first edition Hardcover
1953 · New York
by HUGHES, Carl Milton
New York: Citadel Press, 1953. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. 288pp. Fine in about fine dust jacket with very slight wear. Exploration of the work of Richard Wright, Frank Yerby, Chester Himes, Ann Petry, J. Saunders Reading, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Willard Motley, and others. Serious literary criticism of black novelists by a white academic, reprinted in 1967, this first edition is uncommon. (Inventory #: 585801)