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Lot 6
Sale 6465 - Printed and Manuscript Americana
Jan 29, 2026
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Live / Philadelphia
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$704
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Lot Description
[African-Americana] Ball, Charles. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man; Who lived forty years in Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia, as a Slave...
Lewistown, Pennsylvania: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. 12mo. 400 pp. Full contemporary brown sheep, morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities scuffed and worn, cracks in upper front and rear joints; all edges trimmed; old pencil notations and ownership signatures on endpapers and blanks; dampstaining throughout; sheets toned and foxed; scattered wear along sheet edges; small loss in bottom corner pp. 89/90, affecting a few letters; closed tear in fore-edge pp. 133/134. Howes B-65; Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro-Americana 813; Not in Blockson
Scarce first edition of this influential slave narrative.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.