The Study of the Negro Problems.

DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt.

$9,800.00

Item Number: 145402

Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1898.

Rare first edition of this early sociological essay from Du Bois. Octavo, original wrappers. In very good condition with toning, a couple closed tears to the front panel, and some loss to the edges of the wrapper. A rare and unique piece. No other copies are indicated to have ever sold at auction.

"Undoubtedly the most important modern African-American intellectual, Du Bois virtually invented modern African-American letters and gave form to the consciousness animating the work of practically all other modern African-American intellectuals to follow… he left Americans—black and white—a legacy of intellectual tools, a language with which they might analyze their present and imagine a future" (ANB).