The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present.

First Edition of The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers; Inscribed by Langston Hughes

The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers: An Anthology from 1899 to the Present.

HUGHES, Langston; Ralph Ellison; James Baldwin; Gwendolyn Brooks; Alice Walker; et al.

Item Number: 129556

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

First edition of this authoritative collection of short stories by African American writers edited, selected, and annotated by Langston Hughes, the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Langston Hughes on the front free endpaper in the year and city of publication, “Sincerely ~ Langston Hughes Boston 4-9-67.” Near fine in a near fine jacket with light rubbing and two small closed tears. Jacket design by Harsh/Finegold. Rare and desirable signed by Hughes.

The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers includes short stories by Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, John Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, Ted Poston, Conrad Kent Rivers, and Mike Thelwell among dozens of others.

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