"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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"THE GREATEST MASTERPIECE OF ENGLISH 18TH-CENTURY CRITICISM"
JOHNSON, Samuel. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London, 1783. Four volumes.
1783 edition of Johnson's celebrated Lives of the Poets—"the only edition of importance after the first. It is the only edition which Johnson revised, and the last he lived to see"—with engraved frontispiece portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds, a splendid four-volumes in scarce contemporary polished calf. $1750.
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“FORMS WHICH CREEP, SCOUR THE OCEANS, OR PERFORATE THE CLOUDS…”
LE CORBUSIER. (JEANNERET-GRIS, Charles-Édouard). LÉGER, Fernand, et al. Formes et Vie. Paris, 1951. Two volumes.
First editions of the complete two-issue run of this important arts journal, featuring the works of Le Corbusier and Fernand Léger, as well as other noted artists of the day, richly illustrated. $500.
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