New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. First edition. Quarto, xvi, 487 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white, black and brown print, illustrated. Dust jacket brown and blue with white print illustration. Price unclipped: “$50.00”. Boards in black paper. Illustrated: color and b&w photographs. Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page.      [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates].   NOTE: NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QA (ND-QA). More

Kennebunkport: Mercer House Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo, xi, 231 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine yellow with blue and black lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including slight scuffing and several instances of chips to the head/tail edges. Boards have mild wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the edges and previous owner's name to the front end paper. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column A (ND-A). More

Washington, DC / New York: Smithsonian American Art Museum / Skira Rizzoli, 2012. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto, 253 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white and light green lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Scuffing to dust jacket spine. Minor shelf wear to boards. Textblock clean. Shelved in American Art. More

1939-1941. Two Very Good typed pages measuring 8.5" x 11" each and stored in a Very Good matted wooden frame measuring 25.5" x 18". Some folds and wear along edges of pages. Probably written circa 1935, hand updated with 1940/1941, mailed to Ann Doyle at the Chicago Tribune in 1943. Original envelope included. Pages read: LANGSTON HUGHES My Career as a Writer I began to write verse in high school and became a member of the staff of our magazine and the editor of the Year Book upon graduation. (Central High School, Cleveland, Ohio, '20). My first poem to be published in a nationally known magazine appeared in the CRISIS in 1921. It was called "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". In 1925 I received the first award for poetry from the OPPORTUNITY MAGAZINE prize contest, the winning poem being "The Weary Blues". Since then I have also received awards from POETRY, PALMS, and the CRISIS for various poems. In 1925 Vachel Lindsay read three of my poems on his own program in the Little Theatre of the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington where I was working as a bus boy. In 1926 my first book of poetry appeared, in 1927 another and in 1930 my first novel, "Not Without Laughter"; in 1932 a selection of poems for young people, and a child's book about Haiti in collaboration with Arna Bontemps; and in 1934, a collection of short stories. On October 24, 1935, my first play, "MULATTO", was produced at the Vanderbilt Theatre in New York and ran for eleven months on Broadway.  I have written, as well, during these years, a large number of articles, poems, and stories that, so far, have not appeared in book form. Many of my poems and some of my articles and stories have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Dutch, in newspapers and magazines. And my novel has been published in England, Russia, and France, in book form and serially in WEN YI, a Chinese literary magazine. For this book, "Not Without Laughter", I was given the Harmon Gold Award for literature in 1931, a medal and $400.00. My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America, and much of my work appeared in Negro magazines and newspapers. I have made a number of translations of the poems of Negro writers in Cuba and Haiti. In 1931-1932 I lectured throughout the South at the Negro schools and colleges there, and one of my main interests is the encouragement of literary ability among colored writers and the development of American Negro Literature insofar as I can aid in its development. In 1933 I was invited to assist in the preparation of a scenario for a Negro motion picture to be made in Moscow. The winter of 1934 I spent in Mexico, where I translated a number of Mexican and Cuban stories. In 1935 I was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work.  For further biographical information see LIVING AUTHORS, WHO'S WHO; AMERICA'S YOUNG MEN, PORTRAITS IN COLOR by Mary White Ovington; or the introduction by Carl Van Vechten to my first book of poems, "The Weary Blues". Also CURRENT BIOGRAPHY. And THE BIG SEA, autobiography.  /// LANGSTON HUGHES BOOKS THE WEARY BLUES, poems, Knopf, 1926 FINE CLOTHES TO THE JEW, poems, Knopf, 1927 NOT WITHOUT LAUGHTER, novel, Knopf, New York and London, 1930; Gihel, Moscow, 1933; Rider, Paris, 1934 THE DREAM KEEPER, selected poems, Knopf, 1932 POPO AND FIFINA, child's story of Haiti written in collaboration with Arna Bontemps, Macmillan, 1932 THE WAYS OF WHITE FOLKS, stories, Knopf, New York; Allyn and Unwin, London, 1934 THE BIG SEA, autobiography, Knopf, 1940 [handwritten] BOOKLETS DEAR LOVELY DEATH, poems, Privately printed, 1931 THE NEGRO MOTHER, recitations, Golden Stair Press, 1931 SCOTTSBORO LIMITED, a play and four poems, Golden Stair Press, 1932 CONTRIBUTED POEMS OR ARTICLES TO:  Asia, Theatre Arts, Woman's Home Companion, Travel, Nation, New Republic, Survey Graphic, Poetry, Vanity Fair, The Crisis, The World Tomorrow, Opportunity, Labor Defender, Herald Tribune BOOKS, Scribner's, Debate, American Mercury, New Yorker, Daily Worker, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The Oracle, New Masses, Esquire, Kosmo's, Modern Story, Fiction Parade, American Spectator, and many anthologies, including O'Brien's, Untermeyer's, and Nancy Cunard's Negro. MULATTO, first play, produced at the Vanderbilt Theatre, New York, October 24, 1935, with Rose McClendon in the leading role. Other plays include Troubled Island, and Joy to My Soul done in Cleveland by the Gilpin Players.  SONGS "Four Negro Songs," John Alden Carpenter; "Breath of A Rose," William Grant Still; "Sea Charm," Edward Harris, and others by Burleigh, Handy, etc. AWARDS Opportunity Poetry Prize, 1925; Palms Intercollegiate Poetry Award, 1927; Harmon Award of Literature, 1931; selected by Dr. Charles Austin Beard in 1934 as one of America's twenty-five "most interesting" personages with a "socially conscious" attitude. A Guggenheim Fellowship, 1935. Rosenwald Fellowship, 1941. [handwritten]. More

