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DU BOIS, W.E.B.
The Souls of
Black Folks * Typed Note Signed.
8vo, original black cloth, with title in gilt
on the upper cover and spine; top edge
gilt; very slight wear.
Chicago: McClurg, 1903
[1,000/1,500]
STATED
“
SECOND EDITION
,”
ACTUALLY THE
SECOND PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION
ISSUED TWO MONTHS AFTER THE FIRST
.
Du Bois’ chef d’oeuvre, a collection of essays
that have withstood the test of time. Du Bois
challenged the “bootstrap” theories of Booker
T. Washington and advocated a much more
ambitious and militant plan for the new cen-
tury. Includes his famous “Of Mr. Booker T.
Washington and Others.” Lacks the portrait
frontispiece as with many of the second and
third printings we’ve seen. Blockson, 101,
#52; Partington, 2333a.
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DU BOIS,W.E.B.
The Amenia Conference. An Historic Negro Gathering.
18
pages. 8vo, original printed brick-red stiff wrappers, sewn.
AN EXQUISITE COPY
,
IN A CUS
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TOM MADE MOROCCO
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BACKED CLAMSHELL BOX
.
Amenia, N.Y.: Troutbeck Press, 1925
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
,
ONE OF
200
COPIES PRINTED
.
Following the death of
Booker T. Washington in 1915, with racism,
mob violence and lynching on the rise, the
NAACP, under the leadership of W. E. B. Du
Bois, called for an Historical Conference. Civil
Rights leaders of “all shades of opinion” gath-
ered together to assess an approach to a “New
Era.” Du Bois later said of the conference, that
“it not only marked the end of old things, and
the old thoughts, and the old ways of attacking
the race problem, but in addition to this was the
beginning of new things. Probably on account of
our meeting, the Negro race was more and more
ready to meet the problems of our world than it
could ever have possibly been without these beau-
tiful days of understanding.” The last copy of
this to sell at auction brought $3,120 at
Swann’s 2009 sale.
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