The Dream Keeper.
"HOLD FAST TO DREAMS For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly": First Edition of Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper
The Dream Keeper.
HUGHES, Langston.
$850.00
Item Number: 125808
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
First edition of this classic collection of poems. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations by Helen Sewell. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Helen Sewell. First editions are uncommon.
First published in 1932, The Dream Keeper is Langston Hughes's only collection of poems for children. It includes some of Hughes's best-known, best-loved and most powerful works, poems filled with spiritual energy.