Boston, Little, Brown, (1967). An anthology covering 1899 to "the present" (1967), edited and with a 5-page introduction by Langston Hughes. More than 500 pages, with stories by and biographical notes on writers such as James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Ellison, Ernest J. Gaines, Chester B. Himes, Kristin Hunter, Zora Neale Hurston, John Oliver Killens, Paule Marshall, Jean Toomer, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and many others, including Hughes himself. Contemporary gift inscription front flyleaf; light foxing to top edge. A near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with minor edge wear and fading to the spine title. Seldom found in this condition. [#035563] SOLD