Search Results: simple takes a wife by langston hughes

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1953. Pictorial boards. Paper heavily browned with age, < 1" tear in spine/front cover joint, else clean tight copy: VG-/no dj. 8vo. 1st printing [of 1st edition] so stated

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition in pictorial boardspaper lighly browned. ix, 240 p. ; 21 cm

NY: Simon Schuster, 1953. First edition. 8vo,Pp.240. Glazed boards, leaves lifghtly browned. A novel of the Harlem "Rooming-House Set

Victor Gollancz, London., 1954. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp ix, 240. The publisher's copy, with "Archive Copy" rubber-stamped on the title-page. Spine very slightly bumped at head and tail, otherwise fine in near-fine slightly marked dustwrapper slightly creased at head and tail of spine.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 193. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/None. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Laminated pictorial boards - fading to the titles and boards, shelf wear. Issued without dust jacket, pages browned as usual with this particular book, printed on highly acidic paper. Publisher's post card laid-in. Overall a nice copy of this title.

Simon & Schuster, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Langston Hughes' short stories of the Harlem everyman Jesse B. Semple, a.k.a. "Simple", were first published in The Chicago Defender which was arguably the most important Black periodical in America at the time. This set includes a vinyl LP read by Ossie Davis. The first three books are first editions; the last two are both 1965 printings. Very good condition overall, some fading to jacket of the first volume

Simon and Schuster . Stated First Printing. Uniform age toning. No DJ as issued. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1953.

London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1954. First British Edition. Near Fine. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's drab wraps with typed paper title label adhered to upper wrap with "uncorrected" rubber-stamped to front wrap and title page. Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover. Near Fine with lean to binding, light toning and wear. Pages tanned and several hinges exposed throughout. Hughes' breakthrough second work in his popular series, rare in this format.