A NEW SONG
New York: International Workers Order, 1938. First Edition. Octavo, 31 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps. Rubbing along extremities, heaviest on spine. Open tear at head of spine. Age toning and moderate soiling to covers. Creasing to corners of covers and in top corners of textblock. Light age toning throughout interior. Shelved in Case 3.
1419247
Shelved Dupont Bookstore
Price: $300
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.
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Includes the poem "Let America be America Again."