Deep River: An Interpretation of Negro Spirituals

by Howard Thurman

$250 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Mills College, CA: The Eucalyptus Press, 1945. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's blue paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board. Near Fine with light edge wear and toning to pages. Uncommon in the first edition, this was later reprinted by Harper & Brothers. Howard Thurman 1900-1981 was the first black dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University and co-founder of the Church for the

• Printing: first

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