FAULKNER'S 1735 EDITION OF SWIFT'S WORKS, THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND
[SWIFT, Jonathan]. Works. Dublin, 1735. Four volumes.
First collected edition, containing the definitive edition of Gulliver's Travels, with four frontispiece portraits and five engraved maps and plates, very handsomely bound. $8500.
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"THE PREMIERE ARCHITECT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE U.S."
DU BOIS, W. E. Burghardt and DILL, Augustus Granville, eds. Negro American Artisan. Atlanta, 1912 (i.e. 1913).
First edition of a defining work in the influential series of conferences and publications directed by Du Bois, who created, at Atlanta University, the "first American school of sociology," this key work particularly asserting "Du Bois' theory of the talented tenth," developed in his 1903 essay that helped forge the Harlem Renaissance by arguing for Black education that encouraged "intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is," very scarce in original wrappers. $1800.
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"MEDGAR'S DEATH MADE ONE POINTCLEAR… I HAD TO CHANGE MISSISSIPPI"
(MEDGAR EVERS) EVERS, Charles. Evers. New York and Cleveland, 1971.
First edition of Charles Evers' complicated memoir of his brother, his explosive rage at Medgar Ever's murder, and his own resolve to continue his brother's work, noting—"racists can’t kill all of us who believe in freedom"—inscribed by him on the title page, "Thanks for reading my book, Charles Evers, Mayor, Fayette, Miss. 4-5-89." $1250.
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