Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

by Booker T. Washington

$12,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1901. 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

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