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HUGHES, Langston and Milton Meltzer.

A Pictorial History of the Negro in America.

First Edition of A Pictorial History of the Negro in America; Lengthily Inscribed by Langston Hughes

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1956.

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First edition of this important compilation on the history of African Americans. Quarto, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Especially for Laura and Louise Fields, as a gift at Christmas from Mabel Smythe- Sincerely, Langston Hughes New York 1957." In near fine condition.
With over 1,000 reproductions of pictures, paintings, broadsides, drawings, woodcuts, and cartoons, Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer's 'Pictorial History of the Negro in America' provides a thoroughly researched narrative timeline of African American ancestry unmatched by any other.
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