THE FIRST BOOK OF NEGROES

by Langston Hughes, Ursula Koering

$4,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: Franklin Watts, Inc, 1952. First printing. First edition of this picture-book history of the African diaspora, with special focus on famous Black leaders from Phillis Wheatley and Mary McLeod Bethune to Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall. Near fine in a very good plus jacket. Item #54484 Langston Hughes was one of the most famous members of the Harlem Renaissance to take

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