8vo. Frontispiece and 15 plates. (Toning.) Original maroon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (minor wear at joints, spine leaned). Provenance: Dr. Samuel Collins to Mrs. David J.S. Corry, 1903.  (presentation inscription to front free endpaper). 

FIRST EDITION semi-historical novel by Jane S. Collins whose husband ran the first racially-integrated school in Indiana during the Civil War. While intended as a temperance guide, it also was a narrative of civil rights. The protagonist is the well-educated son of formerly enslaved parents who demands admission to the Whtie House.