Hughes (Langston) I Wonder as I Wander, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "Especially for Ezra [?Pound], who first read the manuscript of this book (its full 780 pages before cutting) with my thanks for your most helpful comments - Sincerely, Langston. Publication day, November 8, 1956" to endpaper, original cloth, light fading to spine, spine ends a little bumped, dust-jacket, very light browning to spine, spine ends and corners a little chipped, light creasing to head, light rubbing to extremities, 8vo, New York, Rinehart & Company, [1956].

⁂ An intriguing and potentially highly important association copy possibly inscribed to Ezra Pound.

Pound and Hughes first began their correspondence in 1931 before breaking off in 1935. The two poets would have no direct communication until their first and possibly only meeting in person in 1950 when Hughes was invited to give a reading at the St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC where Pound was interned. Their correspondence subsequently resumed, with Pound eager to convey to Hughes that despite reports to the contrary he had never vilified the black community. Hughes would send Pound inscribed copies of his works although no letters from him appear to have survived.