Shakespeare in Harlem / by Langston Hughes ; with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Author
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition
Published/​Created
  • New York : Alfred A Knopf, 1942.
  • ©1942
Description
16 preliminary pages, 124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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Former owner
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Getty AAT genre
Notes
"A book of light verse."--4th preliminary leaf.
Binding note
Princeton copy 2 In original dust jacket, with illustration of wishbone and dice, later discontinued after complaints by Hughes.
Contents
  • Seven moments of love. Twilight reverie ; Supper time ; Bed time ; Daybreak ; Sunday ; Pay day ; Letter
  • Declarations. Evil ; Hope ; Young negro girl ; Harlem sweeties ; Little lyric ; Declaration ; Kid sleepy ; Snob ; Statement Me and the mule ; Present ; Free man ; If-ing ; Aspiration
  • Blues for men. Six-bits blues ; Evenin' air blues ; Out of work ; Brief encounter ; Morning after ; Mississippi levee ; In a trouble key ; Only woman blues ; Hey-hey blues
  • Death in Harlem. Death in Harlem ; Wake ; Cabaret girl dies ; Sylvester's dying bed ; Crossing ; Death chant
  • Mammy songs. Southern mammy sings ; Share-croppers ; West Texas ; Merry-go-round ; Ku Klux
  • Ballads. Sinner ; Killer boy ; Fortune-teller ; Girl whose name is mud ; Gypsy ; Pawnbroker ; Man who's gone
  • Blues for ladies. Down and out ; Love again blues ; Midnight Chippie's lament ; Widow woman
  • Lenox avenue. Shakespeare in Harlem ; Fired ; Early evening quarrel ; Announcement ; 50-50 ; Evil morning ; Love's return ; Black Maria ; Reverie on the Harlem River ; Love.
Provenance
  • Princeton copy 1 Presentation copy to Elmer Adler from Alfred A. Knopf.
  • Princeton copy 2 Presentation copy to Margaret April with inscription by author. Compliments card from Irving P. Hotchkiss of Borzoi Books is laid in.
Place name(s)
United States New York (State) New York,
LCCN
42006325
OCLC
864042
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