A 1st ed., 1st printing of The First Book of Negroes
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A first edition, first printing of The First Book of Negroes by Langston Hughes (New York, 1952). According to the catalog sheet from Bauman Rare Books, which accompanies the item, this is "the highly elusive first printing issued at the height of McCarthyism with Josephine Baker's image and biography that was quickly omitted from subsequent printings".
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A 1st ed., 1st printing of The First Book of Negroes
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