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Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
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WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856-1915) The Man Farthest Down. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
8vo. Fold-out map. Original publisher's red cloth gilt.
FIRST EDITION. An examination of the poor and working classes in Europe by Washington, written while he was on sabbatical from Tuskegee Institute. The Man Farthest Down includes significant contributions from Robert E. Park (1864-1944), the influential sociologist who worked with Washington at Tuskegee, and later at the University of Chicago where he became a major figure in the Chicago school of sociology.