Franklin Library: LANGSTON HUGHES: STORIES: HARLEM RENAISSANCE: WHO'S PASSING

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Langston Hughes's "Laughing to Keep from Crying and 25 Jesse Semple Stories," Illustrated by Chris Duke, one of the COLLECTED STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST WRITERS series, published in 1981. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has matching French silk end leaves, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, Smyth sewn binding, acid-free paper, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE Condition---except for minor fading on edges of moire and minor imperfection to gilt. James Mercer Langston Hughes, who lived from 1902 – 1967, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from JOPLIN, MISSOURI. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE in New York City. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue," which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue." Some of the stories include: "Night in Harlem," "Strictly for Charity," "Why, You Reckon?", "Pushcart Man," "Who's Passing for Who," "Heavens to Hell," "Tragedy in the Baths," "Baltimore Womens," "Ways and Means," "Colleges and Color," "Whiter than Snow," "Right Simple," "For the Sake of Argument," "Mysterious Madame Shanghai," "Tain't So," "African Morning," "Professor," "Never Room with a Couple," "On the Road," "Big Meeting," "A Hat Is a Woman," "Second-Hand Clothes," "Psychologies," "That Powerful Drop," "Powder-White Faces," "Little Old Spy," "Trouble with the Angels," "Spanish Blood," and others. 269 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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