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9780871403353 | Liveright Pub Corp, January 14, 2013, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Finally available after three decades, a lost classic of the Harlem Renaissance that Langston Hughes acclaimed for its “hard poetic beauty.
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Product Description: "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music--. This book is a glorious revelation."--Boston GlobeSpanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America--and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman...read more
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9781439571736 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 5, 2008), cover price $28.95 | also contains The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes | About this edition: "The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar--.
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9780375408274 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, April 17, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man.
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9780375707988 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 8, 2008), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A critical biography of the author of Invisible Man draws on access to Ellison's personal papers to offer a definitive study of the life, work, and influence of Ralph Ellison, detailing his poverty-stricken Oklahoma youth, his education and involvement in New York's liberal intellectual circles, his personal relationships, and the influence of racism on his life.
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9780826217165 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 31, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: 'Contributors reexamine the continuing relevance of Langston Hughes's work and life to American, African American, and diasporic literatures and cultures.
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9781402718458 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, April 28, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.
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9780195125634 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 1, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: A literary portrait of contrasting visions and styles covers the key issues important to the African-American experience, including poetry on slavery, the South, protest and resistance, music and religion, spirituality, sexuality and love, and the idea of Africa.
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9789990221329 | Harpercollins, August 30, 2005, cover price $0.02
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9781435293403 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, May 29, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Richard Wright's powerful and bestselling masterpiece reflects the poverty and hopelessness of life in the inner city and what it means to be black in America.
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9780606310840 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $16.80 | About this edition: The late tennis champion and social activist remembers his experiences in the segregated South of his youth, his triumphs on the court, his family and religious life, and his struggle with AIDS
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9780826214348 | Univ of Missouri Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: I Wonder As I Wander (1956), Hughes's second volume of autobiography, is a continuation from The Big Sea, detailing his global travels to such areas as Cuba, Haiti, Paris, the Soviet Union, and the Far East.
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Product Description: This two-volume biography has been universally acclaimed as the definitive life of the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195219364 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 5, 2002), cover price $79.90 | About this edition: This two-volume biography has been universally acclaimed as the definitive life of the leading light of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Product Description: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century. As the first installment of a two-volume biography, this portrait of Langston Hughes depicts his life from his birth in Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780735102712 | Replica Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Poet, playwright, novelist, and a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, Langston Hughes stands as one of the most extraordinary and prolific American writers of this century.
9780195151602, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes: 1902-1941, I, Too, Sing America" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 10, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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9780826214119 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: For the first time in many years, Langston Hughes's published collections of stories are now available in a single book.
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9780735102699 | Replica Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $36.00
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9780195146424 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 10, 2002), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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9780195151619, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes: 1941-1967, I Dream a World" | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 10, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
9780195045192 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the black American poet from the 1940s to his death in 1967
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9780195061697, titled "The Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967: I Dream a World" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 21, 1989), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the black American poet from the 1940s to his death in 1967
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9780195146431 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 10, 2002), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: A biography of the Harlem poet whose works gave voice to the joy and pain of the black experience in America.
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9780826213419 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Volume 3 collects the poems of the last period of Hughes's life.
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9780826213396 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Volume 1 includes the complete texts of four books of verse by Hughes, including his first book, The Weary Blues (1926), and his second, Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927), as well as other poems published by him during and after the Harlem Renaissance.
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9780826213402 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Volume 2 includes the books Shakespeare in Harlem (1942), Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943), Fields of Wonder (1947), and One-Way Ticket (1949).
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9780395980767 | Mariner Books, July 1, 2000, cover price $8.50
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A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
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9780613173162 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $25.75 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
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9780679444954 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A portrait of one of baseball's most celebrated players chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson from his rural Southern childhood to his early career in the Negro Leagues to his role as the man who broke professional baseball's color barrier
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9780345426550 | Ballantine Books, September 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
9780679774334 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, October 1, 1997), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A detailed biography of the African American baseball player who broke the color line in professional baseball, and describes the historical context of his life
9780783881317 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, July 1, 1997), cover price $27.50
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9780679460077 | Random House, September 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A portrait of one of baseball's most celebrated players chronicles the life of Jackie Robinson from his rural Southern childhood to his early career in the Negro Leagues to his role as the man who broke professional baseball's color barrier.
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9780679764083 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | 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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9780815317630 | Routledge, August 1, 1995, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Poet, dramatist, writer of short fiction, translator, activist, and social critic, Langston Hughes was a major figure in American letters of the 20th century and an important component of the Harlem Renaissance with Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others.
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9780130361202 | Facsimile edition (Pearson P T R, January 1, 1995), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of Critical Essays reflecting both older and newer perspectives.
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