Du Bois W. E. B.ABAA
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1905140940092London: Archibald Constable & Co 1905. First British Edition. Very Good. First British edition first printing. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth ruled in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Very Good with gouge to spine affecting title rubbing to cloth at extremities. Toning to pages with foxing at preliminary and terminal leaves and light offsetting to front and rear free endpapers. A seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African American literature in which Du Bois discusses "double consciousness"--the idea that African Americans have two fields of vision one how they see themselves and the other how others view them. Archibald Constable & Co unknown books
5129Four vols. 8vo cont. vellum over boards covers of Vol. I lightly stained spines dust-soiled lightly foxed throughout as usual. The Hague: J. Swart & P. de Hondt 1725. With its almost 30000 lots this was the largest sale ever held in any country up to 1725 a record not broken until the Thott sale Copenhagen: 1789-1795 and the Heber sales of the 1830s. The Du Bois sale lasted for nearly two months. This extraordinary library was the creation of the Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon 1662-1743 who was for many years secretary of the Académie des Sciences. When in 1718 he was appointed Bibliothécaire du Roi a position he occupied until 1741 he sold his library of approximately 50000 volumes in order to avoid a conflict of interest. The buyer was the financier John Law 1671-1729 of "Mississippi Bubble" fame. Financial reversals caused Law to almost immediately resell the library for 50000 livres to Cardinal Du Bois 1656-1723 the immensely rich but ill-famed first minister during the minority and under the reign of Louis XV his misdeeds may have been exaggerated by the Duc de Saint-Simon who hated him. Guigard and others state that Law's sale of the library took place in 1723 but it cannot have been later than December 1720 when Law secretly left France after the Mississippi Bubble had burst. Following Du Bois's death the library was sold for 65000 livres to "the booksellers of Paris" who immediately sold it to one "Guiton" who in turn sent it to The Hague for auction. This library contained many famous rarities including editiones principes of Aristophanes Homer and Pliny incunabula printed on vellum Spanish romances of chivalry and illuminated manuscripts. Many of the finest books and manuscripts were acquired by a collector named Milsoneau. The Marquis de Paulmy acquired them from Milsoneau and today they are the foundation of the library of the Arsenal. Fine set and priced throughout. ❧ Guigard I pp. 238-39 & 270-71. Peignot p. 96. Taylor Book Catalogues pp. 18 102 108 113 129 207 228 & 239. hardcover books
1850100093Philadelphia 1850. 60 1 pp. plus plate of gold coinage. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original printed boards gilt-lettered cover with illustrations of gold coins expertly rebacked in matching paper a.e.g. Covers slightly rubbed. Very good. In a cloth clamshell case leather label. 60 1 pp. plus plate of gold coinage. Frontispiece. 8vo. Original Sample of California Gold. Included as illustrative material is a sample of genuine gold from the California mines as well as an inserted leaf illustrating California and Mormon coins in gilt. The authors were the official assayers for the Philadelphia Mint at the time of this work's publication and the book was intended as a guide for those unfamiliar with recent advances in coinage and assaying. The text includes much data regarding the recent strikes in California and devotes an entire chapter to the analysis of the quality of ore coming from California. The sample is included so that the novice can discriminate between alloyed and unalloyed gold. There is also a discussion of the coinage of various countries of the world including the TONG TSIEN of China a "trashy coin.extremely convenient for alms-giving a single piece being the usual quietus for a beggar." ".An extraordinary and colorful souvenir of the Gold Rush" - Wheat. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 67. HOWELL 50:74. STREETER SALE 2629. KURUTZ 217a. COWAN p.76 unknown books
1957122355New York: Mainstream Publishers 1957-61. First editions of each of novel in the author's acclaimed Black Flame trilogy. Octavo original cloth three volumes. Association copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to his close friends and neighbors Thomas and Patricia Bell in volume one. Each are near fine in a very good dust jackets. First editions are uncommon especially signed. Du Bois called his epic Black Flame trilogy a fiction of interpretation. It acts as a representative biography of African American history by following one man Manuel Mansart from his birth in 1876 until his death. The Black Flame attempts to use this historical fiction of interpretation to recast and revisit the African American experience. The last book in this profound trilogy Worlds of Color opens when Mansart is sixty and a successful and established college president. Packed with political intrigue romance and social commentary the book provides a dark cynical view of the world and its relationship to the "Black Flame" or the potential of black civilization. Mainstream Publishers hardcover books
1931140940657Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1931. Seventeenth edition. Near Fine. Seventeenth edition. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free endpaper below a tipped in illustration which is perhaps obscuring evidence of a former bookplate removal. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine with spine faded lightly worn at ends and cloth showing several faint scratches. Pages lightly tanned small tear to bottom of front free endpaper. A seminal work in the history of sociology and a cornerstone of African American literature in which Du Bois discusses "double consciousness"--the idea that African Americans have two fields of vision one how they see themselves and the other how others view them. A.C. McClurg & Co unknown books
