Brown cover with gilt lettering on the spine. Front and rear endpapers removed. Spine is worn, with a tear at the top. Fraternity library bookplate on the front innerboard and presentation inscription on the second endpaper. The title page is loose and the pages are browned. 318 pages. Size: 5"x8"
Prefatory Note:
The following work is little more than a record of facts seen and learned during an extensive tour in the Southern States in 1852 and 1853, from a journal made at the time. This tour was made, and the notes had been used by the author as the basis of a series of lectures delivered in several of the New England States, before any other "view" of slavery had been published. Neither its origin nor its preparation has been induced, therefore, by any publication that has preceded it.
The manuscript copy, as originally prepared for the press, contained the entire names of individuals and places. At the suggestion of the publisher many of theses names have been suppressed, or the initials only inserted. But as this has been done solely from a regard for the feelings of those referred to, - many of whom are the author's personal friends, - any one desiring the names, with the view of testing the truth of any statements contained in the volume, can do so by applying to him, or the publisher.
C.G.P.
Windham, Aug. 1 1855
- Inside View of Slavery: Or a Tour Among the Planters
- C. G. Parsons
- John P. Jewett and Company, 1855
- First Edition
The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, first published in 1859. Set in 18th-century New England, the novel explores New England history, highlights the issue of slavery, and critiques the Calvinist theology in which Stowe was raised.
This antique copy, 5"x7.5" is a hard cover edition with a color illustrated cover with black lettering on the front and spine of the cover. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. 434 pages. Book is in good condition with tanned pages, foxing, wear and soil.
- THE MINISTER'S WOOING
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Hurst and Company, 1898
This antique hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth with black lettering on a gilt background on the spine. Cover and spine also have a leaf pattern in black, and the cover has a small illustration. Cover soil, most at spine; endpapers and foredge browned/spotted; tanned pages; wear and soil. An early edition of Stowe's famous novel about slavery. 500 pages; approx. 5"x8".
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890
Bound in brown cloth boards with gilt spine lettering and decoration. Covers edgeworn, soiled. Bookplate and inscription on front endpapers. Illustrated with engravings throughout, this abolitionist novel argues that "the institution of Slavery is directly chargeable with the various moral, social and political evils which we have detailed." 597 pages; approx. 5"x7"
- Our World: Or, The Slaveholder's Daughter
- Francis Colburn Adams
- New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855
