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HUGHES. Laughing To Keep From Crying. 1952. -- Simple Takes a Wife. 1953. FIRST EDITIONS.

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HUGHES. Laughing To Keep From Crying. 1952. -- Simple Takes a Wife. 1953. FIRST EDITIONS.

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HUGHES, Langston (1901-1967). Laughing To Keep From Crying. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1952.

8vo. Original blue cloth-backed black boards; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (a few short tears, some slight toning). FIRST EDITION.

[With:] HUGHES, Langston. Simple Takes a Wife. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. 8vo. (Some toning.) Original laminated printed boards (some fading to spine and rear panels). FIRST EDITION.

Provenance: From the collection of Noël Sullivan. Laughing to Keep from Crying, Hughes's collection of short stories, includes some stories written in 1934 at the end of his first turbulent year in Carmel. Simple Takes a Wife is the second novel in Hughes's series of stories about Simple, a working-class Black man in Harlem.
Fine African Americana from the Collections of Noël Sullivan & William P. and Alice D. Mahoney

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HUGHES. Laughing To Keep From Crying. 1952. -- Simple Takes a Wife. 1953. FIRST EDITIONS.

Name: HUGHES. Laughing To Keep From Crying. 1952. -- Simple Takes a Wife. 1953. FIRST EDITIONS.
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