1920List1024Harcourt Brace and Howe: New York 1920. First Edition. 8vo black cloth 276 pp. First edition. Recased in black cloth with rear board replaced. Personal library marks a few marks in text in pencil small stain to upper edge of pages but overall very good due to an expert recasing job. Very Good. An uncommon signed first edition copy of Du Bois' first autobiographical work of three composed of essays originally written in The Atlantic the Independent The Crisis and The Journal of Race Development. We believe this to be from Du Bois' personal library arriving at auction with several other books bearing identical marks to the spines the other books had the Du Bois library stamp to front free endpapers this copy is signed by Du Bois in ink. There are a few marks in pencil to the contents in an unknown hand. Expertly recased in black cloth with the original cloth preserved where extant - we acquired it without a rear board - and quite presentable. Without definitive proof of his ownership we have priced it for what it is a very uncommon signed first edition copy attractively restored. New York unknown books
195347331New York: The Blue Heron Press 1953. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. One of an unstated number of copies signed by the author on a decorative plate tipped onto the front pastedown this being copy no.497. Octavo 21cm; publisher's mauve and white patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; mauve topstain; publisher's original glassine overlay; xviii2646pp. Trivial wear to lower corners tiny tear with attendant crease to right margin of half-title page else very Near Fine in a glassine with numerous tears creases and small losses. Handsome edition of this cornerstone sociological work by Du Bois first published by A.C. McClurg in 1903. "Souls Of Black Folk was written beautifully in a style which Du Bois labored to perfect. It is one of the noteworthy books not merely of the period but of the epoch. The monumental work was the opening salvo in the struggle that has dominated the century for black and white Americans: the quest for dignity justice and equality.Every page is filled with spirituality and with spontaneity" Blockson 52. This edition bears a new foreword by Du Bois titled "Fifty Years After" and introductory matter by his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois. The Blue Heron Press unknown books
1952161124009New York: Masses & Mainstream 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by W.E.B. Du Bois on the front free end paper. Near Fine with light fading to cloth at spine ends pencil markings in text several page corners dog-earred in a Very Good dust jacket with rubbing shallow chipping at the spine ends a short split at the top of the front flap fold two closed tears with associated creasing at the bottom of the rear panel with a mending tissue repair made from the blank verso. Signed by the author. Masses & Mainstream hardcover books
190986458Philadephia: George W. Jacobs 1909. First edition of this scarce biography on Brown which was printed in a very small run. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition. Edited by Ellis Paxton Oberholzer. "This set represents an invaluable assembly of the works of the pioneering African American scholar activist and creative genius.The introductions to the individual volumes are written by such distinguished scholars as to make those writings indispensable treasures in their own right. Recommended for all public libraries and essential for every academic institution" Library Journal. George W. Jacobs hardcover books
1956106637<p>Thick 8vo dust jacket 12 746 pp. Black cloth lettered in white on spine Some dampstaining to jacket on reverse bleeding through minor chips and tears at edges reinforced with tape from reverse hints of sunning; light bumps at spine ends a few light stains to cloth small wrinkle on front pastedown evidently in original binding; very good or better in like jacket. Signed by Du Bois on the front free endpaper. First published in 1935. Black Reconstruction in America is a history of the Reconstruction era by W. E. B. Du Bois 1868-1963. In this somewhat scarce title Du Bois offered a significantly different view of from the standard academic view of Reconstruction at the time the Dunning School which contended that the period was a failure and downplayed the contributions of African Americans. Du Bois argued directly against these accounts emphasizing the important role and blacks played during the Civil War and Reconstruction. He believed that this period held promise for a worker-ruled democracy to replace a slavery-based plantation economy.</p> S.A. Russell, books
1940Embry 190148Harcourt Brace & Co. 1940. First edition first printing. The faintest of rubbing to spine tips still fine in near fine dust jacket with mild edgewear a moderately sunned spine and some mild soiling to rear panel in mylar cover. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1940. First edition, first printing. unknown books