New York, NY: Musette Publishers, 1942. Two sheets measuring 8.5" x 11" with two pages of music. In Good condition. Shelved in Case 3. More

New York: Musette Publishers, 1942. One sheet measuring 8.5" x 11" with two pages of music (labeled 2-3). In Good condition. One horizontal fold in the center with tearing at edges. General tearing and wear along extremities, especially at corners. Lightly age toned. Shelved in Case 3. More

New York: Musette Publishers, 1942. One sheet measuring 8.5" x 11" folded in half, consisting of three pages of music (labeled 3-5). In Very Good condition. Two horizontal folds with closed tearing at fore edges and creasing along center fold. General age toning and wear. Shelved in Case 3. More

New York, NY: Handy Brothers Music Co. Inc., circa. 1942. Small pamphlet, unpaginated. In Very Good condition. Cardstock folded in fourths. Includes sheet music to Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," as adapted by Margaret Bonds. Also includes advertisement and subscription card for Handy Brother Music Co. Inc. Shelved in Case 3. More

[1946]. One page ALS from Langston Hughes to editor of Time Magazine Robert Doyle and his wife Anne. In Good minus condition. Folded in fourths to open as a greeting card. Paper separated at vertical fold but horizontal fold partially intact. Printed holiday message and brief handwritten note discussing Hughes' play "Street Scene." While undated, Street Scene opened on December 16, 1946. Hughes writes: "So nice to hear from you both again and to know where you are; I'd asked Daffy about you last spring. I'm in Phila. with my show, "Street Scene." We open in n.y. January 9. Then I depart on another lecture tour (comme toujours)." Signed Langston.  Shelved Case 3. More

4.25" x 6.00" card with typed poem labelled "Christmas Cards." Possibly earlier version of Madam’s Christmas, lacking verse on Jack. Agetoning to card stock with glue staining on verso. Inscribed to Bob and Anne Doyle and signed "Langston." Shelved in Case Three. More

New York City: The Golden Stair Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo, 20 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's yellow paper covers with black lettering and decoration. Mild bumping and shelfwear to paper covers. Small half-inch closed tear on head of spine. Small spots of staining on front cover. Interior text block clean. With hand-colored illustrations by Prentiss Taylor. Shelved in Case 3. Contents: The Colored Solider, Broke, The Black Clown, The Big-Timer, The Negro Mother, & Dark Youth of the USA. More

