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ANTE-BELLUM REFORM.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. A selection of papers, by authors including Martin Duberman, Lee Benson, John Thomas, Davis, and others, looking at different aspects of the topic. A title in the 'Interpretations of American History' series.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 23697More details Price: $8.00 -
ABOLITIONIST, ACTUARY, ATHEIST: Elizar Wright and the Reform Impulse.
Edition: First printing.
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first scholarly biography of Wright. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 280 pages. ISBN: 0-87338-3974.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 16658More details Price: $20.00 -
BURY THE CHAINS: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. SIGNED first edition - An account of "the first grassroots human rights campaign, in England, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world" - a movement which started with 12 men meeting in 1787 and spread from there. Among those involved were John Newton, the former slave ship captain who wrote 'Amazing Grace;' ex-slave Olaudah Equiano, Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson who devoted his life to the cause. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, extensive source notes, bibliography, index. 467 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 52047More details Price: $30.00 -
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF ARMY LIFE: or, Pen Pictures from the Battlefield, the Camp, and the Hospital
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overall in original embossed green cloth - some fraying to the ends of the spine, rubbing to the lettering, other shelfwear, offsetting to the title page and some very light scattered foxing. Pages are supple, binding is still sturdy and book is easily readable.
Book ID: 55171More details Price: $65.00 -
RAISING HOLY HELL.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Henry Holt, (1995.). First edition - The author's first book, a complex historical novel based on the life of the ardent abolitionist John Brown, who was hanged after his failed raid on Harper's Ferry. Publisher's letter laid in.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 29433More details Price: $20.00 -
RAISING HOLY HELL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a complex historical novel based on the life of the ardent abolitionist John Brown, who was hanged after his failed raid on Harper's Ferry. Publisher's letter laid in. ISBN: 0-8050-38566.
Condition: Very good+ in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 29436More details Price: $12.00 -
COMMUNE ON THE FRONTIER: The Story of Frances Wright.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of a woman born in Scotland in 1795, who came to America in 1818 as a young woman because she believed in freedom - she wrote books, founded a commune, published a radical newspaper, spoke out against slavery, organized religion and for women's rights. A title in the Women in America Series. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xiix, 259 pp. ISBN: 0-690204019.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 78697More details Price: $13.50