[Rarebooks] FS:First Edition of UP FROM SLAVERY Inscribed by Booker T. Washington

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON,  Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday  1901.
First  Edition.  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 of his best
known  book  is  INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the free  front  endpaper  to
"Mrs. A. H. Hayward,/with kind wishes of/Booker T. Washington/Nov. 19,
1901."  Books inscribed by Washington are genuinely scarce. Adding  to
this  copy's desirability is the early date of the inscription and the
condition  of the book. Mild sunning and rubbing along edges of spine.
Near Fine                                                     $4000.00

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