Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 279

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DU BOIS, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Portrait frontispiece. 264 pp. 8vo, original black cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine; tips lightly rubbed, inner hinges repaired; gilt bright and readable; some of the pages have been carelessly opened, still an attractive copy. Chicago: McClurg, 1903

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second edition, one of three printings in 1903. A key work in the Du Bois' canon, and quite possibly his best. Blockson 101, #52; Partington 2333a.