Simple Speaks His Mind and The Collected Poems of Sterling A Brown

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Author: James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and Sterling Allen Brown inscribed by Brown with document signed by Langston Hughes Year: [1950] and 1980 Publisher: Simon and Schuster and Harper Row Publishers Place: New York Description: Simple : 231+[1 biography] pages. Octavo (8: x 6") bound in original publisher's green cloth with black lettering to spine and facsimile signature to cover with black label in gilt lettering to spine; deckle edges with green head end pages in original pictorial jacket. Collected Poems : xii+255 pages with bibliography. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brown cloth with silver lettering to spine over beige boards with blind stamped insignia to cover in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed by the author . This is sold with the vinyl pressing of Folkways Records with Langston Hughes reading from his book Simple Speaks his Mind , with signed document and Sterling Brown reads from his Break of Day etal . First editions. Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife , and Simple Stakes a Claim --have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. Simple might be considered an Everyman for black Americans. Hughes himself wrote: ".these tales are about a great many people--although they are stories about no specific persons as such. But it is impossible to live in Harlem and not

• Binding: Hardcover

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