184254602Philadelphia: published at the Assay Office of the Mint 1842. First edition 4to pp. 4 iv 1 6-220; inserted half-title printed in silver on glazed paper and 16 composite plates printed on glazed paper; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; small snag at the top of the spine and the cloth binding a little dull; the plates are all bound at the back of the volume in 4 sequential gatherings and the bulk of the plates has caused these gatherings to become extended; otherwise a complete copy with a clean text block and an interesting provenance: on the front free endpaper is the first owner's inscription "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint" and on the top of the title page "Rud. F. Kelker / April 21 1843 / bot. of Eckfeldt & Dubois / United States Mint / paid $5.00." Bookplate of Rudolph F. Kelker Harrisburg Pa. A landmark work in American numismatics. The authors were assayers of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. For nearly two decades it was the only practical guide available to American coin collectors. It was also the first work to illustrate the 1804 dollar and was one of the earliest works to combine photography electrotyping and the metal rolling machine for illustrative purposes. Sabin 21787. <br/><br/> published at the Assay Office of the Mint hardcover books
19034808Jamaica NY: Printed at the Marion Press/ Published by George D. Smith 1903. First edition. First edition. In publisher's original light olive fine-ribbed cloth with ornate central gilt strapwork design on front cover lettering and design motifs on spine. Frontispiece and thirty-eight exquisite color plates in bold chromolithographic presentation reproducing in vivid color the bindings of many of the greatest bookbindings of the period including The Club Bindery Bradstreet's Matthews Smith etc. Definitely a classic in color reproduction and certainly a fine record of Henry William Poor's celebrated collection. One of two hundred numbered copies #61 printed on Dutch handmade paper side and bottom edges uncut. A wonderful copy near fine and rarely found in its original publisher's binding. <br/><br/> Printed at the Marion Press/ Published by George D. Smith hardcover books
1905WRCAM56590AAtlanta: The Atlanta University Press 1905. 711pp. Later grey buckram with original front wrapper affixed to the front board. Old dark stain in gutter throughout minor chipping in gutter of first five leaves moderate toning to text. Upper outer corner of last leaf chipped just touching the page number. Good. The third and greatly expanded edition of an early and important study of the history and literature of African Americans edited by noted educator editor and author W.E.B. Du Bois. It is almost certainly the first bibliography of African Americana compiled by an African American. This third edition was preceded by a first edition of only four pages in 1900 and a second edition of eleven pages in 1901 both published by Atlanta University in 1900. This bibliography was created and expanded by Du Bois at an early and highly productive phase of his long and distinguished career as a writer while he was researching and writing his seminal and highly-influential study THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK published in 1903. The work opens with a short preface followed by a brief breakdown of the Tenth Atlanta Conference an annual academic event focused on African-American higher education the resolutions of said conference and a "Bibliography of Bibliographies of the Negro American." These sections are followed by the main two sections of the work. The first and most substantial portion is the titular "Select Bibliography of the Negro American" which runs thirty-six pages and lists notable African-American works alphabetically by author. The second major section lists prominent African-American periodicals also alphabetically. The final few pages are addenda to the two main sections. In his Preface Du Bois calls the work "imperfect" but thought it "better to print a poor bibliography of this great subject in the hope of bettering it in future editions than to wait longer for those better situated to do the work." The dedication reads: "To Keep the Memory of Phillis Wheatley David Walker Frederick Douglass William Wells Brown George Washington Williams and Paul Laurence Dunbar the Dead Pioneers." Another dedication lists Anthony Benezet Thomas Clarkson William Lloyd Garrison Benjamin Lundy Lydia Maria Child and Harriet Beecher Stowe "whose pens were mightier than the sword." Two much shorter editions preceded the present edition - numbering four and eleven pages respectively. This expanded work provides a much deeper selection of African-American literary and historical works. Though this expanded 1905 publication is the third edition of Du Bois's groundbreaking bibliography it is still the earliest of the three bibliographies of African Americans written by African Americans listed in Work's section titled "A Bibliography of Bibliographies on the Negro in the United States." It preceded both Schomburg's BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY 1916 and Work's own NEGRO YEAR BOOK 1925. This third edition is the only edition of Du Bois's bibliography listed by Work. WORK p.632. The Atlanta University Press hardcover books
1964298879New York: Viking 1964. First. hardcover. very good-/good. Illustrated by the author. Square 16mo pictorial yellow cloth d.w. New York: Thomas Nelson 1936. First Edition.<br/><br/> His very scarce first book written at the age of 19. The top of the spine is slightly chewed some pages are dog-eared the end leaves are browned & there is a gift inscription. the dust wrapper is separated at one fold & lightly worn at the edges but otherwise intact with the $.75 price. Better than it sounds!<br/><br/> Viking unknown books
191169486Chicago: McClurg 1911. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations 434p. Grey cloth. Silver lettering. 21cm. Several ragged portions perhaps 40% in all of the jacket are present. Attractive copy of his first novel with at least some of the extremely uncommon jacket. <br/><br/> McClurg hardcover books
