Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 207 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Stories, poems, articles, and essays on Africa, selected by Langston Hughes. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, mostly to spine. Fading and rubbing to dust jacket as well. Light bumping to spine and corners. Faint age toning to text block top edge. Unmarked. A tight and clean copy.
Hardcover. Fair Lawn, NJ, Essential Books, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Dark red top edge. Edge wear, light soiling to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Handsel Books, 1st, 2003-12-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1st US, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 173 pages. Pictorial dust jacket with slight foxing on bottom back cover. Slight browning on edges of front and back dust jacket flaps. Green boards with green writing on spine. Writing in pen on page 9. Stamping on dust jacket and front flyleaf.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket worn, with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chelsea House Publications, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. No dust jacket issued. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 894 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 894 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Original dust jacket with sunfade to spine edge, light toning, price-clipped. Clean & unmarked text. Tight copy.
Chicago, Henry Regnery, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with major edgewear, chipping. previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Black cloth covers show standard wear. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, Reprint, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW POET JOHN ENGELS. Covers somewhat worn, especially around corners and edges. Light creasing on front cover. Some chipping on rear cover. Minor soiling on covers. A little staining on fore edge. Slight pen marks on all edges. About 10 pages previously dog-eared. Top corners of pages slightly creased. Occasional small stains on pages. 5-10 pages with pen markings. Good, tight copy.
Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Texas Christian University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 183 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Small stain to bottom edge of dust jacket front. Otherwise tight copy.
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A reprint of two brilliant verse essays by an American Master
Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 558 pages. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine (excellent). Some pencil marking inside, but light. Binding still quite tight and clean inside. A touch of foxing to endpapers. In great shape for its age.
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