Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 160

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
W.E.B. DU BOIS, editor. Very early issues of "The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races." 23 different issues, each about 40 to 48 pages. Original illustrated wrappers; most with minor to moderate wear and dampstaining, some wrappers detached, 6 front wrappers lacking. New York, 1912-1914
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The Crisis was launched in 1910 as the official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. These issues include a cover story on Captain Charles Young (February 1912); a story by Charles Chesnutt (April 1912); numerous pieces by Jessie Fauset; an historical piece by Arthur Schomburg (July 1912); a symposium on woman's suffrage by Mary Church Terrell and others (September 1912); original cover art by John Henry Adams, Richard Lonsdale Brown, and Laura Wheeler (Waring); strident coverage of lynchings, discrimination and other outrages across the nation; and coverage of positive Black achievement in every field.

Includes the February 1912 through June 1913 issues, complete; October, November and December 1913; May, June, and July 1914; plus an incomplete duplicate of November 1913. September 1912 has substantial water damage to the rear pages. Issues lacking wrappers: November and December 1912, May, June, October and December 1913; and the rear wrappers of June and July 1914.

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