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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HOPKINS, PAULINE, Editor and contribu-
tor.
The Colored American Magazine.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July,
August, October and November of 1901. Copiously illustrated. Uniform 4to’s, most retain
their pictorial covers; some chipping and wear to the yapped edges; but generally in very
good condition.
Boston: The Colored Co-operative Publishing Company, 1901
[2,000/3,000]
AN ALMOST COMPLETE YEAR
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CAL
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partially edited, and with contributions by Pauline Hopkins, (1859-1930). Novelist,
playwright, and journalist. Hopkins is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to
explore social and racial themes. The first eight chapters of her novel “Hagar’s Daughter”
appear in these issues, written under her pseudonym, Sarah Allen. Nine parts of her series
“Famous Men of the Negro Race” also appear in these issues, as well as Part I of “Famous
Women of the Negro Race.” Her short story ‘Talma Gordon,’ published in 1900, is often
named as the first African American mystery story. Hopkins explored the difficulties faced by
African-Americans in the racist atmosphere of post-Civil War America in her first novel,
Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South, published by the
Colored Co-operative in 1900. In all Hopkins published three serialized novels between 1901
and 1903 in Colored American Magazine: Hagar’s Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste
Prejudice, Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest, and Of One Blood:
Or, The Hidden Self, under the pseudonym Sarah A. Allen.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HUGHES, LANGSTON.
Laughing to
Keep from Crying.
206 pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket with minor
wear, the spine and apportion of the rear panel darkened.
New York: Henry Holt, 1952
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
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INSCRIBED AND SIGNED
“Especially for Bill, in gratitude and regard—
Sincerely, Langston, New York City, 1952.”
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