Langston Hughes An African Treasury by Langston Hughes - 1970

Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. hardcover. Fair/Fair. 0x0x0. Ex library copy in jacket with pasted down mylar protection. Front endpaper has been removed. Library markings. Reading copy.

Crown Publishers, Inc.. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. (african literature, anthology, essays) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very good. Octavo, 5.75 x 8.5 in., pp. xiv + 2(Contents) + 207. Dull orange boards with black print on spine. Very light rubbing to edges and top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Three inch narrow white crease (almost a closed tear) to dust jacket spine. Six-page Introduction by Langston Hughes, who selects 9 articles, 10 miscellaneous writings, 4 essays, 13 stories and 14 poems, and provides biographical notes. xiv [2], 1-207 pp. "What white writers think of the once Dark Continent we long have known. These pages tell what black writers think" ( p. xiv), from "primitive" folk stories, to highly polished addresses before the United Nations, poetry to prose to political analysis. A ground-clearing collection put together thoughtfully including five African women's voices.