Up From Slavery: An Autobiography of Booker T. Washington (First Edition) by Washington, Booker T - 1901

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE with 1901 date on title page, correct publisher imprint, and lacking mention of Washington's first book on title page (several sellers erroneously claim that the first issue had mention of his earlier book while later printings did not; it's the exact opposite as the first issue was the only one not to have mention of his first book; in addition there was a comma after 1901 on copyright page until at least 1903 so that's a bogus point as well.) 

Original cloth, lettered in gilt.

Top edge gilt.

Frontispiece. 

330 pages.

Good-. Tight binding; light foxing to pages else clean; 25ct written in big letters on front endpaper; covers have some wear and soil/stains; lacking the extremely rare dust jacket.

The autobiography 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. 

The book was a best-seller, and remained the most popular African American autobiography until that of Malcolm X. In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. 3 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and in 1999 it was also listed by the conservative Intercollegiate Review as one of the "50 Best Books of the Twentieth Century". [Wikipedia].