Up from slavery : an autobiography / by Booker T. Washington.

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First edition of this autobiography of one of the most significant Black public figures in the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.
Subjects:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Tuskegee Institute.
African Americans > Biography.
Educators > United States > Biography.
African American educators > Biography.
Enslaved persons > United States > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Education > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 19th century.
Autobiographies.
Authors' inscriptions > United States > Alabama > Tuskegee > 1906.
Authors' inscriptions.
Bookplates > United States > Michigan > 20th century.
Bookplates
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Authors' inscriptions
Authors' inscriptions.
Bookplates
Ownership and Custodial History:
copy 2: Printed bookplate on front paste-down: "This Book Belongs to S. B. McCracken [...]" (includes spaces for number, date and cost (left blank); this is Stephen Bromley McCracken (1824-1902), Michigan-based author and journalist); inscription in pencil on recto of front free end-paper: "S.B. McCracken. Mar. 20, 1901"; erased inscription in pencil above: "$1.50"[?]; inscription in pencil on verso of rear free end-paper: "Aug 11. 1906 : Brains, skill, dignity of work. One g[...] farmers"; inscription in pencil on page [1] (facing first page of chapter 1): "Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Alabama. Aug. 11. 1906."; bookseller's description, by Whitmore Rare Books, Pasadena, California, available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 64.
Binding Information:
copy 2: In publisher's red ribbed cloth; title in gilt to spine and front board; top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed.
Physical Description:ix, 1 unnumbered page, 330 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait (frontispiece) ; 20 cm
Format: Book

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