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Group of Six Booker T. Washington Books. ... (Total: 6 Items)
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Group of Six Booker T. Washington Books. Includes:Daily Resolves. London: Ernest Nister, 1896. 12mo. [12] pages. Illustrated paper boards backed in cream cloth. Washington's first published work. A compilation of life affirming aphorisms; it was designed in England in a calligraphic style and printed in Bavaria.
Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students. New York: Fortune and Scott, 1898. First edition. 18mo. Xii, 115 pages. Frontispiece. Green publisher's cloth with gilt stamped board and spine. Introduction by T. Thomas Fortune, who was also a freed slave. This is Washington's true first book, preceded only by the collection of aphorisms, Daily Resolves. A very rare title, especially in this condition.
An Open Letter by Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Alabama Pamphlet. Octavo. 8 pages. Includes an open letter to the Louisiana Constitution Convention from February 19, 1898 and an interview to the Atlanta Constitution about the Hardwick Bill in 1900.
The Day's Work Series: Sowing and Reaping. Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1900. 12mo. 29 pages. Red publisher's cloth with blue and green botanical illustration to front board.
Working with the Hands. New York: Doubleday, Page, & Company, 1904. Octavo. 246 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt stamped spine and board. Unclipped dust jacket.
Frederick Douglass. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Company, [1907]. Octavo. 365 pages. Part of the "American Crisis Biographies" series. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket.
Condition: Boards are lightly rubbed with bumped corners. Occasional example of foxing and toning internally. Both dust jackets have chipping to heads of the spine and panels. Douglass' lacking frontispiece; dust jacket has chipping with loss that touches three letters of the title on the spine and front panel. Very good books with good dust jackets.
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