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The best of Simple / by Langston Hughes. Illustrated by Bernhard Nast.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Series:
- American century series
- American century series ; AC39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simple (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Simple (Fictitious character).
- African American men--Fiction.
- African American men.
- Humorous stories, American.
- Humorous stories, American--20th century.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Banks, Joanna (bookplate) (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Hill and Wang 1961.
- Contents:
- Foreword: Who is Simple?
- Feet Live Their Own Life
- Landladies
- Simple Prays a Prayer
- Conversation on the Corner
- Simple on Indian Blood
- A Toast to Harlem
- Simple and His Sins
- Temptation
- Wooing the Muse
- Vacation
- Letting off Steam
- Jealousy
- Banquet in Honor
- A Veteran Falls
- High Bed
- Final Fear
- There Ought to be a Law
- Income Tax
- No Alternative
- Springtime
- Last Whipping
- Seeing Double
- Simple on Military Integration
- Blue Evening
- A Letter from Baltimore
- Seven Rings
- What Can a Man Say?
- Empty Room
- Picure for Her Dresser
- Cocktail Sip
- Apple Strudel
- Bop.
- (Continued) Formals and Funerals
- Fancy Free
- Midsummer Madness
- Morals is her Middle Name
- They Come and They Go
- A Million-and One
- Two Loving Arms
- All in the Family
- Kick for Punt
- Subway to Jamaica
- No Tea for the Fever
- Boys, Birds, and Bees
- On the Warpath
- A Hearty Amen
- Must Have a Seal
- Shadow of the Blues
- Once in a Wife-time
- Present for Joyce
- Christmas Song
- Tied in a Bow
- Sometimes I Wonder
- Four Rings
- Simply Love
- Bang-up Big End
- Duty is Not Snooty
- Bones, Bombs, Chicken Necks
- A Dog Named Trilby
- Enter Cousin Minnie
- Radioactive Red Caps
- Two Sides Not Enough
- Puerto Ricans
- Minnie Again
- Vicious Circle
- Again Cousin Minnie
- Name in Print
- Minnie One More Time
- an Auto-Obituary
- Jazz, Jive, and Jam.
- Notes:
- "First American Century Series Edition September 1961"--T.p. verso.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate of Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is "Third Printing December 1964" of First American Century Series Edition.
- OCLC:
- 254361
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