New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901. First edition. 8vo. ix, (i), 330 pp. Illustrated with a photogravure frontispiece portrait of Washington with printed facsimile signature. Publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in gilt, slightly cocked, corner lightly worn, bottom front and rear of same bumped, light soiling to boards, spine ends and joints lightly rubbed, boards very lightly and unevenly faded; top edge gilt; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper ("D.A. Pennock"); text block slightly slipping; some gutters starting; light spotting and offsetting on title-page; small closed tear in fore-edge of pp. 1/2; old slip laid in at pp. 84-85 causing slight offsetting; top corner pp. 107/108 slightly creased; newspaper clipping, dated 1901, regarding Washington, mounted onto rear paste-down, causing offsetting onto rear free endpaper; scattered pencil notations in margins of a few leaves toward rear.

A handsome first edition of Booker T. Washington's acclaimed autobiography.