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300 ● DU BOIS, W. E. B. Hand-Book Colored Work in Dioceses of the South.
For Practical Purposes, Compiled by Elizabeth H.B. Roberts. Illustrated. 105 pages.
Small 8vo, original printed gray wrappers; numerous corrections in the text and a note on
the title-page presumably in the hand of the compiler.
[Philadelphia]: Women’s Auxiliary of the Board of Missions, circa 1915 [400/600]
AN UNRECORDED W.E .B. DU BOIS “B” ITEM. An exhaustive study of the work of colored
women in the churches throughout the South. Du Bois’s name appears following a five page
addendum at the end of the book, signed in type atypically as “Burghardt Du Bois. This short
section is headed “Questions suggested for classes.” Not observed by Partington.
301 ● DU BOIS, W. E. B. Black Folk Then and Now, An Essay in the History
and Sociology of the Negro Race. 401 pages. Large thick 8vo, original cloth in dust
jacket. An exemplary copy, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY DU BOIS ON THE FRONT FREE END-
PAPER. New York, 1939 [5,000/7,500]
A survey study of the Negro race, from Biblical times down through the present. Du Bois says
in his Preface that he has been working toward an Encyclopedia of the Negro race, and that this
volume is a sort of fore-runner to that work which is in progress.
302 ● DU BOIS, W. E. B. Souls of Black Folk. 265 pages. Small 8vo, original cloth-
backed patterned paper-covered boards. SLIP WITH LIMITATION, SIGNED BY DU BOIS TIPPED
TO THE FRONT FREE END-PAPER . New York: Blue Heron Press, 1953 [600/800]
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