HUGHES, Langston. Fine Clothes to the Jew. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$200 -
$300
Sold for $953
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Fine Clothes to the Jew. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
8vo. Original green gilt-lettered cloth (spine sunned). Provenance: Noël Sullivan (bookplate); by descent to present owner.
Third edition, published October 1929, and preceded by editions published February and May 1927. Despite poor reviews from Black critics, and “perhaps the poorest sales of any book Hughes would ever publish…Fine Clothes to the Jew was also his most brilliant book of poems, and one of the most astonishing books of verse ever published in the United States – comparable in the black world to Leaves of Grass in the white” (Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, p.141).
Fine African Americana from the Collections of Noël Sullivan & William P. and Alice D. Mahoney
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