Freedom from fear; the slave and his emancipation
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1961. Hardcover. 200p., first US edition, price clipped dj faded on spine. On the British empire, slavery, and its abolition. More
Cat.No: 154904
Abolitionism
Prophet of liberty, the life and times of Wendell Phillips
New York: Bookman Associates, 1958. Hardcover. 814p., front., illus., 8x5.5 inch casebinding in somewhat worn and faded dj; later printing. More
Cat.No: 2256
Oberliniana; a jubilee volume of semi-historical anecdotes connected with the past and present of Oberlin College, 1833-1883
Cleveland: Home Publishing Co., 1883. Hardcover. 175, [9]p., wood engraved illus., pleasantly fancy production as befits "a jubilee" item, clothbacked 8x5.5 inch printed paper over boards, all edges tinted red as issued, somewhat edgeworn with slightly shaky hinges, textblock is clean and sound, previous owner's caligraphic signature and address written..... More
Cat.No: 155437
Emotion at high tide; abolition as a controversial factor, 1830-1845
Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1960. Hardcover. vi, 243p., cloth boards, no dj as published, very good. More
Cat.No: 74667
Religion of reason
New York: American News Company, 1864. Hardcover. 203p., steel-engraved frontis portrait, minor foxing, one or two pages with lightly pencilled emphases, brown cloth decoratively pressed in blind and titled gilt, binding edgeworn with fading and discoloration of rear and spine panels, minor fraying along head, tail and joints. Smith, a...... More
Cat.No: 124835
A political history of slavery; being an account of the slavery controversy from the earliest agitations in the eighteenth century to the close of the reconstruction period in America, introduction by Louis Filler
New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1966. Hardcover. x, 350p. dj. Reprint of volume one of the 1903 edition. American Classics Series. More
Cat.No: 75335
3 against slavery; Denmark Vesey, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass
New York: Scholastic Book Series, 1972. Hardcover. 128p., period illustrations, first printing, hardcover with some shelfwear to boards, else very good. Prepared for the young adult audience. Spencer was the penname of Aaron Kramer, a left poet and literary critic. More
Cat.No: 215031
The story of the underground railroad; illustrated by Ralph Canaday
Chicago: Childrens Press, 1981. Pictorial Boards. 31p., 8.25x9.75 inches, illus., hardcover, first printing, distributor's stamp on inside back cover, else very good in pictorial boards. Children's book. Cornerstones of freedom. More
Cat.No: 88017
The Pantarch: a biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. xviii, 208p., frontispiece portrait of Andrews, illus., very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly worn dj. Andrews was an anarchist, abolitionist, and co-founder of the Modern Times utopian community. More
Cat.No: 41174
The Pantarch: a biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. xviii, 208p., frontispiece portrait of Andrews, illus., very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly worn dj with a small stain on the rear panel. Andrews was an anarchist, abolitionist, and co-founder of the Modern Times utopian community. More
Cat.No: 258588
The Pantarch: a biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. xviii, 208p., frontispiece portrait of Andrews, illus., very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly worn dj. Dj is unevenly toned along top edge. Andrews was an anarchist, abolitionist, and co-founder of the Modern Times utopian community. More
Cat.No: 258589
The Pantarch: a biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968. Hardcover. xviii, 208p., frontispiece portrait of Andrews, illus., top corner of free front endpaper clipped, else very good condition in a price-clipped and lightly worn dj with two small holes in the rear panel. Andrews was an anarchist, abolitionist, and co-founder of the Modern..... More
Cat.No: 284067
Anthony Burns; a history
Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. 295p., very good hardcover in clipped dj. Reprint of 1856 work describing Massachusetts' most famous fugitive slave case. European American author. More
Cat.No: 13654
Soul Mates: the Oberlin correspondence of Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown, 1846-1850
Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1983. Paperback. viii, 100p., introduction, methods, afterword, biographical notes, ownership name, sunning else good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 267679
The light of nature and the law of god; Antislavery in Ontario, 1833-1877
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Hardcover. xvi, 273p., dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 66493
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. iv, 262p. + 2p. ads, front wrap lacking, original rear wrap laid in (printed with more Jewett ads), withdrawn ex-library in a makeshift cover of brown paper and clear tape, sturdier than it sounds. *BAK 19359, printing 1, binding B. More
Cat.No: 64204
Onkel Toms Hütte. Eine Erzählung aus dem Negerleben in den Sklavenstaaten Nordamerikas. Für di deutsche Jungend bearbeitet von Fr. Hoffman. Mit farbendruckbildern nach Uquarellen vonE. Hosang
Berlin: G. Hendersohn, n.d. Hardcover. 137p. + 3 color plates, later German language edition, hinge starting, text block toned, else good. More
Cat.No: 52876
La cabaña del Tio Tom;
Mexico City: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1982. Paperback. 297p., later printing, wraps. Spanish language translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Coleccion Literaria Universal. More
Cat.No: 68539
Restoration and peace! national union celebration at Union Square, Monday, September 17, 1866, the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution.
New York: for the Committee by Baptist & Taylor, Book and Job Printers, 1866. 24p., sewn signature in paste-fastened pinkish self-wraps, titling in different fonts with wood-engraved device (eagle perched on grasped hands), 9x5.7 inches. Original thread present and well-preserved, no foxing, dust-soiled covers, mildest edgewear and pressure marks, old..... More
Cat.No: 174851
Prison life and reflections: or a narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflection, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson, who suffered an unjust and cruel imprisonment in Missouri penitentiary, for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty. Three parts in one volume
Hartford: A. Work, 1855. Hardcover. 377p., some foxing, otherwise a tight, very good copy. First published in 1847. More
Cat.No: 101254
Copaganda: Why The Constitution Doesn't Apply to You
[Charleston, SC]: Amanda Mission Publishing Ink Alternative Press, 2011. Paperback. 200p., shelfworn pictorial wraps, else in good condition. More
Cat.No: 277065
Pinin' for dat' freedom day
New York: Chappell-Harms, Inc., 1930. Sheet_music. [6p., of music notation], 9x12 inches; blue pictorial wrappers, unevenly toned, small pencil notation o nfront cover, else in very good condition. Chicago-born film composer. More
Cat.No: 282118
William Jay and the constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery, with a preface by John Jay
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1893. Hardcover. xiii, 185p. + six plates, first edition, front hinge weakening, title page/copyright page has completely seperated from text block, former owner's signature and date (1905) written in pencil on first front endpage. More
Cat.No: 101368
The trials of Anthony Burns; freedom and slavery in Emerson's Boston
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Hardcover. xix, 409p., first printing, hardcover with boards and unclipped dj mildly bumped at upper corners, else very good. More
Cat.No: 95721
A sketch and an appreciation of Moncure Daniel Conway, freethinker and humanitarian. An address at the Paine-Conway memorial meeting of the Manhattan Liberal Club, January 31, 1908
New York: Published by Edwin C. Walker, 1908. Paperback. 55p., wraps, 5.25x7.75 inches, wraps slightly soiled with minor chipping on the edges else very good condition. Walker was associated with Moses Harman, freethought & anarchist circles. In 1886 he served 75 days in prison for entering into a "free marriage"..... More
Cat.No: 12433