Shakespeare in Harlem.
HUGHES, Langston.
Shakespeare in Harlem.
First Edition of Shakespeare in Harlem; Inscribed by Langston Hughes and in the Rare original dust jacket
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.
$3,800.00
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Item Number: 149891
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First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Alice LeVeen- Sincerely- Langston Hughes.” Near fine in a good dust jacket. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer. Uncommon signed and inscribed and in the rare original dust jacket.
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.
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