W.E. Burghardt Du Bois

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

New York: S.A. Russell Company, 1956. Harbor Scholars' Classics Edition. Hardcover. 746p. A black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. The cloth at the top of the spine is snagged, and the corners are barely rubbed through. Light dampstaining along the edges, most visibly on the endpapers. Text otherwise unmarked and binding secure for normal handling. Item #200226

A scarce history of post-Civil War Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois. This is the first Russell edition from 1956; the first edition was published in 1935.

Price: $750.00