Burnside Rare Books

From Superman to Man

Rogers, J.A.

[np]: J.A. Rogers, [1917].

First edition. 128 pp. w/ publisher's announcement tipped-in to last page's margin. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with black lettering. Very Good+ with slightly soiled cloth, light rubbing along edges. Rare.

The Jamaican-American writer's first book, a self-published attack on racist ideas about Black people in the form of a series of fictional dialogues. He would go on to become the editor of Marcus Garvey's newspaper Daily Negro Times and one of the best-known advocates of "The Great Black Man" theory of history. Fiercely independent, he was self-educated, his many works all self-financed and self-published. Item #140943451

Price: $3,500.00