Laughing to Keep from Crying
by Hughes, Langston
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/Very Good (Minus)
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1952. A collection of 24 interrelated stories. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of a Later Printing of the First Edition. Black cloth binding with a turquoise spine, titled in maroon. Clean text; 206 pages. Previous-owner signature on the FFEP. Lightly rubbed at the margins. The dustjacket is complete (unclipped). It has a darkened spine and shows some edge-wear with several chips to the spine and bottom of the front cover, which has a closed tear. In an archival plastic protector.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/Very Good (Minus). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006590
- Title
- Laughing to Keep from Crying
- Author
- Hughes, Langston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good (Minus)
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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