The Weary Blues

by Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, Introduction

$9,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. First edition, first printing. Signed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper and inscribed, For Mrs. Nettie Pierce - with sincere regard April 26, 1943. Bound in publisher's original patterned crepe paper over boards; blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with slight lean to binding, toning to spine and light rubbing to gilt and light wear to ends. Minor soiling and toning to

• Binding: Hardcover

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