1964208323Accra 1964. unbound. 1 page on blue airmail stationery 10.5 x 7 inches Accra Ghana May 31 1964. Informative letter written by the African-American activist author playwright composer and widow of W.E.B. Du Bois. She is thanking a friend for "sending me the news: 'Du Bois Classic Added to White House Library.' .I made a copy and sent it to President Nkrumah."Du Bois is honored throughout Africa as 'The Father of Pan-Africanism'. He was buried here with all the honors of a State Head and lies.near the sea over which his great-great grandfather was carried away into slavery." Several folds and creases; still very good condition.<br/><br/> unknown books
1936307810New York: Viking 1936. First edition. 40 pp illustrated in color by the author. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's illustrated boards almost fine. Signed by the author's wife Jane Bouché on ffep. First edition. 40 pp illustrated in color by the author. 1 vols. 12mo. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK HIS WIFE'S COPY. The first Otto book in which Otto and his master Duke leave their little French town for Africa where they fight off attacking Arabs<br/><br/>Pène du Bois married Jane Michele Bouche of Manhattan daughter of artist Louis Bouche in 1943. They later divorced. Viking unknown books
2007RDUBOXF00afOxford 2007. Fine. Du Bois W.E.B. The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois. 19 Volumes. Gates Editor Henry Louis Jr.; Akyeampong Introduction Emmanuel. NY: Oxford 2007. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Warm grey cloth with bronze gilt lettering. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. In dust jacket protectors. Set is complete: Black Reconstruction in America The World and Africa and Color and Democracy The Negro Darkwater The Gift of Black Folk In Battle For Peace Africa The Souls of Black Folk Black Folk Then and Now Dusk of Dawn The Philadelphia Negro Worlds of Color John Brown Mansart Builds a School The Ordeal of Mansart The Suppression of the African Slave Trade Dark Princess The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois The Quest of the Silver Fleece. Oxford hardcover books
185154192New York: George P. Putnam 1851. 8vo pp. 6 72 2 2 ads 2 ads 6 ads on yellow paper; 5 plates; original brown cloth gilt-stamped upper cover; a few cracks in the cloth along the hinges neatly repaired with small strips of cellotape; otherwise a very good copy. An early reference work on gold coins from California and other states issued for collectors and those dealing in the money trade. The authors were assayers of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The first edition of this work issued in 1850 contained several samples of genuine California gold ore and is notably scarce. This revised edition was issued without the samples but contains new material on the California gold situation and California coins; Mormon coins; and other West Coast imprints. There are 5 handsome engraved plates at the end of the book showing gold coins from California and the west coast; Mormon coins; gold ingots; mining company issues; coins from Central America; and much more. The second half of the book written by Du Bois is devoted to ancient coins in the U.S. Mint's private collection including coins from the Roman Empire Persia the Byzantine era and more. This collection was formed in 1838 with Du Bois serving as its first curator. Cowan p. 76; Kuritz 217b; Sabin 21788. <br/><br/> George P. Putnam hardcover books
1864138211Neuchatel Switzerland: James Attinger 1864. Softcover. G Binding is faded but shows little wear pages and plates show a bit of age but are generally clear; hinges are pretty loose but all signatures are still holding. Maroon-brown stamped cloth gilt letters on front cover gilt & color decoration on front cover gilt top edges 3 pp. of text 32 color plates chiefly using primary colors on coats of arms. Text is in French. Appears to present brief information about the canton of Neuchatel Switzerland along with the coats of arms of its primary families in power. Authored by historians Louis-Alphonse de Mandrot and Gustave-Eugene DuBois-Dunilac. 3 pages of text preface the section of plates of coats of arms. Most pages contain 25 coats of arms with the family name appearing in tiny print underneath each one. Of particular interest to historians and genealogists with ties to Neuchatel. James Attinger paperback books
1701284027Paris: Coignard 1701. Second. hardcover. very good. Traduites en Francois. 2 volumes I and II only. Illustrated title pages. Thick 8vo full original mottled calf heavily gilt spines with burgundy leather labels crimson edges. Paris: Jean Baptiste Ciognard 1701. Second Edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Coignard unknown books
1936259037New York: Viking 1936. First edition. 40 pp illustrated in color by the author. 1 vols. 12mo. Publisher's illustrated boards light shelfwear in very good clipped dustjacket toned with chipping to edges. First edition. 40 pp illustrated in color by the author. 1 vols. 12mo. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Viking unknown books
190859691Atlanta GA: Atlanta U. Press 1908. First edition the Atlanta University Publications No. 13. 8vo. 156 pp. Illustrated from photographs plates plans. Preface: "Investigation into the social and physical condition of Negroes in cities . every phase of human life . presented in such shape as will encourage and help social reform." Not in Work. Blockson catalogue records only the 1970 reprint. Price on front wrapper inked through else very good. Original printed gray wrappers some erosion to the spine. #6539. <br/><br/> Atlanta U. Press unknown books
1920101736New York: Harcourt Brace and Howe 1920. First edition of the first of Du Bois' three autobiographies. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition. Written when he was 50 Darkwater is the first of Du Bois's three autobiographies and was followed by Dusk of Dawn: An Autobiography of a Race Concept and The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of its First Century. This work incorporates autobiographical information as well as essays spirituals and poems Harcourt, Brace and Howe hardcover books