Cleveland, Ohio: Vibration, 1970. Quarto, 12 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in publisher's yellow printed covers, scuffed and discolored. Mild tearing along fore edges. Shelved under Display Table #2. More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. First Edition. Octavo, xvi, xvii, 379 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine blue and ivory with red and blue lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including few chips to the head/tail edges and slight damp staining with slight age toning to the jacket interior. Boards have slight wear including mild cocking to the spine and some rubbing to the head/tail edges. Text block has moderate wear including age toning to the edges and slight offsetting to the end papers. First edition. Shelved in Column L. More

New York: Readers Press, Inc./McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First Edition, Second Printing. Quarto, iv, v, vi, viii, ix, x, 388 pages. In Good condition. Paperback binding. Spine pictorial blue and black with white lettering. Covers have moderate wear including slight scuffing and rubbing to the joints/edges. Text block has slight plus wear including few soiling marks to the edges. Frontispiece. Profusely illustrated. First edition, second printing. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, QB/Quarto and Folio Case. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for international/expedited orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. More

New York: Doubleday, 1990. First Edition. Octavo, x, xv, 351 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial black and white with white and pink lettering. Exterior has slight wear including slight sunning to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including slight sunning and minor edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight stains to the fore edge. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Column N. More

New York: Pocket Books, 1977. Pocket Book Edition. Small octavo, 220 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's paper covers. Textblock edges dyed yellow. Light general shelf wear. Inscribed by Walker on title page: "For Richard, Who told me "You're beautiful." Peace, Alice Sept/77." Shelved in Front Counter. More

New York, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 351 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine beige with brown lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$7.95." Light shelfwear and rubbing to dust jacket, concentrated on corners and spine. Light bumping and scuffing to head and tail of board's spine. Signed flat by Himes on front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 1. More

New York: Hill and Wang, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, x, 180 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is cream with black and red lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.95." Bumping to head and tail of spine. Mild bumping to edges of dust jacket. Rubbing and age toning to dust jacket. Mild age toning and foxing to text block. Shelved in Case 2. More

Baton Rouge, MS: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xxii, 280 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine green with white and green lettering, protected in mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear. Inscribed by Stanley on half title page. Shelved Regional U.S. History: South. More

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. First Limited Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvii, 285 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is gold with white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$25.95." Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Minor bumping to edges of dust jacket. Mild cocking to spine. Text block clean. Signed flat by Poiter on publisher's tipped-in page. Shelved in Cinema. More

20th century. Painted wood card stand in form of a bell hop. Measures 34.5 in. (height). More

Ghana: 20th century. Carved wooden standing female figure with crossed hands and painted decoration. The figure wears a light-colored dress and headdress, with dark-stained facial features, arms, and legs. Executed in a stylized West African manner reminiscent of Akan/Ashanti ancestral and fertility figures of Ghana. Retains an attractive aged surface with visible wear, losses, and abrasions to the painted finish consistent with age and handling. Measures .In Good condition. Surface wear, scuffs, abrasions, paint loss, age cracks, and handling marks throughout. Stable overall with no major structural issues observed from the photographs. More

Photograph measures 5 in. x 6.75 in. Condition is Very Good overall. Very light wear. Signed 'Sincerely ~ Langston Hughes in ink along upper edge of photo. Hughes' name in pencil to rear. Shelved showcase. More

New York: Random House, 2010. First Edition, Twenty-First Printing. Octavo, x, 622 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with illustration, white print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: “$30.00”. Boards quarter bound with brown paper to spine and tan paper to boards; slight wear to spine caps, slight bump to bottom edge of front panel. Signed in ink by the author on the title page.  NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #5. More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1998. Color photograph measuring 12" x 8.5". In Very Good minus condition. Photo features Nelson Mandela shaking hands with Dr. Henry "Skip" Louis Gates, Jr. on the day of Mandela's Harvard University honorary doctorate ceremony. Signed and dated 19-11-98 by Mandela on backside with smeared pen. Pencil on backside as well. Protected in plastic sleeve. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. More