The Dream Keeper.
HUGHES, Langston.
The Dream Keeper.
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly": Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper; Lengthily Inscribed by Him
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
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Early printing of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Helen Sewell. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Edith E. Shepherd, a real teacher whom it is a delight to have known- Sincerely- Langston Hughes Laboratory School, Chicago, May, 1949.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Sewell. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.
First published in 1932, The Dream Keeper is Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children. It includes some of Hughes's best-known, best-loved and most powerful works, poems filled with spiritual energy.
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