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WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915). –– WASHINGTON. E. Davidson (1889-1938). Selected Speeches of Booker T. Washington. Edited by E. Davidson Washington. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1932. 8vo. Inserted frontispiece. Publisher’s full blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine toned and rubbed, some rubbing to boards, text toned with occasional thumbsoiling); original printed dust jacket (jacket spine toned, soiled and chipped, jacket panels worn thumbsoiled, chipped and torn). FIRST EDITION. The editor, E. Davidson Washington, was the second son of Booker T. Washington. INSCRIBED BY E. DAVIDSON WASHINGTON to Claude A. Barnett on the fp: “To my friend Claude A. Barnett From E. Davidson Washington Jan. 19-1933”. Laid-in is a Typed Letter Signed by E. Davidson Washington, January 19, 1933, on Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationery, addressed to Mr. Barnett, asking for any help in publicizing the book. This is from the library of Claude Albert Barnett (1889-1967), the founder of the Associated Negro Press, with his bookplate on the fp. From the collection of the Barnett family.