210 300
FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS INSCRIBED
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HUGHES, LANGSTON.
The Weary Blues * Fine Clothes to the Jew.
Two
volumes, cloth-backed paper-covered boards; edges rubbed; spines faded.
New York: Knopf, 1926, 1927
[2,000/3,000]
SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST VOLUME AND FIRST EDITION OF THE SECOND
—
BOTH
COPIES WITH LENGTHY INSCRIPTIONS
,
dated in the year of publication to Edward Perry, actor and
singer, who was at one time Countee Cullen’s lover.
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LANGSTON HUGHES AND ROY DE CARAVA.
Sweet Flypaper of Life.
Illustrated from photographs by Roy de Carava, text by Langston Hughes. Small 8vo, origi-
nal cloth-backed black boards; dust jacket present but worn.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955
[400/600]
INSCRIBED BY DE CARAVAN TO THE NOTED BLACK BIBLIOPHILE CLARENCE HOLTE
.
Holte
(1908-1993) was a pioneer advertising executive with BBD&O in New York. He is better known
as a premier book collector who sold his library of over 7000 volumes to Ahmadu Bello University in
Nigeria in 1977.
375
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HUGHES, LANGSTON.
The Weary Blues.
109 pages. Small 8vo, original pat-
terned paper-covered cloth-backed boards; spine faded, edges worn; paper lightly and
evenly toned,
INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR
.
1925
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
,
SECOND PRINTING
,
OF THE AUTHOR
’
S FIRST BOOK
,
WITH A LOVELY INSCRIP
-
TION
:
“For Edward Perry—these poems of Harlem, the sea and elsewhere, Sincerely Langston
Hughes, New York, August 23, 1926.”
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