Harcourt, Brace

    W.E.B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn, first edition, 1940

    American Literature

    Du Bois (W.E. Burghardt) Dusk of Dawn:

    £475


    An essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
    New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1940.

    First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.

    An important work, regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology. The title refers to his hope that African Americans were passing out of the darkness of racism into an era of greater equality.