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Shakespeare in Harlem / by Langston Hughes ; with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.; Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954, illustrator.; Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.
1942
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Title
Shakespeare in Harlem / by Langston Hughes ; with drawings by E. McKnight Kauffer.
Uniform title
Shakespeare in Harlem
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York : Alfred A Knopf, 1942.
Copyright
©1942
Description
16 preliminary pages, 124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Associated name
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, author.
Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954, illustrator.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.
Note
"A book of light verse."--4th preliminary leaf.
Contents
Seven moments of love.
Twilight reverie ;
Supper time ;
Bed time ;
Daybreak ;
Sunday ;
Pay day ;
Letter
Declarations.
Evil ;
Hope ;
Young negro girl ;
Harlem sweeties ;
Little lyric ;
Declaration ;
Kid sleepy ;
Snob ;
Statement
Me and the mule ;
Present ;
Free man ;
If-ing ;
Aspiration
Blues for men.
Six-bits blues ;
Evenin' air blues ;
Out of work ;
Brief encounter ;
Morning after ;
Mississippi levee ;
In a trouble key ;
Only woman blues ;
Hey-hey blues
Death in Harlem.
Death in Harlem ;
Wake ;
Cabaret girl dies ;
Sylvester's dying bed ;
Crossing ;
Death chant
Mammy songs.
Southern mammy sings ;
Share-croppers ;
West Texas ;
Merry-go-round ;
Ku Klux
Ballads.
Sinner ;
Killer boy ;
Fortune-teller ;
Girl whose name is mud ;
Gypsy ;
Pawnbroker ;
Man who's gone
Blues for ladies.
Down and out ;
Love again blues ;
Midnight Chippie's lament ;
Widow woman
Lenox avenue.
Shakespeare in Harlem ;
Fired ;
Early evening quarrel ;
Announcement ;
50-50 ;
Evil morning ;
Love's return ;
Black Maria ;
Reverie on the Harlem River ;
Love.
Genre/form
Poetry.
Poems.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York. -- publication place.

Call number
PS3515.U274 S5 1942
Folger-specific note
Publisher's cloth boards with printed dust jacket as issued. Manuscript autograph: With love on your birthday, June 12, 1942, Teddy Jean. Bookseller's label: Hathaway House Bookshop.

Adopted by Richard and Candace Kuhta in memory of Kenneth Alan Kuhta, Acquisitions Night 2008.

Adopted by Richard and Candace Kuhta in memory of Kenneth Alan Kuhta, Acquisitions Night 2008.
Folger accession
263618

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