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Works for Children and Young Adults: Biographies

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By Langston Hughes and Steven C. Tracy (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780826213723 | Univ of Missouri Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

The Poems: 1951-1967

Product Description: Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life. Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) brilliantly fused the modernist dissonances of bebop jazz with his perception of Harlem life as both a triumph of hope and a deepening crisis ("What happens to a dream deferred?")...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad (editor)

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9780826213419 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life.

The Novels: Not Without Laughter and Tambourines to Glory

By Dolan Hubbard (editor) and Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780826213426 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

The Poems: 1941-1950

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By Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad (editor)

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9780826213402 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

The Poems: 1921-1940

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By Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780826213396 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964

An engaging portrait of two key figures of the Harlem Renaissance presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between gifted African-American poet Langston Hughes and his white mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues, a study of American culture, and portraits of W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and other important figures. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Emily Bernard (editor), Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten

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9780679451136 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.

The Book of Rhythms

Introduces the concept of rhythm, and looks at rhythms in nature, music, and everyday life (view table of contents)

By Langston Hughes, Wynton Marsalis (introduced by), Robert G. O'Meally and Matthew Wawiorka (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780195143065 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 21, 2000, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Introduces the concept of rhythm, and looks at rhythms in nature, music, and everyday life

Popo and Fifina

Popo and Fifina move from the country to a village in Haiti where Papa Jean plans to earn a living as a fisherman

By Arna Bontemps, E. Simms Campbell (illustrator) and Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780195087659 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 21, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Popo and Fifina move from the country to a village in Haiti where Papa Jean plans to earn a living as a fisherman

Paperback:

9780195139396 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 7, 2000, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Popo and Fifina move from the country to a village in Haiti where Papa Jean plans to earn a living as a fisherman

Selected Stories and Poems

By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (editor) and David Roessel (editor)

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Paperback:

9780395980767 | Mariner Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $8.50 | also contains B.o.o. 1

Simples Uncle Sam

Product Description: Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collectionLangston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction. None of his creations won the hearts and minds of his readers as did Jesse B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Langston Hughes

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9780884117094 | Amereon Ltd, June 1, 1940, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Jesse B.

Paperback:

9780809086818, titled "Simple's Uncle Sam" | Revised edition (Hill & Wang Pub, May 1, 2000), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Langston Hughes's most beloved character comes back to life in this extraordinary collectionLangston Hughes is best known as a poet, but he was also a prolific writer of theater, autobiography, and fiction.

9780809000876, titled "Simple's Uncle Sam" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1965, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Jesse B.

Langston Hughes Reads His Poetry

Langston Hughes reads his poetry, along with his own commentary, in a collection that includes 'Ku Klux Klan,' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' and 'Southern Mammy Songs.'

By Langston Hughes

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694522736 | Abridged edition (Caedmon Audio Cassette, April 1, 2000), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Langston Hughes reads his poetry, along with his own commentary, in a collection that includes 'Ku Klux Klan,' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' and 'Southern Mammy Songs.

The Political Plays of Langston Hughes

Brings together Hughes's historically valuable plays, prefacing each play with an analysis of the playwright's motivation and insight into his life at the time of the writing. (view table of contents)

By Susan Duffy (introduced by) and Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780809322954 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Brings together Hughes's historically valuable plays, prefacing each play with an analysis of the playwright's motivation and insight into his life at the time of the writing.

Paperback:

9780809322961 | Southern Illinois Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Brings together Hughes's historically valuable plays, prefacing each play with an analysis of the playwright's motivation and insight into his life at the time of the writing.

The Ways of White Folks

Fourteen stories deal with the interaction of Blacks and whites in 1930s America, including the stories of an ailing musician, a moonlighting student, and a clever charlatan (view table of contents)

By Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780394451169 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1934, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In these acrid and poignant stories, Hughes depicted black people colliding--sometimes humorously, more often tragically--with whites in the 1920s and '30s.

