Carter G. Woodson

The Negro in Our History [Lois Mailou Jones's Copy]

Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1931. Very Good / Good. Item #46759

Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1931. Sixth Edition (Further Revised and Enlarged). Large, thick octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in gilt pictorial dust jacket, original $4.00 price present on spine panel; [2],xxx,673pp.; halftone portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass, illus. throughout. Jacket heavily chipped and worn with loss along bottom edge of upper panel affecting text, front hinge starting to crack, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good example in a Good or better example only of the exceedingly rare and beautiful dust jacket. Pencil ownership signature of the late Black artist, educator and Associated Publishers contributor Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) to front free endpaper.

Price: $1,500.00