The Weary Blues.
"The singer stopped playing and went to bed while the weary blues echoed through his head, he slept like a rock or a man that's dead": Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues; lengthily inscribed by him
The Weary Blues.
HUGHES, Langston.
Item Number: 124505
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945.
Early printing of Hughes’ first book. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Grace Kelley, Sincerely, Langston Hughes Marion, October 30, 1945.” Introduction by Carl Van Vechten. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Miguel Covarrubias.
First published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life in 1925, Langston Hughes' poem "The Weary Blues" was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year. Still regarded as one of his most famous poems, it was one of the first works of prose to encapsulate the experience of the blues, a genre with its roots in the Deep South, not only as a form of art, but a way of life.
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