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313 ● (EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON,
BOOKER T. Tuskegee and its People:
Their Ideals and Achievements.
Illustrated. 8vo, original blind-stamped red
cloth, lettered in gilt; A FINE BRIGHT COPY,
IN A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE 1905
DUST JACKETwith a few chips and internal
repairs. New York: Appleton, 1905
[4,000/6,000]
FIRST EDITION, ONE OF AN UNSPECIFIED
NUMBER OF “COMPLIMENTARY”COPIES
FOR WASHINGTON’S PERSONAL USE——
IN THE RARE 108 YEAR OLD DUST JACKET.
A collection of essays and articles about the
school and the achievement of its graduates by
Tuskegee graduates and faculty, including Mrs.
Washington, Robert R. Moton, William
Holtzclaw, Emmett J. Scott, Geaorge W.
Lovejoy, and many others. This copy has a
tipped in page, preceding the half-title with the
printed “Compliments of Booker T.
Washington, Principal of Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama.”
314 ● (EDUCATION.) WASHINGTON,
BOOKER T. With the Cooperation of
Robert E. Clark The man Farthest
Down. 390 pages. 8vo, later full black
morocco-backed marbled paper-covered
boards; dark shadow at pages 148-149
where a piece of paper was placed
Garden City: Doubleday & Page, 1912
[1,000/1,500]
A PRESENTATION COPY WITH A FINE ASSO-
CIATION:”To Miss S. Helen Porter with best
wishes from Mr. and Mrs. Booker T.
Washington, Xmas, 1913.” Susan Helen
Porter was the pedagogy teacher at Tuskegee
and a close friend of the Washington and his
wife. Porter’s correspondence with Washington
is often cited in the Booker T. Washington
Papers.
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