The Underground Rail Road. A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of the Slaves in their Efforts for Freedom, as Rela

by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STILL, William

$5,500 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Thick octavo (24.5cm); variant in the publisher's terracotta fine English cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark brown clay-coated endpapers; 4pp.ads, [iv],780,[2]pp, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Still and 43 plates of illustrations. Gently spine-sunned..... More

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