Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
Rare 1975 Edition of this version of the book (only preceded by the original 1928 edition)). This copy is GOOD; the text is clear, bright, but with small marks and bits of marginalia; also previous owner's name top FEP; binding is tight. No jacket, the covers are VG, intact, including color and design, but slightest wear on corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. All shipments within the U.S. sent with Tracking. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES
First printing. Boards show some overall wear, especially to corners and spine ends; scraping to bottom of rear board. Binding tight; pages clean with some faint staining and slight bumping to the top of a few pages in the 20s (see photos). Bookshop ticket at bottom of rear endpaper, from the Book Shop, in Greensboro, N.C. (The building is long gone, alas.) Du Bois's second novel and last for nearly three decades; critics didn't care for it at the time, but later he characterized it as his favorite work. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. 312 pages. U.S. buyers, contact me for a possible discount!
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)
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.
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.
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.
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