One-Way Ticket Presentation copy

by Langston Hughes

$1,950 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, Happy Holidays to Marion - Sincerely, Langston, Christmas, New York, 1948. A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in bronze, yellow paper sides, front cover lettered and decorated in blind, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. Lightly

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