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[AMERICANA] five titles relating to slavery and abolitionist subjects

Goodell, William Slavery and Anti-Slavery... With a View of the Slavery Question in the United States New York: William Goodell, 1855. Third edition. 8vo. Contemporary three-quarter black calf over blue linen-covered boards; morocco spine label; marbled edges. Scuffed, joints and edges rubbed, moderate foxing at front, other scattered foxing. Sabin, 27849. The Liberty Bell. By Friends of Freedom Boston: National Anti-Slavery Bazaar, 1856. 12mo. With additional vignette title. Original gilt-pictorial brown cloth, spine gilt, all edges gilt, rather scuffed, some edge wear; moderate internal dust smudging, some spotting. Contributors include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, etc. Sabin, 40942. Conway, M.D. Testimonies Concerning Slavery London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. First edition. 12mo. Original gilt-lettered green cloth, light to moderate wear; internally generally clean. Presentation copy, inscribed, dated ("Sept. 1864"), and signed by "The Author" on front free endpaper. Sabin, 16222. Mallard, R.Q. Plantation Life Before Emancipation Richmond, VA.: Whittet & Shepperson, 1892. First edition. 16mo. Contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; joints and spine rubbed; internally clean. Blockson, 3756. Whitfield, Theodore M. Slavery Agitation in Virginia 1829-1832 Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. 12mo. Original green cloth, gilt; light wear, dust jacket with small chipping at edges; internally clean. All ex-library with either book-plates on front paste-downs or rubber stamps to endpapers, and call numbers in pencil on same and title-pages.

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