Apr 22, 2025 - Sale 2701

Sale 2701 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Up From Slavery, inscribed by the author.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1904.

Early reprint edition, octavo; inscribed by Washington "with kind wishes" and dated 1905 in Tuskegee, Alabama in ink on a preliminary blank; with the black-and-white frontispiece portrait; largely unopened in publisher's gilt-lettered maroon cloth, upper edge gilt (scattered thumbing; spine lightly sunned with some minor fraying at ends); 7 7/8 x 5 in.