This title is considered to be Du Bois' magnum opus. His signature and ownership stamp is on the front free endpaper. Henry Guze founder of The American Academy of Psychotherapists and the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co?founder and former president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex. This book comes from the personal collection of noted doctor, professor and psychoanalyst Dr. 3 very small vintage ink splashes on bottom page edges book is about near fine. Pages lay tight and undisturbed seemingly in unread condition. Black panels are bright and clean, silver titles on backstrip are bright. Book is tight and clean quality-made with sturdy sewn binding.

who owned the publishing rights up until 1960 putting the printing of this book somewhere between 19. This edition was reprinted by arrangement of Harcourt Brace & Co. This is the uncommon Albert Saifer printing with no date printed on the copyright page other than 1935. 290 pgs in 14 essays w/Interpretive Notes. Du Bois used the term 'double consciousness', applying it to the idea that black people need 2 fields of vision at all times - firstly of how they view themselves, and, secondarily, how the world views them. Volume contains 14 essays on race, some first published in The Atlantic Monthly. First published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays & Sketches, is a seminal work & major cornerstone of African-American literature.

Du Bois (1868 - 1963), first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, 1909 co-founder of the Nat'l Assoc for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and, recipient of the 1958 Lenin Internat'l Peace Prize. Massachusetts born, American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer & editor, William E.B. Discoloration to front/rear covers verso. Softcover, illustrated by Mark Burckhardt/NF sound w/trace edge rubs & closed tear to lower front edge. Mark Burckhardt (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).

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