Simple Takes a Wife

by Langston Hughes

$7,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition · Signed

First edition, first printing. 240 pp. 8vo. Publisher's printed and laminated paper covered boards. Some minor delamination and rubbing around the edges. Item #369370 Inscribed on the ffep: “For Bill and Alice – on my first and very happy visit to your home. Sincerely, Langston. Phoenix, June 4-5, 1953.” Alice Doyle Mahoney, niece of Noël Sullivan, first met Langston

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