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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by Washington, Booker T
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. First Edition. Very Good/Fair. First edition, first issue; in the original dust jacket with the "Second Edition" plug at the bottom of the front panel. Bound in publisher's ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt, gilt topstain. Very Good with Cloth a little darkened at spine end edges, edge-worn and lightly marked. Boards a bit splayed, contemporary former owner name to front free endpaper and hinge there slightly exposed. Pages toned. In the very scarce dust jacket, of which the extant portions have been laid down on similarly colored paper which replaces most of spine, lower edge of rear panel and flap edges. The famous African American educator, orator, and author's autobiography.
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
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140942997
- Title
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Author
- Washington, Booker T
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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