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Sale 2697 - Lot 269

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(LITERATURE.) Gwendolyn Brooks. Maud Martha: A Novel, inscribed by Langston Hughes to Inge Hardison. viii, [2], 180, [1] pages. Octavo, 7½ x 5 inches, publisher's cloth-backed boards, minor wear; signed and inscribed "For Inge Hardison, sincerely, Langston Hughes 1953." New York: Harper & Brothers, [1953]
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First edition of the only work of prose by the famed poet Gwendolyn Brooks; she had received encouragement from Langston Hughes early in her career. The recipient of this gift from Hughes, Inge Hardison (1914-2016), was a New York actress who would later gain greater fame as a sculptor for her "Negro Giants in History" series of busts. The New York Age of 28 August 1953 reported that she was a guest at a cocktail party thrown by Hughes.

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