What the Negro Thinks by Moton, Robert Russa

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.

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.

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.

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.