DU BOIS, W. E. B.

The Souls of Black Folk. Essays and Sketches. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, cloth; slight separation along front hinge; contemporary ownership signature. London, 1905 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of Du Bois's best known work, considered to be one of the most influential works of prose by an African-American. This 1905 English edition is bound from the American sheets of the 1903 First American edition. Somewhere between 500 and 750 copies were issued, which makes it considerably scarcer than its American counterpart. LCP, Negro History 238; Blockson Collection 4028 (Third edition); Work, page 589.