VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF LANGSTON HUGHES' THE FIRST BOOK OF NEGROES, 1952
HUGHES, Langston. First Book of Negroes. New York, 1952.
First edition of Hughes' inaugural book in his major five-volume series on Black history from the 16th century to Jim Crow America, the highly elusive first printing issued at the height of McCarthyism with Josephine Baker's image and biography that was quickly omitted from subsequent printings, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Nancy—Sincerely, Langston October 10, 1952." $5500.
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