Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
by Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. Frontispiece, xx, [2], 3-331, [1] pages. Octavo. Publisher's dark green cloth; deckle edges; top edge gilt. Numerous half tone illustrations. Brief rubbing to extremities and dulled spine gilt lettering; a clean tight copy; with bookplate on front pastedown belonging to Julius Isaac Foust of Greensboro, North Carolina. Foust was the second president of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Very Good.
Biography of educator, orator, U.S. presidential advisor, and race leader, Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (HBCU) in Alabama. The biography, published a year after Washington's death, was co-written by Emmett Jay Scott (1873-1957), Washington's personal secretary, key adviser, and Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute, and Lyman Beecher Stowe (1880-1963), grandson and biographer of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. With a foreword by Robert Moton, Principal of Tuskegee Institute, and a preface by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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- Bookseller
- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3730574
- Title
- Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization
- Author
- Emmett J. Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
About the Seller
Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
About Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...