[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Booker T. Washington First Edition UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, Page & 
Company, 1901. First Edition. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. 
Frontispiece portrait with printed signature of Washington. Classic 
turn-of-the-century autobiography, a testament to the virtues of hard 
work and unrelenting effort, 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: "Booker T. Washington/April 22, 1901." Signed First 
Editions of this classic of African-American history are quite uncommon. 
Owner name in pencil above the author's signature and also on the front 
pastedown. Mild rubbing to the spine edges and tips. Near Fine. 
(#018518)        $7,500.00

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