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369 ● (LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
HUGHES, LANGSTON & PRESTISS
TAYLOR. The Negro Mother and
Other Dramatic Recitations. Covers
and eleven additional illustrations by
Prestiss Taylor. 20 pages. 8vo, original pic-
torial orange wrappers with yapped edges,
spine repaired; light edge-wear.
New York: Golden Stair Press, 1931
[1,000/1,500]
SECOND EDITION, PRINTED ONE MONTH
LATER , INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY
HUGHES:” For James D. Wilson Jr., with all
good wishes for his future, Langston Hughes,
Portland, May 27, 1932.” The Negro Mother
was the first collaboration of The Golden Stair
Press, a joint project launched by by Hughes
and Taylor. The exact number of copies of this
work is not stated, but it was in all likelihood
small.
370 ● (LITERATURE AND POETRY.)
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE. Of Mules
and Men. 342, [1] pages. Thick 8vo,
original cloth in an exquisite Miguel
Covarrubias dust jacket with some very
slight wear, a couple of professional
archival reinforcements at the jacket folds.
An exceptional copy.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935
[4,000/6,000]
FIRST EDITION WITH COVER AND ILLUS-
TRATIONS BY NOTED M EXICAN ARTIST
MIGUEL C OVARRUBIAS (NEGRO DRAWINGS,
1927)A collection of Negro folk tales from her
hometown in Florida with an introduction by
Hurston’s professor of anthropology, Franz
Boas. Because of the heavy, brittle paper stock
used, this is one of the most difficult Hurston
titles to find in an intact dust jacket.
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