Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

First Thus. 746 pp., letterpress on commercial stock in black cloth-covered boards. No dusk jacket. 8vo. Very good. Only minor shelf wear, one small abrasion to cloth at head of spine. Binding just beginning to loosen towards middle of text block, but holding. [2347]

A nice, relatively early edition of Du Bois's magnum opus. This copy is from an uncommon edition, reprinted by the Philadelphia-based publisher Albert Saifer by arrangement with Harcourt, Brace & Co., who held the rights from the book's first publication in 1935 until 1960; with no date given other than the 1935 Harcourt publication, the present edition would have been issued sometime between those two dates.