Putting the Most Into Life by Washington, Booker T - 1906

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.

Hardback. New.

NY: Crowell, 1906. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 36. Frontis portrait. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. A little foxing on title, donor's presentation on flyleaf, cover little scuffed and bumped at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. Advice for students.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1906. First Edition. 8vo. 35, [1] pp. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt decoration to front cover & gilt lettering to spine & front cover. Minor rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy. Booker T. Washington believed a religious life was key to freedom, usefulness and honor, as he wrote in this book. "Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this ... ... My observation has taught me that the people who stand for the most in the educational and commercial world and in the uplifting of the people are in some real way connected with the religious life of the people among whom they reside.This being true we ought to make the most of our religious life ...

New York, New York,: Thomas L. Crowell Co, 1906. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 1906 Thomas L. Crowell FIRST Edition/First printing of this slim volume. With an EXTRAORDINARY & RARE INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE: "To my friend, Alex Pool, on his graduation from Hopkinsville Public School, B.T.W. 1906" In GOOD condition alas with water damage along the top boards with seeping stains along the tops but NOT affecting any text. The fontispiece has Washington's picture with the tissue paper present. The gilt edges on the top are bright as well. One of a kind!

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell and Company, 1906. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Offsetting to front fly from jacket flaps else fine in a near fine example of the rare printed dustwrapper with two shallow chips. A collection of Washington's "week-end talks" for students of Tuskegee Institute. An attractive and scarce little book designed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, only the second copy we've seen in jacket, and by far the better of the two.