Mansart Builds a School

New York: Mainstream Publishers, 1959.

Price: $4,500.00

Hardcover. First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, paper over the front hinge cracked, but the hinge is still tight, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by Du Bois to a fellow author: "For Van Wyck Brooks, W.E.B. Du Bois May 26, 1960." Du Bois' Brooklyn address is penciled below the inscription. Although the long careers of both Harvard-educated authors overlapped for many decades, Brooks and Du Bois apparently did not know one another well until relatively late in their lives. In 1948 Brooks made a very formal appeal to Du Bois in the Committee of One Thousand's efforts to fight the existence of HUAC. But over the following decade they evidently got to know each other much better; Brooks spoke at the 1958 installation of the Zorach bust of Du Bois at the Schomburg Collection. The second book in Du Bois' *Black Flame* trilogy.

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Item #108254 Mansart Builds a School. W. E. B. DU BOIS.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
birth name: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
born: 2/23/1868
died: 8/27/1963

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American sociologist, the most important black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. He helped create the National ASsociation for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and edited The Crisis, its magazine, from 1910 to 1934. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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