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Working With The Hands; Being A Sequel To "Up From Slavery" Covering The Author's Experiences in Industrial Training At Tuskegee
by Washington, Booker T
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- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very good. The first edition of Working With The Hands by Booker T. Washington, published in 1904.. Octavo, x, 246pp. Maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover, light wear to covers. The first printing, published "May, 1904" on copyright page. Top edge gilt, uncut fore-edge. Solid text block, thumb marks to front endpapers, text block free of notable wear. Complete with frontispiece portrait (with tissue guard) and 31 full page photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Previous ownership inscription on front free endpaper, dated "Christmas, 1904." (Blockson 10231). Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was leading African American educator and author, his most famous work being, "Up from Slavery" (1901), an autobiography detailing his journey from slavery to becoming the head of Tuskegee Institute, a major center for African American education. Other works include "The Future of the American Negro" (1899), "Character Building" (1902), "My Larger Education" (1911) and "Working with the Hands" (1904).
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14965
- Title
- Working With The Hands; Being A Sequel To "Up From Slavery" Covering The Author's Experiences in Industrial Training At Tuskegee
- Author
- Washington, Booker T
- Illustrator
- The first edition of Working With The Hands by Booker T. Washington, published in 1904.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- first edition booker t Washington, up from slavey Washington, first edition up from slavery, Tuskegee Washington, Sowing and Reaping Washington, Putting the most into life Washington,
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