Alfred A. Knopf 2001 Annotated. Hardcover Good Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Date: 2001. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2001. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

Knopf, Date: 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. . 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

New York : Knopf, Date: 2001. First Edition. Hardback. These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They exchanged favorite blues lyrics (""So now I know what Bessie Smith really meant by 'Thirty days in jail / With ma back turned to de wall,' "" Hughes wrote Van Vechten after a stay in a Cleveland jail on trumped-up charges). They traded stories about the hottest parties and the wildest speakeasies. They argued politics. They gossiped about the people they knew in common--James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union) , and always with playfulness and mutual affection. Today Van Vechten is a controversial figure; some consider him exploitative, at best peripheral to the Harlem Renaissance--or, indeed, as the author of the novelNigger Heaven, a blemish upon it, and upon Hughes by association. The letters tell a different, more subtle and complex story: Van Vechten did, in fact, help Hughes (and many other young ...

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New York: Knopf, Date: 2001. First edition (stated). Hardcover. As New / Mint (an unread copy); Very Fine in Very Fine DJ. Octavo in white photo-illus DJ; xxxix, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm; bibliographical references (p. 341-342) and index. Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence. Music critics -- United States -- Correspondence. Photographers -- United States -- Correspondence. African American authors -- Correspondence. Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 -- Correspondence. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 -- Correspondence. 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

New York: Knopf, Date: 2001. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. Illustrated. 356 pages. 8vo, two-toned boards, white pictorial d.w,. lightly dust-soiled and edgeworn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. First edition. A very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

NY: Knopf, Date: 2001. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xxxix, 356. Appendices, index. With 62 illustrations. Paper over boards. About as new. 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 US

New York: Knopf, Date: 2001. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original black quarter cloth and tan board, spine stamped in gilt. 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 US

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. Date: 2001. 1st Edition. 8vo 356pp . Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. B&W Photographs . 2001. Alfred A. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

ISBN10: 0679451137, ISBN13: 9780679451136, [publisher: Knopf] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]

Knopf. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Date: 2001. 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

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Knopf, Date: 2001-02-13. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2001. Knopf ISBN 0679451137 9780679451136 [US]

ISBN10: 0679451137, ISBN13: 9780679451136, [publisher: New York : Knopf] Hardcover First Edition These engaging and wonderfully alive letters paint an intimate portrait of two of the most important and influential figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Carl Van Vechten--older, established, and white--was at first a mentor to the younger, gifted, and black Langston Hughes. But the relationship quickly grew into a great friendship--and for nearly four decades the two men wrote to each other expressively and constantly. They discussed literature and publishing. They exchanged favorite blues lyrics ("So now I know what Bessie Smith really meant by 'Thirty days in jail / With ma back turned to de wall,' " Hughes wrote Van Vechten after a stay in a Cleveland jail on trumped-up charges). They traded stories about the hottest parties and the wildest speakeasies. They argued politics. They gossiped about the people they knew in common--James Baldwin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, H. L. Mencken. They wrote from near (of racism in Scottsboro) and far (of dancing in Cuba and trekking across the Soviet Union) , and always with playfulness and mutual affection. Today Van Vechten is a controversial figure; some consider him exploitative, at best peripheral to the Harlem Renaissance--or, indeed, as the author of the novelNigger Heaven, a blemish upon it, and upon Hughes by association. The letters tell a different, more subtle and complex ...