first edition Softcover
1939 · Berkeley
by Du BOIS, Cora
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. 151pp. Illustrated. Folding map. Canvas spine with print oak tag wrappers. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist on the front fly else about fine. Important study and likely the first publication by Du Bois, an important cultural anthropologist who maintained an open lesbian relationship with the artist and designer Jeanne Taylor, who she met when they both served in the OSS in WWII. (Inventory #: 459487)