Working With The Hands; Being A Sequel To "Up From Slavery" Covering The Author's Experiences in Industrial Training At Tuskegee

Washington, Booker T.

Edité par Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1904

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Octavo, x, 246pp. Original maroon cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover, light wear to covers. The first printing, "Published, May, 1904" stated on copyright page. Top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge. Solid text block, occasional foxing throughout, light wear to corners of cloth. Complete with 32 full-page plates drawn from photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston, including a frontispiece portrait of Washington. (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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• Titre: Working With The Hands; Being A Sequel To "Up From Slavery" Covering The Author's Experiences in Industrial Training At Tuskegee
• Éditeur: Doubleday, Page & Company, New York
• Date de parution: 1904
• Reliure: Cloth
• Illustrateur: The first edition of Working With The Hands by Booker T. Washington, published in 1904.
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Culture, Ethnicity & Gender