HUGHES, Langston, translator. GUILLÉN, Nicolás. Cuba Libre. 1948. LIMITED EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO NOEL SULLIVAN.
Sale 1336 - Fine Books and Manuscripts, including Worlds of Tomorrow, and Americana
Jun 7, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$400 -
$600
Sold for $953
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
HUGHES, Langston, translator. GUILLÉN, Nicolás. Cuba Libre. Los Angeles: Anderson & Ritchie, The Ward Ritchie Press, 1948.
4to. Title and headlines printed in brown. Original brown cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut (some light toning to spine). Provenance: Noël Sullivan (presentation inscription); by descent to present owner.
PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY HUGHES TO SULLIVAN: “Happy Holidays to Noël – Langston Christmas 1948.”
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies. Hughes visited Noël Sullivan at Hollow Hills in Carmel Valley in April of 1948; by July of that year, Hughes moved into 20 East 127th Street. At age 46, he finally had his own home, a place where he would stay for the rest of his life. At Christmas that year, “all was calm and bright…a mightily snowfall that whitened New York brought a measure of enchantment to his first Christmas in his new home. A deluge of gifts also arrived [from across the country]… Perhaps the most handsome of all, from Anderson and Ritchie, Cuba Libre: Poems by Nicolás Guillen” (Rampersad, Life, Vol. II, p.159). From his first home, he sent his patron and friend Noël Sullivan a copy of the work.
Fine African Americana from the Collections of Noël Sullivan & William P. and Alice D. Mahoney
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