Very Good.Binding tight lacking front blank endpaper light foxing else clean pages moderate wear and a few light spots to covers lacking the extremely rare dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, FIRST ISSUE with 1901 date on title page, correct publisher imprint, and lacking mention of Washington's first book on title page (several sellers erroneously claim that the first issue had mention of his earlier book while later printings did not it's the exact opposite as the first issue was the only one not to have mention of his first book in addition there was a comma after 1901 on copyright page until at least 1903 so that's a bogus point as well.) Original cloth, lettered in gilt. 3 on its list ofthe 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and in 1999 it was also listed by the conservativeIntercollegiate Reviewas one of the '50 Best Books of the Twentieth Century'. The book was a best-seller, and remained the most popular African American autobiography until that ofMalcolm X.In 1998, theModern Librarylisted the book at No. Washington(1856-1915), describing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during theCivil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the newHampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools-most notably theTuskegee InstituteinAlabama-to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Fair or better.Front hinge cracked else tight binding a few dogears name on front endpaper foxing to endpaper covers worn with a few small stains and some sunning lacking the extremely rare dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SECOND ISSUE with 1901 date on title page, correct publisher imprint, but with mention of Washington's first book on title page.

Washington booker t up from slavery