HIS DAY IS MARCHING ON: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. An intimate portrait of the civil rights icon written by his second wife. Includes accounts of the McCarthy era, his talks with Khrushchev and Mao, and his friendship with Nkrumah and final move to Ghana. Octavo: 384 p. Original decorative brown cloth-covered boards over a black cloth spine, with gilt titles. Some general rubbing to the dust jacket, with a bit of light sun fading along the spine and tiny chip to the spine heel; otherwise very good. (Inventory #: 74758)