Description
Author: David Levering Lewis
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Edition: First Owl Book Edition, 1994 (First thus, after 1993 hardcover)
Format: Paperback
Condition: Very Good+; tight binding, clean interior, light edge/surface wear typical of a handled paperback.
Signed: Yes — signed and personally inscribed by David Levering Lewis on the half-title page to the same recipients as your signed hardcover copy (dated 5/24/17).
Description:
Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is the monumental first volume of David Levering Lewis’s definitive life of W.E.B. Du Bois—scholar, activist, co-founder of the NAACP, and one of the most influential intellectual and moral forces of the 20th century.
This paperback copy was signed and warmly inscribed by Lewis during a 2017 appearance, making it highly desirable for collectors of African American history, civil rights scholarship, and Pulitzer-level literary biography.
Page Count: approx. 735 pages (typical for the Owl trade paperback issue; includes index and bibliography).
Protection: Ships in archival sleeve.


