Sketches of Negro Life and History (In South Carolina). [Inscribed by the Author]

Chicago, Illinois: W. B. Conkey Company, 1929. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth without jacket, 280pp. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown. Wear and staining to boards with spine broken and title page partly detached; contents with some dog ears and pencil markings. Very good.. Asa H. Gordon’s Sketches of Negro Life and History (In South Carolina), inscribed “To: Miss Blondell Williams / From The Author / As of Dec. 25, 1928”. The title page indicates that Gordon was Professor of History at South Carolina State A. and M. College (now South Carolina State College) and the copyright an affiliation with the Industrial College, Georgia (now Savannah State University). Special contributors are Allen University President Dr. D. H. Sims, B. B. Barnwell, and B. E. Mays—likely Morehouse College President Benjamin Mays, who was then a PhD student at the University of Chicago. Chapters of Sketches include “The Black Man’s Burden,” “The Gifts of Womanhood in Ebony,” and “The New Negro Challenges the Old Order.” University of South Carolina reprinted this title in 1971. This is the only original copy we found in commerce at the time of writing.