Fine Clothes to the Jew

The census claim is confirmed. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1927 is the true and only first edition of Hughes's second collection. No contemporaneous British edition is recorded among the sources consulted, and there is no original-language question. The census's relative-scarcity remark is consistent with the trade record — this book was commercially unsuccessful and was savaged in the Black press on publication, and firsts are markedly harder to find than those of The Weary Blues (Knopf, 1926) — but scarcity is not an identification point and should not substitute for the copyright-page check.