HUGHES, LANGSTON. First Book of Negroes. Signed and Inscribed, on front free endpaper: "For / Hildreth / Venita Sims / Sincerely / Langston Hughes / Nov. 21 / 1952." Square 8vo, publisher's cloth, markedly abraded on covers at edges and spine (with minor loss to gilt titling on covers and spine); faint scattered soiling throughout; lacking dust jacket. First edition. New York: Franklin Watts, 1952; inscription: Np, 21 November 1952