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The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington by Washington, Booker T.]; Riley, Benjamin Franklin; - 1916

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The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington by Washington, Booker T.]; Riley, Benjamin Franklin; - 1916

The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington

by Washington, Booker T.]; Riley, Benjamin Franklin;

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New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+.

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, (1916).


SECOND EDITION [i.e. printing].


Original cloth.


Illustrated.


301 pages + ads.


Very Good in Good Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages; onionpaper list attached to front endpaper; moderate wear; dust jacket is a bit worn with small chips and tears along edges. 

A biography of Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), describing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama-to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. 

Very scarce in dust jacket.

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  • Bookseller LaCelle Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Good+
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher New York: Fleming H. Revell Company
  • Date Published 1916
  • Keywords BLACK BIOGRAPHY,AFRICAN AMERICAN,AMERICANA

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The Life and Times of Booker T. Washington

by Washington, Booker T. - Riley, B.F

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  • Hardcover
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New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Covers the last years of Washington's life. Index. Illustrated with photo frontispiece. Binding is cloth boards.
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