[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Booker T. Washington UP FROM SLAVERY

[Charles Agvent]

WASHINGTON, Booker T. UP FROM SLAVERY. New York: Doubleday, Page & 
Company, 1913. Early Edition. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. 
Frontispiece portrait 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 INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front 
free endpaper to a prominent banker and book collector: "To/Mr. W. D. 
Vincent/with sincerest/regard of/Booker T. Washington/Dec. 3, 1913." 
Signed copies of this classic of African-American history are quite 
uncommon. A small tear to bottom blank margin of one leaf; 1998 
statement by a previous owner on the recto of the frontispiece stating 
the importance of the book on her grandfather; Vincent's bookplate on 
the front pastedown. Mild rubbing to the spine edges and tips with small 
frayed spot on spine edge and a few small frayed spots on rear cover 
with loss of cloth. Still Near Fine. (#021570)        $8,500

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