Product Description
Dark Princess - W.
E.
B.
Du Bois First Edition, Harcourt, Brace and Company 1928 The second novel from the pioneering sociologist and chief architect of the civil rights movement, which he described as a "romance with a message", complete with its exceedingly rare dust jacket, in addition to the one other copy on the market at the time of listing, I trace only one other jacketed example appearing at auction.
Brown cloth stamped in orange, pp.
[viii], 311, [1]; VG- condition book with light dampstaining to head edge and the head margin of much of the text, though generally quite inconspicuous, binding a tad cocked, front hinge starting, with a neat Christmas gift inscription penned to the ffep accompanied by two wreath stickers; in the rare dust jacket in VG- condition with a one inch tear to the front head joint, a two inch closed tear to the front tail joint which then cuts across the spine, a half inch tear to the rear head joint, with some minor chipping to spine ends and fore-edge corners, faint dampstaining to head edge and along spine, toning and light soil to exterior DuBois found much of the low-comedy, sex, and violence present in other Harlem Renaissance works distasteful, and wrote this bildungsroman of a propaganda novel with the intention of putting the Harlem Renaissance back on the right track of virtue, art, and politics.
The work follows the romance between an Indian princess and a sensitive, educated black American, modeled after DuBois himself, presenting a vision of proletarian identity and international unity for the darker races of the world.
[Blockson 5108, Levering Lewis]
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