Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) HUGHES, LANGSTON. Senior Class of Lincoln University Requests the Pleasure of your Presence at the Commencement Exercises, June First to June Fourth, Nineteen Twenty-Nine. Illustrated with photographs. 32 unnumbered pages. Small booklet 6x4- 1/2 inches, decoratively stamped in gilt and blind. In fine condition. Westchester, Pennsylvania, 1929

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A nicely produced little booklet for the class of 1929, which included Langston Hughes. Hughes'' first book "The Weary Blues" was published in 1925 while he was still at Lincoln.