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HUGHES, LANGSTON. Two items, each Signed: Shakespeare in Harlem * Program for Howard University forum with Hughes. The book, additionally inscribed, "To Olive Johnson, / Sincerely, / Langston Hughes / Howard, / May 3, 1947," on front free endpaper. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate rubbing to edges; faint uneven toning to signature page; lacking dust jacket. Later printing. The program, contemporary copy of typed program for forum organized by Howard's Delta Sigma Theta sorority and held at the Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel on May 3, 1947, with list of patrons followed by Hughes's poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921). Signed at lower edge of first page. 8vo, folded sheet forming 4 pages; moderate uneven toning overall, some chipping at corners, few patron names underlined in unknown hand. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945; [May 1947]; inscriptions: [Washington, 3 May 1947]
