The Negro Races: A Sociological Study (Volume I), Jerome Dowd — 1st Edition

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The Negro Races: A Sociological Study (Volume I), Jerome Dowd — 1st Edition

Name: The Negro Races: A Sociological Study (Volume I), Jerome Dowd — 1st Edition
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Publication: New York, The Macmillan Company, 1907

Formatting: 8vo, pp. [xii], 493.

Condition Report: Very Good. The original reddish-brown publisher's cloth remains notably robust and bright, with sharp corners and only the faintest traces of shelf-wear to the spine tips. The gilt titling to the spine is exceptionally bold and unoxidised, and the blind-stamped ruling to the boards is distinct. The binding is firm, tight, and square, with no cracking to the hinges, suggesting the volume has seen very little circulating use. Internally, the pages are generally clean and crisp, though there are prominent purple cancellation stamps from St. Deiniol's Library on the front free endpaper and a preliminary leaf. The textblock edges exhibit minor age-toning, with the fore-edge remaining untrimmed as issued. Overall, an unusually fresh and structurally sound copy that presents very well despite the historical institutional markings.

Catalogue Note: First Edition, Volume I. Although explicitly designated as Volume I on the title page, this text stands as an independent early sociological work, with Dowd's subsequent volume not appearing until 1914.

This particular copy holds a highly fascinating institutional provenance, bearing the cancellation stamps of St. Deiniol's Library in Hawarden. Now known as Gladstone's Library, this esteemed institution was founded by the four-time British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1889. The prominent purple stamps confirm its formal deaccession from this historic residential library.

The 1907 American first edition of this work is undeniably scarce on the current open market, particularly when found in such well-preserved original cloth, as institutional copies of this era frequently suffer from heavy rebinding or severe handling wear.

Published in 1907, Jerome Dowd's The Negro Races: A Sociological Study represents a comprehensive, early 20th-century anthropological and sociological examination of African peoples. Focussing specifically on Central and South Africa, the Sudan, and the Sahara Desert, this first volume aims to categorise the environments, cultural customs, and social structures of varied groups, including the Pygmies, Bushmen, and numerous West African societies. While the methodologies and language inherently reflect the racial attitudes and sociological frameworks of its era, Dowd's work remains a crucial historiographical artifact. It offers modern researchers significant insight into the development of early American sociological thought, the academic perspective on race, and the intellectual history of global ethnography at the turn of the century.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Jerome Dowd

Book Publisher: The Macmillan Company

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: History

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 493

Book Publication Year: 1907

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Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: New York, United States

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