[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED First Edition of Booker T. Washington's UP FROM SLAVERY
Charles Agvent
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Mon Feb 9 14:21:28 EST 2015
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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