THE ROMANCE OF THE MILKY WAY AND OTHER STUDIES AND STORIES
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1905. First Edition. Octavo, xiii, 209 pages. In Good plus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with yellow accents and black lettering on the spine and front board. Boards have significant fraying along the spine and fore corners, head edge of spine is torn away, a small dent along the rear fore edge, chipping and rubbing wear along the fore edges, a stain over the title on the front board, and age toning along the edges. Textblock has the bookplate of prominent civil rights leader Arthur B. Spingarn on the front pastedown, splitting along the gutter from page 88-153, a tear on page 114, pencil mark on the rear end page, and age toning along the edges. Shelved in Room C.
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Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $150
NOTES
Arthur Barnette Spingarn, born March 28th 1878, was an American civil rights leader. Spingarn was one of few White Americans who supported the demands for racial justice being voiced by W. E. B. Du Bois, in contrast to the gradualist views of Booker T. Washington. He protested the racial discrimination treatment of African Americans in the US military, and served as head of the legal committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and was one of its vice presidents from 1911. He died in New York City on December 1, 1971.