Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

243 c   (EDUCATION.) Booker T. Washington. Poster, 19 1 / 2 x 15 1 / 2 inches; 3 small holes, minor wear, minor dampstaining. [Chicago?]: P.P. & F Co. [Peoples Portrait & Frame Co.?], 1911 [800/1,200] A portrait of the great educator, with two long captions: one headed “Biography” and the other headed “The Tuskegee Institute.” We trace no examples on OCLC. 244 c   (EDUCATION.) Washington, Booker T. Black-Belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students. Frontispiece portrait. xii, 115 pages. 16mo, publisher’s cloth gilt, minor wear; minimal dampstaining. New York, 1898 [500/750] First edition of Washington’s first book, preceded only by an 18-page pamphlet, “Daily Resolves,” published in 1896. Features an introduction by Washington’s longtime collaborator T. Thomas Fortune, also a freed slave. 245 c   (EDUCATION.) Group of 10 books by or about Booker T. Washington. 8vo, publisher’s cloth except as noted; various conditions. Vp, 1901-16 [500/750] 8 works by Washington. Up from Slavery. First edition. New York, 1901 * The Story of My Life and Work. Naperville, IL, 1901 * A New Negro for a New Century. Gilt cloth pictorial covers. Chicago, nd * The Story of the Negro: The Rise of the Race from Slavery. Volume 1. New York, 1909 * Putting the Most Into Life. New York, 1906 * Character Building. New York, 1903 * Tuskegee and Its People. New York, 1905 * The Story of Slavery. Pictorial wrappers. Dansville, NY, [1913]. 2 works about Washington: Emmett Scott and Lyman Beecher Stowe. Booker T. Washington: Builder of a Civilization. Inscribed by the author Lyman Beecher Stowe (grandson of Harriet) to his aunt. Garden City, NY, 1916 * Frederick Drinker. Booker T. Washington: The Master Mind of a Child of Slavery. Salesman’s sample book. Np, 1915. 243