Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

US precedence; the census claim of Doubleday, Page (New York), 1901 is correct. The 1901 Doubleday, Page issue is the true first book edition — the text had already run serially in The Outlook, so the book is the first appearance in book form rather than the first appearance of the text. Do not confuse it with Washington's earlier and separate autobiography, The Story of My Life and Work (J. L. Nichols, 1900), a subscription-published book with a different text. No competing first-edition claim from another country is asserted here: I could not corroborate a named 1901 London edition against two independent authorities, so none is stated.