Flight by White, Walter F - 1926

New York Ny: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good. 300 Pp + 4 Pp Ads At Rear. Red Cloth Printed In Orange, Orange-Red And Green. First Printing, With 1926 Date On Title Page. Spine Worn, Tiny Frays At Top Edges, And Lettering Weak; Front Hinge Broken Before Half-Title. Walter Francis White (1893 - 1955) Was A Civil Rights Activist Who Led The National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People (Naacp) For A Quarter Of A Century, 1929-1955, After Joining The Organization As An Investigator In 1918. He Directed A Broad Program Of Legal Challenges To Racial Segregation And Disfranchisement. He Was Also A Journalist, Novelist, And Essayist. He Graduated In 1916 From Atlanta University (Now Clark Atlanta University). In 1918, White Joined The Small National Staff Of The Naacp In New York At The Invitation Of James Weldon Johnson. He Acted As Johnson's Assistant National Secretary And Traveled To The South To Investigate Lynchings And Riots. Of Multiracial,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 300pp. + ads. Decorated maroon cloth. A few faint soil marks on the cloth, small smudge on front fly, else a very good copy with the text fresh and clean, lacking the dust jacket. White headed the NAACP for a quarter of a century. Warmly inscribed by White to author Theodore Stempfel: "For Theodore Stempfel, With the admiration and affection of his friend. Walter White." With Stempfel's attractive contemporary bookplate. Stempfel translated a number of works on the American "Turnerbund" movement, a gymnastic union with early roots in Germany, that in the 19th Century was a proponent of socialism and the abolition of slavery.