Paperback:

9780679728177 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Fourteen stories deal with the interaction of Blacks and whites in 1930s America, including the stories of an ailing musician, a moonlighting student, and a clever charlatan

Prebinding:

9780833590572 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.10 | About this edition: Fourteen stories deal with the interaction of Blacks and whites in 1930s America, including the stories of an ailing musician, a moonlighting student, and a clever charlatan

Short Stories

Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns (view table of contents)

By Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780809086580 | Hill & Wang Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

Prebinding:

9780613025041 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $28.20 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

Simple Stakes a Claim

By Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780848821784 | Reprint edition (Amereon Ltd, July 1, 1999), cover price $25.95

Poems/Hughes

Presents nearly two hundred of the author's poems, including works celebrating African American music and life, denunciations of Jim Crow and racism, and verses about Africa and the Spanish Civil War.

By Langston Hughes and David E. Roessel (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780375405518 | Everymans Library, April 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents nearly two hundred of the author's poems, including works celebrating African American music and life, denunciations of Jim Crow and racism, and verses about Africa and the Spanish Civil War.

Carol of the Brown King: Nativity Poems

A colorfully illustrated collection of nativity poems for young readers celebrates the beauty and majesty of the very first Christmas.

By Ashley Bryan (illustrator) and Langston Hughes

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School and Library:

9780689818776 | Atheneum, October 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Five poems by Langston Hughes and one anonymous one translated from the Spanish present the story of the first Christmas from different perspectives

The Pasteboard Bandit

Originally written in 1935 and left unpublished, a story by two great twentieth-century black poets follows the adventures of an American boy in Mexico with his two companions--one of them a pasteboard bandit named Tito.

By Alex Bontemps (introduced by), Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Peggy Turley (illustrator) and Cheryl A. Wall

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9780195114768 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When he and his parents move to the quiet Mexican town of Taxco, Kenny makes friends with Juanito Perez, and the two share many adventures with Juanito's special papier-mache toy, Tito.

The First Book of Jazz

An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development.

By Langston Hughes and Cliff Roberts (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780880014243 | Ecco Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A history of jazz celebrates the diverse backgrounds that contribute to the music's rich culture, and features the poet's one hundred favorite recordings

Paperback:

9780880015523 | Ecco Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A history of jazz celebrates the diverse backgrounds that contribute to the music's rich culture, and features the poet's one hundred favorite recordings

Pride and Promise: The Harlem Renaissance

Discusses the great twentieth-century artistic awakening in New York's Harlem and profiles such leaders as Langston Hughes. (view table of contents)

By Kathryn T. Cryan-Hicks (editor), Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and Claude McCay

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9781878668301 | History Compass, March 1, 1997, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Discusses the great twentieth-century artistic awakening in New York's Harlem and profiles such leaders as Langston Hughes.

Voices & Visions-Langston Hughes

By Langston Hughes

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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781561769254 | Mystic Fire Audio, December 1, 1996, cover price $10.95

Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories

By Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper and Langston Hughes

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Paperback:

9780826210883 | Univ of Missouri Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $24.95

Poetry in Motion

Product Description: Book by Poetry Society of America, Parker, Dorothy, Cummings, E. E.

By Langston Hughes and Dorothy Parker

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Miscellaneous:

9781569248058 | Gmc crds edition (Marlowe & Co, June 1, 1996), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Poetry Society of America, Parker, Dorothy, Cummings, E.

Short Stories of Langston Hughes

Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

By Donna Sullivan Harper and Langston Hughes

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Hardcover:

9780809035410 | Hill & Wang Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

Paperback:

9780809016037, titled "The Short Stories of Langston Hughes" | Reprint edition (Hill & Wang Pub, August 1, 1997), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Offers a collection of stories written between 1919 and 1963 that follow Hughes' literary development and the growth of his personal and political concerns

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Huges contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Langston Hughes and Arnold Rampersad (editor)

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9780679764083 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Arranged chronologically, a comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form and commentary by Hughes's biographer.

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