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

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, 1901. First 
Edition. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. 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. 
(#015975)        $7,500.00

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