[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED First Edition of Booker T. Washington's UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901

[Charles Agvent]

One of the 60 fine new arrivals posted this week on our website as part 
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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 SIGNED 
by the author on the front free endpaper to "Booker T. 
Washington/Tuskegee Alabama/Jan. 25, 1902." Signed First Editions of 
this classic of African-American history are quite uncommon. Owner name 
in ink below the author's. Mild wear to the spine tips and corners with 
the spine edges rubbed. Near Fine.         $7,500.00

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