Rolling Stone: The Life and Adventures of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore.

LOWELL, Thomas. [W.E.B. Dubois; David Lloyd George].

$2,000.00

Item Number: 144351

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933.

Early printing of the definitive biography of Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Octavo, original cloth, illustrations from photographs and paintings by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by W.E.B. Dubois to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, “Many Happy Returns to ‘Lloyd George’ Nov. 5th 1933 from W.E.B.” W.E.B. Dubois wrote that “the destinies of mankind for a hundred years to come” were being negotiated in a “small room at the Hotel Crillon.” The small room he was referring to was at the Paris Peace Conference and the people in the room were Prime Minister David Lloyd George, President Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau of France, and Orlando of Italy. W.E.B. and Lloyd George’s first encounter occurred in Versailles, with Du Bois petitioning to address the Peace Conference. His efforts were unsuccessful, but he managed to speak to the first conference of the League of Nations in 1921, representing the NAACP. Du Bois developed a relationship with Lloyd George, writing often of issues of racial intolerance and racial inequality. Du Bois often sent the former Prime Minister books and articles that he thought would interest him. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. An excellent and unusual association copy.