first edition Hardcover
1903 · Chicago
by Du Bois, W.E.B. [William Edward Burghardt DuBois]
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. Printed on August 1, 1903, less than four months after the first printing. Accurately, this is the third printing of the first edition. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine, front cover and top edge stamped in gilt. Front cover ruled in blind. Light wear to extremities. Slight foxing to front endpapers. Chapters introduced with excerpts of poems and bars of music. 5 1/2 x 8 inches. 264 pages. Images available on request. (Inventory #: 9029803)