Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$202.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Xi, 96 Pp. Brown Cloth With Paper Label, Decorated Boards. One Of 500 Copies Handset, Printed On Old Ivory Linweave Early American Paper By Albert Yarrish, Caroline Anderson, And Joseph Simon, Presswork By Earl F. Myers, In December 1948. This Copy Inscribed From Myers To A Young Gloria Kramen 'With All My Love". Light Usage, Spine Label Browned, Tiny Frays To Paper At Tips.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Guillen, Nicolas; Gilbert, Gar. Cuba Libre. Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1948.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1948. 8vo, xi, 98 p., original 1/4 cloth over patterned boards, and printed on Old Ivory Linweave in an edition of 500 copies. First and only edition of this collection of poetry, translated by Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers, with illustrations by Gar Gilbert. Many of the poems featured here previously appeared in The Poetry Quarterly, The Negro Quarterly and The New Herald Tribune. Pocket residue to fpep, with tiny library stamp to top edge of same; upper edge of fep stained and lightly puckered, with tiny date stamp to upper margin of page following title; remnants of pocket to rear paste down; small spot of discoloration to lower mating of p 83, otherwise a clean copy, lightly cocked, with rubbing and fraying to board edges and corners. Scarce.
Seller: Marc J Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.
NICOLAS GUILLEN. CUBA LIBRE. Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1948.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine, clean and tight copy with just a minute touch of rubbing to corners. Translated from the Spanish by Langston Hughes and Ben Frederic Carruthers. Limited to 500 copies. This copy is Signed by Langston Hughes to Ben "Happy Holidays Sincerely Langston Hughes. New York, Christmas 1948." Included is a Signed Christmas card by Langston Hughes "Happy New Year; Merry Christmas. Issued without a jacket. Now, comes in a clear plastic sleeve. A unique copy.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.