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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HUGHES, LANGSTON. Not Without Laughter. 324 pages. Thick 8vo, original decorative cloth; spine darkened, but still quite legible; bookplate of Henry Lee Moon; signs of the removal of something attached to the rear end-paper. New York: Knopf, 1930
first edition of the poet's first novel, about a negro family in kansas. Written during Hughes' last months at Lincoln University; Hughes said he'd pretty much drawn a picture of his own life growing up, but embellished it with sisters and brothers, and aunts and uncles he never had. A scarce book; there were only 2500 copies to the first edition.
