Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 244

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(EDUCATION.) Washington, Booker T. Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students. Frontispiece portrait. xii, 115 pages. 16mo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; minimal dampstaining. New York, 1898
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First edition of Washington's first book, preceded only by an 18-page pamphlet, "Daily Resolves," published in 1896. Features an introduction by Washington's longtime collaborator T. Thomas Fortune, also a freed slave.