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INSCRIBED BY LANGSTON HUGHES

HUGHES, Langston. Famous Negro Music Makers. New York, 1955.

First edition of Hughes' important volume of 18 essays on Black music and musicians, enriched by "Hughes' liveliness and depth of feeling as a poet," this rare copy warmly inscribed by him in the year of publication to the founder and owner of Franklin Watts publishers and his wife, author and editor Helen, who together published all five of Hughes' critically acclaimed books with titles beginning, "First Book," starting with First Book of Negroes in 1952. In this very memorable presentation/association copy, Hughes writes across an entire page, "Inscribed especially for Frank and Helen, my 'Firsts' publishers, sincerely, Langston, New York, September, 1955." $3500.

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"THERE IS A BITTER RIVER FLOWING THROUGH THE SOUTH… THAT STRANGLED MY DREAM"

HUGHES, Langston. Jim Crow's Last Stand. New York, 1943.

First edition, exceedingly scarce first printing, of a seminal work by Hughes—“poet laureate of the wartime civil rights movement”—a pivotal volume of 23 poems, together in print for the first time, featuring his epic poem, “The Bitter River,” dedicated “to the memory of Charlie Lang and Ernest Green, each 14 years old when lynched together." $1600.

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A "DECEPTIVELY PROFOUND LITTLE BOOK": LANGSTON HUGHES' FIRST BOOK OF RHYTHMS

HUGHES, Langston. First Book of Rhythms. New York, 1954.

First edition, first printing of the pivotal second work in Hughes' influential series, showing "how all the world is connected by rhythm," a work that also signals the "jazz, blues and Black vernacular speech rhythms in his poetry," with colorful illustrations by Robin King, in scarce original dust jacket. $950.

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"I SPEAK IN THE NAME OF BLACK MILLIONS"

HUGHES, Langston. New Song. New York, 1938.

First edition of Hughes' powerful 1938 collection of long-suppressed poems, featuring 17 poems together in print for the first time, including demands for justice for the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon, most virtually banned from his body of work until inclusion in Collected Poems (1994), in original wrappers. $750.

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"TRACES OF AFRICA IN HAITI'S ANCIENT VODUN CEREMONIES"

HUGHES, Langston. First Book of the West Indies. New York, 1956.

First edition of the fourth volume in Hughes' important series on Black history, centered on the cultural diversity of the West Indies, including a section on "famous men and women of West Indian birth" that includes Alexander Hamilton and author Claude McKay, with colorful illustrations by Robert Bruce. $550.

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