May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 562
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DU BOIS, WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT. Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept. viii, [2], 334 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minimal wear; a few light pencil notes; in original dust jacket with minor wear. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1940]

Additional Details

First edition of what Du Bois describes in his preface as "not so much my autobiography, as the autobiography of a concept of race." Blockson 2745; Partington 2354.