The Big Sea

by Langston Hughes

$8,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition. 335 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth. A few spots to boards, spine fading and slightly cocked. Item #369371 Inscribed on the ffep: “For Noel, and Hollow Hills – happy island in The Big Sea – where this book was finished. Affectionately, Langston Hotel Grand, Chicago, July 26, 1940.”In March 1932 Noël Sullivan, a wealthy aspiring concert singer and a patron

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