Description
Signed first edition of The Negro, a survey of African-American history, by W. E. B. Du Bois.
Octavo, 254pp, [8pp ads]. Tan cloth, title stamped in black on spine. “Home University Library” stamped on front cover, number 91 of the series. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to covers, small pen mark to back cover. Previous ownership bookplate on front endpaper, stated: “This book is from the library of The Wrights” of New York City. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Housed in a custom red cloth clamshell.
(Partington 2346) (Work 589) (Blockson 10448)
Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper.
A near fine example of a truly scare work, rarely seen signed.
This copy is from the library of Benjamin Wright, the brother of Reverend Nathan Wright, a prominent black leader in Newark. Benjamin Wright was the father of Benjamin Wright, Jr., a Morehouse College student who was murdered in 1970. Civil Rights activist and Baptist minister Al Sharpton offered the benediction at Wright Jr.’s funeral. (New York Times, 1970)
