Mid Century 8vo Book, w.e. Burghardt Dubois's the Souls of Black Folks, Limited and Autographed Edition - 2 Pieces

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Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folks: Essays and Sketches.

New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1953, … Read more Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt. The Souls of Black Folks: Essays and Sketches.

New York: The Blue Heron Press, 1953, Jubilee edition, author signed, print run of unstated limitation. 8vo; 746 pp. Quarter black cloth, spine stamped with silver gilt title, sunned with chipped crown, eggplant floral pattern boards, corner tip wear, tipped in signature plate adhered to front free endpaper, light age-toned text, protective polyvinyl wrap. Good.

Measures: 5.75 x 1 x 8.25 inches.
Approx. weight: 1 pounds.

Note: Du Bois's literary-political work began with The Souls of Black Folk (1903), a now classic book of essays and sketches. Written in simple, beautiful, Biblical rhetoric, this book is a passionate polemic justifying Reconstruction, criticizing Booker T. Washington and giving a devastating picture of the Black Belt. It also demanded the right to vote, civic equality, the education of youth according to ability and all rights implicit in the Declaration of Independence. Finally, the book set forth the cultural gifts of the Negro to America. This book, said James Weldon Johnson, had a greater effect upon and within the Negro race in America than any other single book published in this country since Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Du Bois said of the present edition, I have clung to this decision, and my thoughts appear again as then written. I have made less than a half-dozen alterations in word or phrase and then not to change my thought as previously set down but to avoid any possible misunderstanding today of what I meant to say yesterday. ...I hoped in other books to set down changes of fact and reaction.

Included: One gelatin silver print or original vintage press photographic reproduction, 1 inch tear at upper left corner, slight creases and ear marks, from the archives of the Star Tribune depicting William Du Bois shaking hands with Frederic Joliot-Curie at a Paris peace conference in 1949. Provenance: Star Tribune archives, Minneapolis, MN. Good.

Measures: 6 H x 9.75 W inches. See less