Shakespeare in Harlem by Hughes, Langston - 1947

Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Alfred A. Knopf; New York, 1942. Hardcover. First Edition. A Good, black cloth boards and orange cloth spine with purple lettering on front board and black lettering on spine, binding intact, some handling/scuffing to boards, discoloration/sunning to spine, age toning to pages, top text block edge stained orange, bit of crimping to spine edges, scattered foxing to text block edges and pastedowns/endpapers, previous owner handwritten name in ink front free endpaper else unmarked, mild musty odor, without Dust Wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches]. 124pp., drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good in somewhat scuffed two-toned cloth; missing the dust jacket; corners, top and bottom of spine bumped; dampstaining to botton inch and a half of spine; a few words written on rear pastedown; foxed . 8.5 x 6 x .65 inches. First Edition, First Printing Signed and inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper: ‘To Yvettte--- with the regards of--- Langston Hughes’ with ‘New York, July 31, 1942’ written in his hand at the bottom of the page; drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. With drawings by E. McNight Kauffer. Octavo. 124pp. Near fine with light toning at the spine and corner of front fly clipped probably to remove an owner name in about good dust jacket split at the front spine fold, toning and moderate edgewear, including chips and creases.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First Edition, Third Printing. Cloth. Very good/very good. Signed first edition of Shakespeare in Harlem by Langston Hughes.. Octavo, xii, 124pp. Black and yellow cloth, title in purple on front cover and spine. Red topstain. Stated "Third Printing, October 1947" on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of sunning to spine, rubbed corners, toning to endpapers. Complete with frontis and 12 full-page illustrations by E.McKnight Kauffer. In the publisher's dust jacket, $3.00 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, sunning to spine, a few small stains to rear panel, a very good example. (Blockson 6355) Signed by Hughes on the front free endpaper: "For Elizabeth ---, Sincerely, Langston Hughes / June 3, 1949.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. An attractive copy of Hughes's fourth full collection of poetry, a collaborative work with artist and graphic designer E. McKnight Kauffer. In his introduction, Hughes describes the collection as "a book of light verse. Afro-Americana in the blues mood. Poems syncopated and variegated in the colors of Harlem, Beale Street, West Dallas, and Chicago's South Side. Blues, ballads, and reels to be read aloud, crooned, shouted, recited, and sung. Some with gestures, some not - as you like. None with a far-away voice" (p.[ix]). Dickinson 12; Blockson 6355. First Printing, one of 3,300 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); black and orange cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and in pink on front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],124,[6]pp, with frontispiece and 12 illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer. Contemporary owner's ink name to front endpaper, else a fresh, Fine copy, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced… Read More

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1942.. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards (lacking dust jacket).. Spine chipped at the crown; some general wear to binding; good to very good. A major association copy.. 8vo,. Inscribed by Hughes to critic/novelist Nat Hentoff in 1945.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Patricia Gibson- Sincerely- Langston Hughes." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Shakespeare in Harlem is a garland of verses about the "dream deferred" to which Lorraine Hansberry refers in "Raisin in the Sun." An old man, sitting on a curbstone, ponders the problem of migration to Harlem from the South and the West Indies.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 124pp. Near fine with sunning along the spine and two miniscule marks on the front board in about good or better dust jacket with chipping on the spine and front flap, tear on the rear flap and some general edgwear. Inscribed in Hughes' hand just two months after publication: "Inscribed especially for Dorothy Elvidge, with the sincere regards of - Langston Hughes Chicago, April 27, 1942." Elvidge was the comptroller of the Rosenwald Fund, which granted fellowships to numerous African-American writers, artists and intellectuals from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, including to Hughes. He later wrote the story "Simple and the Rosenwald Fund," which lamented its demise. An interesting association.

New York: Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. Two signed items. Stated first edition of book which is inscribed by Hughes on the front free endpaper "To Edwin R. Embree, with the sincere regards of Langston Hughes. Chicago, February 24, 1942." Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Book has black and orange cloth boards. Slight fading of orange at top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket, with price intact, has a long 1/8-inch shallow chip across top front, edgewear and small corner chips. ALSO laid in is a 5x8" one-page poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Hughes. Signed and dated 1941 by Hughes on the front. On the verso he has writen "Twenty Years Writing and Publishing -- June 1921-June 1941". This is the first separate publication of the poem and it is printed on orange card stock with illustration at top by Aaron Douglas. It is one of 250 copies Hughes had printed in 1941 and sent to friends and is now rare. Not available for international shipping. Stated first edition.