[Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of UP FROM SLAVERY with signed slip from Booker T. Washington

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, Page &
Co.  1901.  First  Edition.   Publisher's  gilt-decorated  red  cloth;
illustrated  with  a  frontispiece  portrait  of  Washington.  Classic
turn-of-the-century  autobiography  by  the   successor  to  Frederick
Douglass  as  the foremost American black leader of his  time.  Born a
slave,  Washington  founded  Tuskegee Institute,  becoming  its  first
president,  at the age of 25. This copy with a small (3-3/8" x 2-1/8")
piece  of  paper SIGNED by the author and dated 17 Feb. 1906  laid  in
loosely.  Near  owner name to top of front endpaper. Touch of wear  to
spine tips. Near Fine                                          $850.00


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