UP FROM SLAVERY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901. Original red publisher's cloth, with title stamped in gilt on spine and upper cover. Deckled edges. Half title and portrait frontis [original tissue guard]. [2], ix, [1 blank], 330 pp. Occasional mild foxing. Very Good.
Washington chronicles his early life in slavery, his eventual emancipation, and his career as first President of Tuskegee University and the leading black educator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. 3 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century,
FIRST EDITION. LCP 10970. Blockson 10188, Commented Bibliography 51. Item #41802
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