Description
Signed first edition of The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes.
Octavo, [xviii], 77pp. Full teal blue cloth, title in red on cover and spine, red top stain. Stated “Seventh Printing, May, 1946” on copyright page. Solid text block, toning to edges, bumped corners, internally fine. Dust jacket illustrated by Helen Sewell, with numerous black and white drawings throughout. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $2.75 retail price on front flap, black pen inscription on spine. Strip of toning across middle of jacket, chipping to head of spine, touch of soiling to rear panel.
Inscribed by the author: “To Elizabeth —, Sincerely, Langston Hughes / June 3, 1949.”
