The Negro in Pennsylvania: a Study in Economic History. A Thesis Submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D.

Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Wrappered issue. Octavo (23cm); printed buff card wrappers; 250pp. Straight and clean, with some mild creasing to wrapper edges and a few page margins; Very Good. We have noted at least a few copies over the years in cloth, presumably issued simultaneously, but the wrappered issue appears to have constituted most of the print run.

Wright (b.1891) was the first African-American doctoral graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning field of Sociology. He was later President of Wilberforce University and a Bishop in the A.M.E. Church. His "Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church" (1916) remains a standard reference for A.M.E. biography. This work was reprinted in 1969 (Negro Universities Press), but the first edition is infrequent in commerce.