cloth, decorated and lettered in black. dj. 20 cm. Jacket has: (1) edge-wear and a couple of modest chips; (2) fading of upper portion of backstrip panel; (3) a sticker with library call number held on with a...... More
The Sweet Flypaper of Life
New York: Simon and Schuster, (c. 1955). 1st ed. Hardcover. photos, 98p. dj. Original black cloth. 18cm. Cellophane tape reinforcement on front of jacket on and around the backstrip and at base of front panel. Jacket is also edgeworn and has some staining and soil. INSCRIBED to R. Gordon Wasson..... More
Anthologie Africaine et Malgache
Paris: Seghors, (1966). Hardcover. 312p. dj. 21cm. Text moderately browned. French text. First published in 1962. More
Fine Clothes to the Jew
New York: Knopf, 1929. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. 89p. Original purple cloth. 19cm. Backstrip and outer portions of front and back covers faded. No jacket. His second book (poetry). The title was controversial. More
Shakespeare in Harlem
New York: Knopf, 1945. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. frontis, ills, 124p. Original black boards with orange cloth backstrip. No dj. 21cm. INSCRIBED in black ink by Hughes on front free endpaper ("To Joan Vosburgh, Sincerely, Langston Hughes"). Poetry. More
Simple Stakes a Claim
New York: Rinehart, (c. 1957). 1st ed. Hardcover. 191p. dj. 19cm. Jacket somewhat worn. Text browned (printed on high acid paper). More
Simple Takes a Wife
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. 1st ed. Hardcover. ix, 240p. Glossy laminated pictorial boards. 20cm. Text browned but not badly. Covers a bit dull as if the laminate had become a bit opaque and there are a few tiny brown spots. No jacket as issued. Short stories featuring Mr..... More
Hei ren shi xuan
Beijing: Zuo jia chu ban she, 1957. Paperback. [2], 102p. Softcover in original wrapper. 18 cm. Text moderately browned. Modest rippling along left side. Some adhesion along inner margin on last leaf. INSCRIBED in Chinese on the title-page by the translator. Chinese text. The illustration on the front cover is..... More
Plays by Langston Hughes
[1945?]. Paperback. Two-page carbon copy of a listing of plays written by Hughes. 28cm. Paper-clipped at top. Some soiling and wear. Unknown compiler. Lists 6 full-length plays, 3 one act plays, 2 opera librettos, 6 radio scripts, and 2 collaboration scripts. Latest radio script listed is for Pvt. Jim Crow..... More
Schwarzer Orpheus: modern dichtung afrikanischer volker beider Hemispharen
Munchen: Hanser, (c. 1954). 1st ed. Hardcover. 193p. dj. 21cm. Jacket, which is worn and also split apart at backstrip and flaps, has been neatly reassembled under protective cover. Langston Hughes SIGNED one of his poems which appears at page 145 and also INSCRIBED this copy to Amy Spingarn ("Happiest..... More
Four Lincoln University Poets: Waring Cuney, William Allyn Hill, Edward Silvera, Langston Hughes
[Lincoln University, Pa.]: [1930]. Paperback. 16p. Blue wrapper. 23cm. Minor cover fading along fold. Separately published pamphlet -- we have also had this as an issue of the Lincoln University Herald. More
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18th Anniversary October 7, 1960. [cover title]
New York: 1960. Paperback. Single light green sheet mimeoed on one side and folded to make a four-page program. 14cm. Hughes' name underlined in red pencil in the program. SIGNED on front by Hughes in green ink. Hughes is listed in this Harlem church's program for "Poems & Remarks." More
Masters of the Dew
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (c. 1947). 1st ed. Hardcover. x, 180p. Original blue cloth. 19cm. Backstrip faded. Corners bumped. Small brown stain on a few pages. No Jacket. INSCRIBED by Hughes to Amy Spingarn ("For Amy Spingarn, Sincerely, Langston New York, June, 1947"). An English translation of Roumain's posthumously-published..... More
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