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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. FIRST EDITION. RARE IN THE DUST JACKET.

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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. DU BOIS, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

8vo. Original navy cloth; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (spine panel darkened, chipping and short tears, a few separations along folds). Provenance: W.K. Pierce (ownership inscription dated 1920).

FIRST EDITION of Du Bois's companion volume to The Souls of Black Folk which includes essays on race, poems, and autobiographical prose. RARE IN THE DUST JACKET: According to American Book Prices Current, only one other copy with the dust jacket, a second printing, has sold at auction in the last 40 years.

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