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DU BOIS, W.E.B.
The Souls of Black Folk.
Portrait frontispiece. 264 pp. 8vo,
original black cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine; tips lightly rubbed, inner
hinges repaired; gilt bright and readable; some of the pages have been carelessly opened,
still an attractive copy.
Chicago: McClurg, 1903
[800/1,200]
SECOND EDITION
,
ONE OF THREE PRINTINGS IN
1903.
A key work in the Du Bois’
canon, and quite possibly his best. Blockson 101, #52; Partington 2333a.
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“DIE YOU LITTLE BASTARD...”
N.Y.P.D.
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(CRIME.)
WANTED DEAD,
For the Murder of Clifford Glover.
Pig Thomas Shea.
“Home-made” pic-
torial Broadside wanted poster with the
images of Thomas Shea and 10 year old
Clifford Glover.
Queens, New York, 1978
[700/1,000]
A RARE SURVIVAL OF THIS HOME
-
MADE
“
WANTED POSTER
”
INVOLVING A FAMOUS
NEW YORK CITY POLICE SHOOTING OF A
BLACK CHILD
.
This poster was created in the
neighborhood where 10 year old Clifford
Glover was shot in the back by plainclothes cop
Thomas Shea. On April 28, 1973, Glover
and a friend, Add Armstead were walking
along a street in Queens when a car drove up
and one of two white men pointed a gun at
them. The pair ran, and one of the cops fired,
fatally wounding Clifford Glover, ten years old.
An open walkie-talkie to the dispatcher
recorded Shea saying “Die you little bastard”
and a few moments later, a whoop and “the
good guys won!.” As air-tight a case as the
District Attorney’s Office was given, Shea was
tried and acquitted.
