Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 430

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. The Negro and the "Solid South," being Comments on "The Basis of Ascendancy" by Edgar Gardner Murphy. 12 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; wrapper edges slightly discolored; faint crease where originally folded for mailing. Cheyney, PA: Committee of Twelve, for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, 1909

Additional Details

first separate edition, first appearing in the "Independent." Washington praises a book by Edgar Gardner Murphy, a young white Southerner who advocated for the two races working together to repair the problems of the South and elsewhere. Not in the Blockson catalogue.