Hughes, Langston

JIM CROW'S LAST STAND [Inscribed to the Doyles]

Atlanta: Negro Publication Society of America, 1943. First Edition, Second Issue. Octavo, 30 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's tan printed wraps. Heavy soiling to covers. General rubbing and wear. Closed tearing at tail of spine and at bottom edge of rear cover. Open tearing at head of spine. Vertical crease on covers and throughout textblock. Soiling and bumping on bottom edges throughout interior.


Inscription on title page reads: "To Bob—nice as that Pacific isle is—wish you were here—Sincerely, Langston" in blue ink and dated April 21, 1944. Includes an asterisk written in black ink, presumably by one of the Doyles, with a footnote that says "*Me too!"


Shelved in Case 3.

1419253

Shelved Dupont Bookstore

Price: $1,250

NOTES

Race and Culture Series No. 2. Second Issue with "belt" corrected on Table of Contents page.

Inscription reads: "To Bob—nice as that Pacific isle is—wish you were here—Sincerely, Langston" in blue ink and dated April 21, 1944. Includes an asterisk written in black ink, presumably by one of the Doyles, with a footnote that says "*Me too!"

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.