Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED AND WITH A SIGNED REAL PHOTO FRONTISPIECE DU BOIS, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. Real Photo Portrait Signed by Du Bois. 8vo, original black cloth stamped in gilt and blind; extremities rubbed, front inner hinge started. Chicago: McClurg, 1903

Additional Details

first edition, second printing, inscribed and signed twice by du bois "To Mr. F. G. Browne with sincere regards, W. E. B. Du Bois." In place of the usual printed portrait frontispiece, Du Bois has substituted the actual photograph used for the frontispiece and signed it.