HUGHES, Langston.
Shakespeare in Harlem.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1942.
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First Edition of Langston Hughes' Shakespeare in Harlem; Inscribed by Him
First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Olive Johnson, Sincerely, Langston Hughes Howard May 3, 1947." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
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.
Shakespeare in Harlem.
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