The Black Jacobins
New York: The Dial Press, 1938.
First American edition. xvi, 328pp. Illustrated with fold-out map at rear. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with blind stamped front, gilt lettered spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to corners and spine ends, snag to cloth at head, pages toned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with toning, light soiling, edge wear with chipping to corners and spine ends and several short closed tears. Afro-Trinidadian historian and activist C.L.R. James' people's history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, a well-written Marxist reimagining of an often-ignored and denigrated revolt that inspired many later Black Power, Caribbean Studies, and anti-colonial thinkers and writers. Scarce.
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