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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, no dust jacket. First edition thus with single date of 1929 and publisher's colophon present on the copyright page. Black cloth boards with gilt text to front and spine. Only issues to boards is a small dent on the back board. Original owner's name signed on front end page but the as well as rear pastedown (Sallie E. Robinson) along with a 1930 date. Pages are clean and binding is good, no other handwriting noted, no bookplates. Exterior page edges shows some foxing and spotting. See photos.
What the Negro Thinks [Black Activism] by Moton, Robert Russa (1867-1940) - 1942
by Moton, Robert Russa (1867-1940)
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What the Negro Thinks [Black Activism]
by Moton, Robert Russa (1867-1940)
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Garden City: Garden City Pub. Co., 1942. Reprint Edition. Fair/No Dust Jacket.
Tan cloth with brown stamped titles. Bindings good and text clean; heavy external wear with rubbed corners and loss of spine bands. 8vo; 8 inches tall; vii pages, 2 leaves, 267 pages. Excerpt from What the Negro Thinks: 'This volume aims to place on record some facts concern ing a phase of the Negro problem of which, up to this time, little has been known outside of the race; that is, what the Negro, himself, thinks of the experiences to which he is subjected because of his race and colour. The subject has lately excited a growing interest, especially among those who would approach the problem of the Negro's presence in America with sympathy and under standing.'
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Robert Russa Moton was an American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935. [wiki]
Tan cloth with brown stamped titles. Bindings good and text clean; heavy external wear with rubbed corners and loss of spine bands. 8vo; 8 inches tall; vii pages, 2 leaves, 267 pages. Excerpt from What the Negro Thinks: 'This volume aims to place on record some facts concern ing a phase of the Negro problem of which, up to this time, little has been known outside of the race; that is, what the Negro, himself, thinks of the experiences to which he is subjected because of his race and colour. The subject has lately excited a growing interest, especially among those who would approach the problem of the Negro's presence in America with sympathy and under standing.'
Background Information:
Robert Russa Moton was an American educator and author. He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute. In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute, after the death of founder Booker T. Washington, a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935. [wiki]
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- Date Published 1942
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What the Negro Thinks
by Robert Russa Moton
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What the Negro Thinks
by Moton, Robert Russa
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New York: Doubleday Doran, 1930. 267pp. Black cloth boards, titles on spine faded green, and in gold on front board. Binding secure, shelfwear to spine ends, edges, and corners, with boards visible through cloth in places at board edges. Previous owner's name in ink on FFEP. Pages otherwise toned but clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is missing pieces of spine, and has smaller missing sections at top and bottom edge of front and back panels. Jacket it toned, and front panel has split from spine, but original title is intact on front flyleaf. Moton's book prefigures the rise of the American civil rights movement, and records the thoughts of the man who succeeded Booker T. Washington in leadership at Tuskegee Institute. . Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo.
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WHAT THE NEGRO THINKS.
by MOTON, Robert Russa
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London,, 1929. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Neat name on front endpaper of one, Grace A. Tann, dated 1929, otherwise clean, very good.. 8vo. pp vii, 267. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered gilt at the spine.
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What the Negro Thinks
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Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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