One-Way Ticket
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's quarter navy cloth over canary yellow paper boards. Gilt lettering to spine, blindstamping to front cover. 136 pp. Near Fine with light edgewear to boards and light toning throughout, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, toning and edgewear, tape reinforcement to jacket verso at head of spine and front fold end. One-Way Ticket is a chronicle of the Great Migration combining poems by Langston Hughes with brush and ink drawings by the social realist artist Jacob Lawrence. Elegantly designed by Marshall Lee and printed by H. Wolff. Uncommon with a dust jacket in this condition.
Price: $1,500