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London: Allison & Busby, (1984). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Published in 1981 in America in a paperback edition, this is the first hardcover edition.
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HIDING PLACE
by WIDEMAN, John Edgar
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UP FROM SLAVERY
by WASHINGTON, Booker T
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. Early Edition. Hardcover. A small tear to bottom blank margin of one leaf; 1998 statement by a previous owner on the recto of the frontispiece stating the importance of the book on her grandfather; Vincent's bookplate on the front pastedown. Mild rubbing to the spine edges and tips with small frayed spot on spine edge and a few small frayed spots on rear cover with loss of cloth. Still Near Fine. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Washington. Classic turn-of-the-century autobiography, a testament to the virtues of hard work and unrelenting effort, by the successor to Frederick Douglass as the foremost American black leader of his time. Born a slave, Washington founded Tuskegee Institute, becoming its first president, at the age of 25. This copy of his best-known book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front free endpaper to a prominent banker and book collector: "To/Mr. W. D. Vincent/with sincerest/regard of/Booker T.…
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