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Working with the Hands: Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery", Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
by Booker T. Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. Cloth. Very Good +. The May 1904 correct 1st edition of this very clean copy of Booker T. Washington's sequel to his seminal "Up from Slavery" (1901). Tight and VG+ to Near Fine in its wine-red cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Just a touch of light wear at the front panel's upper fore-edge, otherwise very sharp. And internally no writing or markings of any kind. Octavo, top-edge gilt, deckled fore and bottom-edges. Original tissue-guard still protecting the frontispiece photograph of "Mr. Washingfton in His Office at Tuskegee"
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21085
- Title
- Working with the Hands: Being a Sequel to "Up from Slavery", Covering the Author's Experiences in Industrial Training at Tuskegee
- Author
- Booker T. Washington
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- rare African-American autobiographies, rare Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, rare histories of the Tuskegee Institute
- Bookseller catalogs
- African-American;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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