FLIGHT TO CANADA
NY: Random House, (1976). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 179. Small dent in front, o/w a nice copy in dj. More
NY: Random House, (1976). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 179. Small dent in front, o/w a nice copy in dj. More
Middletown CT: Wesleyan, (2009). First printing. 8vo, pp. xiii, 186. Notes, index. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Map on endpapers. Flyer from the Beecher House Society Inc. laid in with information about the Venture Smith Project. As new in dj. Smith, the son of an African chief, was captured and..... More
NY: Socialist Literature, 1913. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 237. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. A VG tight copy. A Marxist interpretation. More
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1860. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 11-569. Blind-stamped original brown cloth. Cover faded and worn, o/w VG. Wright II, 2162. A pro-slavery novel. More
Yale CT: Yale, (2007). First printing. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 385. Notes, index. Paper wraps. Sklar's presentation on half-title. Illustrated. Cover slightly curled, o/w a nice copy. Seventeen articles by, among others, David Brion Davis, Judith Resnik, Seymour Drescher, Carla Peterson, Deborah Logan. More
NY: John A Gray, 1855. First Edition. 8vo, 32. Tan wraps, A very good copy. Smith was a noted abolitionist who served in Congress for one term. He responds to the assertion in the Tribune that he had not voted against the Kansas-Nebraska bill which allowed the two territories to..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2004. 8vo, pp. 189. Notes, index. With two maps. Paper over boards with cloth spine. About as new. The "Princes" were two slave traders from the coast of Africa who were ambushed and themselves sold into slavery in Dominica. Eventually, in and out of slavery, they found..... More
NY: Norton, (1984). First printing. 8vo, pp. xx, 535. Bibliography, notes, index. Illustrated with photographs. Yellow cloth. A few leaves slightly bumped at upper corner, edges a bit spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in little scuffed dj. A collection of letters and first person narratives, with commentary. More
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2003). First printing. 8vo, pp. 404. Notes, index. Illustrated with reproductions and a map. Near fine in slightly scuffed dj. Having grown up in a slaveholding society, Washington's attitude toward race and slavery began changing when he commanded both black and white troops during the..... More
London: Macmillan, (1982). First Edition. 8vo, pp. 272. Notes, references, index. Paper over boards. Top edge spotted, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj. More
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970). First Edition. 8vo, pp. xi, 368. Indices. Illustrated wtih photographs. Black cloth. Edges little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy in heavily-scuffed dj. More