[Rarebooks] FS - Up From Slavery 1st edition

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WASHINGTON, Booker T. /UP FROM SLAVERY An Autobiography/. Bound in 
vertically ribbed wine red cloth with gilt titling, and a photogravure 
frontispiece. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York City, 1901. 1st edition, 
hb cloth. 8vo, pp. ix, 330. Top edge gilt. Small, quite old, label 
affixed to top left of front pastedown: "Private Library of Sadie 
Sanborn Smith".

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was a black leader and 
educator. Shortly after emancipation, he began studies at the Hampton 
Institute, in Washington, DC, and became a teacher, writer and popular 
speaker on the problems of black Americans. In 1881, he was appointed 
Principal of the newly opened Tuskogee Institute, in Alabama, where he 
devised a curriculum to teach young black men and women practical skills 
useful in their lot in life. His autobiography is well written, often 
stirring, and has been in print since it was first published in 1901. 
Despite this, Washington was often decried by his own people, especially 
Du Bois, for appeasement and for his benign acceptance of the separation 
of the races.

The boards are bumped at the corners and a bit rubbed at the 
extremities. There is some soiling and scuffing to the cloth, with a
small abrasion or stain to the spine, just below the titling. The 
endpapers are a bit foxed and soiled, but they are tight and unmarked 
(save for the aforementioned label). The front hinge is cracked between 
the half title and the frontispiece. The tissue guard, protecting the 
frontispiece, is present, and the frontispiece, and the facsimile 
signature of Washington underneath, are in very good condition. The 
contents are unmarked, but there is occasional soiling from, one 
presumes, a grubby finger. The rear hinge is also cracked, between pp. 
266/267, but overall the binding is still reasonably tight, and the book 
may be opened, and handled with care, but without trepidation. Still a 
good copy of a scarce, and important, book.


Price:  $175.00.

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