[Rarebooks] FS: Signed First Edition of UP FROM SLAVERY

[Charles Agvent]

UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington
Doubleday New York 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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