The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches

by W.E.B. DuBois

Seventh edition.  Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1907. 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Dark brown covers show commensurate wear and dirt.  Gilt text is clear and bright, blind tooled cover borders.  
• Boards show some wear, with bumps, marks, and edgewear.  Corners are bumped and frayed, with exposed board.  
• Spine has gilt text and is faded, with crushed and frayed ends.
• Binding is secure.  
• Ex libris book inscribed by owner on front pastedown.
• Endpapers and feps have some light staining, with bookseller marks in pencil at rear.  Please see photographs for details of condition.  
• Frontispiece is present.   
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Acid stain darkens pages 204-205.  Please see photograph.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges, with gilt along head. 
• PS2022.0420

265 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches.

The Seventh Edition of W.E.B. duBois' seminal work on the lives and experience of Black Americans.  Following the text are several pages of review comments as they appeared in periodicals at the time.  

PROVENANCE: Alverda V. Sipple, who inscribed the inside cover with her name and address, was enrolled as a student at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1912-1913 academic year.  

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