Shakespeare in Harlem.

HUGHES, Langston.

Item Number: 120357

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942.

First edition of Hughes classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Dell G. Morgan Sincerely Langston Hughes.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Shakespeare in Harlem is a garland of verses about the "dream deferred" to which Lorraine Hansberry refers in "Raisin in the Sun." An old man, sitting on a curbstone, ponders the problem of migration to Harlem from the South and the West Indies.