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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 324 pages. In Good minus condition with no dust jacket. Bound in publisher's decorated light brown cloth with black titling to spine. Moderate shelf wear and rubbing, spine with toning and some staining, head and tail both fraying, bumping to corners, small line of worming to front cover. Interior with some mild age toning and finger smudges, bookplate to front pastedown offsetting onto front free end paper. Stamp reading 'first edition' to copyright page. JR Consignment. Shelved in Case 2. Langston Hughes' debut novel, released in 1930, is a semi-autobiographical story about an African-American family living in Kansas during the 1910s. The setting and many of the characters are based on Hughes' experiences growing up in Lawrence, Kansas. This first edition, first printing copy is inscribed by Hughes on the front free end paper in his characteristic green ink, and dated September 29, 1959. 1361993. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. By the late 1920s, Hughes' work had been, for over a decade, enormously influential on the literature and politics that shaped the Harlem Renaissance. At a time before widespread arts grants, Hughes had gained the financial support of several private patrons and took two years to develop and publish his first novel, Not Without Laughter. In line with his previous work which sought to depict the "low life", that is, the real lives of blacks in the lower social-economic strata, the semi-autobiographical novel follows the story of a black boy named Sandy growing up in a small Kansas town in the 1930s. Sandy's mother works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family, while his father is constantly traversing the country in search of work. Hughes said that a good portion of the novel's characters and settings were based on his memories of growing up in Lawrence, Kansas: "I wanted to write about a typical Negro family in the Middle West, about people like… Leer más