History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
by SHIPHERD, Jacob R. (compiler)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-ruled grown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus overall. While inner hinges and text block are a solid very good, clean and nice, the binding is quite rough and edgeworn, especially along length of spine, which is chipped along the top, and rear board cloth mottled. A tight and decent first edition of this court case transcript introduced by Henry E. Peck and Ralph Plumb -- a famed test of the Fugitive Slave Law involving an escaped slave from Kentucky and the owner's attempt to reclaim him in Ohio. HOWES S 419.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43720
- Title
- History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
- Author
- SHIPHERD, Jacob R. (compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John P. Jewett and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1859
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Black History;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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