HUGHES, Langston. Fine Clothes to the Jew [ASSOCIATION COPY - SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

First Edition. Aaron Douglas dustjacket art. This copy inscribed and signed by Hughes in 1948 to fellow African-American poet Bob Davis, member of the South Side Writers' Group which also included Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Frank Marshall Davis and Marian Minus [A Companion to African American Literature; Gene Jarrett and Richard Wright: The Life and Times; Hazel Rowley] An uncommon first edition to be found inscribed. "Poems in this book are hard, describing people who live hard lives in the brusque city or lonely, rural south. Actually, written in six parts alternating between the city and the country, Fine Clothes doesn’t describe these people; rather, each poem is spoken in the voice of a different, struggling soul—the prostitute, the pimp, the abusive husband, the abused wife, the player, the played, the child, the worried parent, the broken-hearted, and the philanderer". Near Fine in Good, modestly spine darkened dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping to edges, small chip at mid front spine edge, splitting at front spine edge and front flap edge mended at verso with clear scotch tape.

Price: $2,500.00