Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 498

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(RACE HISTORY.) ROGERS, JOEL AUGUSTUS. Nature Knows No Color Line. Copious illustrations. 242 pages, plus errata slip attached to the verso of the last page. Original cloth in a very good unclipped dust jacket. New York: For the Author, (1952)

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first edition, signed by rogers on the title page. one of 2000 copies. Joel Augustus Rogers (1880-1966) was what one called a "Race Man." He, together with Arthur A. Schomburg, John E. Bruce and others formed the core of New York's race historians. Rogers wrote numerous books over the course of a very active life. "Sex and Race" a massive three volume work, "From Superman to Man," and "The World's Great Men of Color," all showed the accomplishments of people of African descent through the ages.