Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880 by Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt - 1935

New York: Russell & Russell, 1956. First Edition Thus. Cloth. Very good/good. The first edition of Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois from Russell Scholars' Classics, published in 1956, in the publisher's scarce dust jacket.. Octavo, [8], 746pp. Black cloth, title printed in silver on spine. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Dust along edges of text block, light soiling to endpapers. In the publisher's dust jacket, chipping along edges, closed tears to spine, archival tissue repair to hinge of spine, a scarce jacket with noted condition issues. The first edition of Black Reconstruction was published by Harcourt, Brace and Company of New York in 1935. While not widely read by historians upon it's release in 1935, scholars began to reevaluate the book in the 1970's, finding it "the foundational text of revisionist African American historiography." (Bilbija, 2011).

HARCOURT BRACE AND COMPANY, 1935-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. March 1938 second printing in black hardcover missing the jacket, light bump head and toe of spine previous owner's stamp to pastedowns. Tight binding text unmarked. d34 Please email for photos.

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. 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.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. 8vo (8.75" x 6"), black cloth over boards, silver author, title, and publisher at spine. Deckled edges. [10], 746 pp. Early ownership inscription at top of ffep: "James Wesley Ashfard[?] Jr." CONDITION: Very good-, extremities lightly rubbed, partial separation at lower hinge, occasional pencil and ink markings and annotations throughout. First edition of this pioneering work on the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by one of the most important thinkers and activists of the twentieth century. In the wake of censorship by the Encyclopedia Britannica of Du Bois's characterization of Reconstruction in an article he was asked to contribute on "the American negro," (MacDonald) this study restored "the chief witness in Reconstruction, the emancipated slave himself," to the historical record. Against the white scholarly consensus attributing "the faults and failures of Reconstruction to Negro ignorance and corruption," Du Bois made the… Read More