Charles lewis reason (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (2nd Series, 1st printing) green colored embossed binding with gilt lettering and decoration; clean with "No. 4" in small letters inside cover o.w. no markings or writings; 309 pages followed by ads for other publications some wear at the points and other trace surface wear ;all portraits of prominent abolitionists have tissue guards Very good plus copy satisfaction or purchase price returned.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. [Abolitionist Literature] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor foxing. 309 pages, 13 portraits of prominent abolitionists (with facsimile signatures by each author), including the frontispiece. Hard mylar cover. Contemporary signature of William K. H. Tenell. Hand written names of the portraits of the abolitionist leaders on a contents page. The second collection of abolitionist essays, speeches and poems edited by Julia Griffith and the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. The book was published to raise funds for the society's anti-slavery work. Includes "Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce" by William Wells Brown; "The Intellectual, Moral, and spiritual Condition of the Slave" by John Mercer Langston; "A Time of Justice Will Come" by Gerrit Smith; two pieces by Charles Lewis Reason; "On Freedom" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; an extract from a speech by Frederick Douglass; "A Day Spent at Playford Hall" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc. "In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade." Refs: Afro-Americana 4369; Blockson 9205.…