Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 273

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DU BOIS, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Portrait frontispiece. Tall 8vo, original black cloth, stamped in blind and lettered in gilt; very slight mottling to the spine extremities and board edges; front inner hinge repaired; rear hinge started. Chicago: McClurg, 1903

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"second edition"though properly speaking the first edition, second printing, published only six months after the first. There were in all three printings in 1903 alone. It is likely given the publishing norms of the day, that there were probably no more than 500 to 750 copies in the first printing and not that many more in the second. Du Bois's collection of essays went through nineteen more editions by 1938.