Booker T. Washington
Philadelphia: Ethiopian Publishing Company, 1924. First edition. 17x12 cm, 63pp. Vignette illustrations, photographic frontis and single plate in text. Original brown paper wraps lettered in brown. Corners and edges rubbed and worn, few stray markings to wrappers, former owner's name on front cover. Internally clean with some smudging to endpapers and a few lightly bent page corners. Very good.
Uncommon publication from the Ethiopian Classic Series, a short, illustrated biography of the Jim Crow era reformer. This booklet was written by Arthur Huff Fauset (1899-1983), civil rights activist from Philadelphia known for his educational publications for young readers. His encyclopedia . com entry cites his collections at the University of Pennsylvania for this information.
OCLC locates 8 copies. Item #5656
Price: $75.00