[Rarebooks] FS: Fine First Edition of Booker T. Washington's UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901
Charles Agvent
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Thu Feb 10 08:38:30 EST 2011
WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.,
1901. First Edition. Original red cloth. 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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