[Rarebooks] FS: Booker T. Washington's classic UP FROM SLAVERY, beautiful First Edition, 1901
Charles Agvent
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Sun Mar 26 13:35:08 EST 2006
From our latest Catalogue--AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC, HISTORY, & LITERATURE--now
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WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, Page &
Co. 1901. First Edition. Illustrated with a photogravure 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. Touch of
sunning and rubbing. Lovely, about Fine copy. $500.00
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