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NY: Simon & Schuster, 1953. Pictorial boards. Paper heavily browned with age, < 1" tear in spine/front cover joint, else clean tight copy: VG-/no dj. 8vo. 1st printing [of 1st edition] so stated
Simple Takes a Wife by Hughes, Langston - 1953
by Hughes, Langston
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Simple Takes a Wife
by Hughes, Langston
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. INSCRIBED by Hughes in the year of publication: "For My Next Door Neighbor, Staples, who heard this book being written." April 1953. A lovely, tender inscription. Original pictorial boards, a bit fragile, as usual, with cheap paper browned as always.
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Sanctuary Books
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- Book Condition Used - Very Good
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- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1953
- Keywords Literature & Classics
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Simple Takes a Wife
by Hughes, Langston
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Paper heavily browned with age, < 1" tear in spine/front cover joint, else clean tight copy: VG-/no dj
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- Hardcover
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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SIMPLE TAKES A WIFE
by HUGHES,Langston
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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NY: Simon Schuster, 1953. First edition. 8vo,Pp.240. Glazed boards, leaves lifghtly browned. A novel of the Harlem "Rooming-House Set
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Simple Takes a Wife.
by HUGHES, Langston
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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Victor Gollancz, London., 1954. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp ix, 240. The publisher's copy, with "Archive Copy" rubber-stamped on the title-page. Spine very slightly bumped at head and tail, otherwise fine in near-fine slightly marked dustwrapper slightly creased at head and tail of spine.
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Simple Takes A Wife
by Hughes, Langston
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- Hardcover
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Neenah, Wisconsin, United States
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$350.00
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 193. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/None. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Laminated pictorial boards - fading to the titles and boards, shelf wear. Issued without dust jacket, pages browned as usual with this particular book, printed on highly acidic paper. Publisher's post card laid-in. Overall a nice copy of this title.
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Simple Takes A Wife
by Hughes, Langston
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, United States
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$500.00
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Simon and Schuster . Stated First Printing. Uniform age toning. No DJ as issued. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1953.
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Simple Takes a Wife
by Hughes, Langston
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- near fine
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- First British Edition
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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$3,500.00
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London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1954. First British Edition. Near Fine. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's drab wraps with typed paper title label adhered to upper wrap with "uncorrected" rubber-stamped to front wrap and title page. Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover. Near Fine with lean to binding, light toning and wear. Pages tanned and several hinges exposed throughout. Hughes' breakthrough second work in his popular series, rare in this format.
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