Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 314

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T. With the Cooperation of Robert E. Clark The man Farthest Down. 390 pages. 8vo, later full black morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards; dark shadow at pages 148-149 where a piece of paper was placed. Garden City: Doubleday & Page, 1912

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a presentation copy with a fine association:"To Miss S. Helen Porter with best wishes from Mr. and Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Xmas, 1913." Susan Helen Porter was the pedagogy teacher at Tuskegee and a close friend of Washington and his wife. Porter's correspondence with Washington is often cited in the Booker T. Washington Papers.