Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 248

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LITERATURE.) Hughes, Langston. One-Way Ticket * Shakespeare in Harlem. 136, [1]; [13], 124, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's two-toned cloth; dust jackets with some significant tears and chips including loss of letters, but still intact; first title with endpapers toned. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949 and 1942

Additional Details

first editions, both titles signed and inscribed by hughes. First title reads: "For Arpad, Jr., with all good wishes from an old schoolmate of your parents, Langston Hughes" and dated "Milwaukee, February 7, 1945." Second title: "Inscribed especially for Laura Irvin, with the sincere regards of Langston Hughes" and dated "Fisk, February 15, 1951."