{"id":9215,"date":"2014-05-21T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2014-05-21T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T12:04:11","slug":"new-acquisition-langston-hughes-revises-his-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2014\/05\/21\/new-acquisition-langston-hughes-revises-his-text\/","title":{"rendered":"New Acquisition: Langston Hughes Revises His Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Rubenstein Library, sometimes we primarily judge books by their covers, be they bejeweled, finely bound, or otherwise interestingly decorated.\u00a0 And sometimes we certainly do not. Case in point: the book below.<\/p>\n

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The Library wouldn’t acquire most copies of the third edition of Langston Hughes’s Shakespeare in Harlem<\/em>, especially not a copy without its original dust jacket and rather heavily worn.\u00a0 But this was no ordinary copy.\u00a0 This appears to be\u00a0 Hughes’s own copy of the last edition of this book issued during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

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Inscription on front endpaper of this copy of Shakespeare in Harlem<\/i>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not only that, Hughes made changes to fifteen of its poems, some of them dramatic shifts in the tone, rhythm, length, or meaning of the text.<\/p>\n

\"Hughes's<\/a>
Hughes’s poem “Down and Out,” with repetitive lines crossed out and some representations of dialect changed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The copy recently turned up in a sorority house at Lincoln University, from which it was sold at auction and entered the rare book trade.\u00a0 Much about the volume remains to be discovered.\u00a0 The changes that Hughes made in this volume have not been published or incorporated into any of the later editions of Hughes’s collected works or poems.<\/p>\n

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