A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy

by Frederick Law Olmsted

$650 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Dix & Edwards, 1856. First edition. Bound in publisher's brown ribbed cloth decorated in blind and lettered in gilt on the spine. Near Fine, with dulling to gilt titles, shallow chipping at head of spine. Several small stains to top edge of textblock. Small corner missing from front free end paper. A nice and sharp copy of a book which usually turns up much worse for wear. Olmsted was interested in the slave

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