THE FIRST BOOK OF NEGROES
New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1952. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 69 pages. In Very Good condition and lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. General shelf wear with some bumping and fraying at head and tail of spine and at corners of boards. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown. Shelved in Case 3.
1419185
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $400
NOTES
Robert and Ann Doyle met Langston Hughes when Robert was at the Chicago Tribune’s radio station WGN and he hosted Hughes for a broadcast hour.
Robert Doyle served as the Time Shanghai bureau chief in 1948. One of the last evacuees from Nanking, he then established a bureau office in Hong Kong. He was killed in Java in April of 1950, and Hughes’ was the first cable to arrive in Hong Kong for Ann. "Two Americans Are Found Slain On Jeep Journey in Central Java; One Victim Is R.J. Doyle of Time Magazine The Other Is Believed to Be Professor Raymond Kennedy of Yale" THE NEW YORK TIMES April 29, 1950, Page 3.