REYNOLDS, Jason. There Was a Party for Langston. With art by Jerome Pumphrey & Jarrett Pumphrey. [NY: Atheneum, 2023]. 4to, [48]pp. Orange board spine stamped in white and yellow with color pictorial boards. Color pictorial endpapers; color illustrations on every page. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Signed by the author, Jason Reynolds, and with a bookplate signed by the artists, Jerome & Jarrett Pumphrey, laid in.

 

First edition. 2024 Caldecott Honor Book! New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.