Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
DU BOIS, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folks. 264 pages. Tall 8vo, original black cloth, lightly faded; binding re-cased with new end-papers. Chicago: McClure, 1903

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first edition, of a classic Du Bois title. It is in these pages that one can see a clear divergence in philosophy from Booker T. Washington''s more passive "boot-strap" theory of progress for the race.