UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography

Washington, Booker T.

Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Co, New York, 1901

Beschreibung

First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington's dogged hard work and personal brand of bootstrapping, while sometimes criticized by contemporaries such as W.E.B. Du Bois, was an inspiration to many. His advocacy for the rights and education of Black Americans discussed in this his most famous work made him one of the most influential forces in the post-Reconstruction era. UP FROM SLAVERY was ranked third on The Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and until the publication of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X it remained the best-selling African American autobiography of all time (Alridge 270). A handsome copy of a landmark book. 8'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge machine deckle. Black-and-white pictorial frontispiece. Variant with "Author of" phrase on title page. x, 330 pages, including index. Ink owner name, dated Dec 25 1901 (year of publication), to front fly leaf. Touches of rubbing at extremities. Slight lean. Some cracking to gutter of early leaf (still firm), else clean and sound throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 50278

Bibliografische Details

Titel: UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography

Verlag: Doubleday, Page & Co, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near fine.

Auflage: 1. Auflage