UP FROM SLAVERY
by WASHINGTON, Booker T
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- A small tear to bottom blank margin of one leaf; 1998 statement by a previous owner on the recto of the frontispiece stating the
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. Early Edition. Hardcover. 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. 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.
Synopsis
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave on a Virginia farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as his autobiography. Louis R. Harlan , born in Clay County, Mississippi, in 1922, is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Separate and Unequal (University of North Carolina Press, 1958) and of a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington (Oxford University Press, 1972, 1983). He is the editor, with Raymond W. Smock, of The Booker T. Washington Papers (13 vols., University of Illinois Press, 1972-84). He has been awarded the Beveridge Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Washington.
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- Bookseller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021570
- Title
- UP FROM SLAVERY
- Author
- WASHINGTON, Booker T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - A small tear to bottom blank margin of one leaf; 1998 statement by a previous owner on the recto of the frontispiece stating the
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Signed, African-American History, African-American Literature, Rare, Autobiography, High Spot, Booker T Washington, Black Literature, Slavery
- Bookseller catalogs
- High Spot; Black Literature; African-American History;
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Charles Agvent
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About the Seller
Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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