A wonderful collection of the works of Langston Hughes; novels, stories, plays, autobiographies, poems, songs, blues, pageant, articles and speeches. Among the selections are the complete libretto of his popular musical comedy Simply Heaven, all the text of his pageant The Glory of Negro History, a one-act play; Soul Gone Home; Memories of Christmas, (originally published in Circuit Magazine; My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience and Sweet Chariots of This World (The Negro Digest); How To Be A Bad Writer, (Harlem Quarterly); Shakespeare in Harlem; The Ways of White Folks; Simple Takes a Wife: Stakes a Claim, Speaks His Mind, and a profuse amount of other works drawn from every category of his prodigious literary career. Excellent compilation of the 20th Century's most revered African American writer. Black cloth spine, white and red lettering, red marbled boards. Slight bump to upper corner. DW not price clipped, black spine, red and white covers. Few 'v' shaped chips to upper edge, chip to head of spine, two closed tears to lower edge, mild rubbing. Black and white photo of Langston Hughes to rear, with short biography. 8 vo., 502 pp. First Edition, stated. In protective brodart jacket.

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