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Dark Princess - W.E.B. Du Bois First Edition, Harcourt, Brace and Company 1928 Brown cloth stamped in orange, pp. [viii], 311, [1]; Very Good condition with light rubbing to edges and front panel, some small splits to cloth at fore-edge and rear tail edge, rear joint slightly rolled, light soil to endpapers, lacking the rare dust jacket. DuBois' second novel set in the 1920s, which DuBois described as a "romance with a message". DuBois found much of the low-comedy, sex, and violence present in other Harlem Renaissance works distasteful, and wrote this Bildungsroman of a propaganda novel with the intention of putting the Harlem Renaissance back on the right track of virtue, art, and politics. The work follows the romance between an Indian princess and a sensitive Hampton-educated black American, modeled after DuBois himself, presenting a vision of proletarian identity and international unity for the darker races of the world. (Blockson 5108, Levering-Lewis)

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A little rubbing along the edges of the boards, else a fine and bright copy in a fine example of the rare dust jacket with the slightest of age-toning and an old, faint pencil price on the spine. One of two novels written by Du Bois, this one about an African-American medical doctor who can't secure an internship because of his color. "In passionate revolt he flees from America. One day in Berlin... he meets the Dark Princess, an exquisite Indian woman of noble birth. Through her he is made aware of a movement among the dark races for self-expression and self-determination, and becomes involved in an adventure of such magnitude that it absorbs his energies on his return to America." Only the third jacketed copy we've seen in 40 years.