![Item #91142 The Balance and Columbian Repository, [Vol. I], No. 26 (June 29, 1802](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/91142.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678311680)
Hudson, N.Y. Sampson, Chittenden & Croswell, 1802. An 8-page weekly newspaper (pages 201-208). Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 29cm. Later horizontal fold. Leaves separating at fold. Includes this brief note on page 206: "Authentic intelligence is received, via Norfolk, that the negroes in Hartford [probably Hertford?] County, N. C...... More
(Baltimroe): 1835. Paperback. 32p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume with stitchmarks, etc. along left side). 23 cm. Lacks wrapper. The unsigned lead article (pages [1]-8) in this uncommon periodical is titled "Colonization and Slavery. It at least pretends to support colonization for ending the evil of slavery but expresses..... More
Baltimore: Munroe & French, 1814. 4-page newspaper. 49 x 33 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Later horizontal fold. Some edge-wear and browning. Corner tips creased. Full of advertisements and some news. This issue includes three notices offering rewards for runaway slaves: (1) $30 reward for information leading to..... More
Charleston: Loring Andrews, 1804. 4p. Newspaper format. 31 x 48 cm. Moderate foxing and some light stains. Ragged along vertical fold but the two leaves are still partially attached. Later horizontal fold. Contains numerous advertisements making it clear just how important slaves and slavery were in the business and prosperity..... More
Boston: David Hale, n.d. (1817?). American edition of this Anglican publication. Hardcover. index, 890p. Original paper-covered boards. 24 cm. Backstrip chipped at ends. Front joint splitting at top. Ex. lib. (Ministerial Library Wilton bookplate overstamped with Andover-Harvard Theological Library "discard" stamp. Name stamp of a more recent owner on verso..... More
Hull (a port city in the Yorkshire area of England), C, Course, Printer, n.d. [probably pre-WWII]. 20th century reprint of a 19th century broadside. Single printed page. 13 x 19 cm. We did not locate this in OCLC. More
[Slave document] Handwritten 32 x20 cm. on one side of three ruled leaves. 32 x 20 cm. First page contains the signed text. Second page repeats the listing of 29 of those sold. The third page notes the addition of Sarah Ann separately for $611. The Jan 14, 1853, issue..... More
n.p. n.d. [1848]. 1st ed. Paperback. 16p. Tied wrapper. 23 cm. Stain in upper right corner. Dog-earing and modest wrinkling. Back page heavily browned; others pages much less browned. Van Buren's temporary emergence as a committed anti-slavery advocate in 1848 garnered about 10% of the national vote but he soon..... More
Single ruled personal-sized sheet written on both sides by his mother and his brother Amory. 21 cm. Small original flapped envelope opened at end present postmarked Feb. in Bolton. 3 cent U.S postage stamp still affixed. His mother mentions what the Ruffians did to George Brown's "Herald" and wants John..... More
Muskegon, Michigan: Earle Press Printers, n.d. [1937?]. Paperback. 15, [1]p. Softcover pamphlet in original wrapper. 16 cm. Sound and clean with rusty staples. This pamphlet was "...prepared by Billy L. Bennett of the Muskegon Y.M.C.A. and C.D. McNamee, managing editor of the Muskegon Chronicle." [statement inside front cover]. Walker, a...... More
Philadelphia: 1840 and 1853. Paperback. Softcover issues. Volumes were consecutively paginated. Each of our 1849 issues contains 24 pages. The 1853 issues are mostly 8 pages except for No. 8 which contains 16 pages. No separate wrappers. 28-29 cm. Issues generally sound with some combination of spotting, staining, soiling and..... More
London: Printed for The Anti-Slavery Society; and Sold by Hatchard and Son; and J. and A. Arch, 1826. Paperback. 49p. Softcover pamphlet. Stitched. No separate wrapper. 23 cm. Partially unopened. "Drawn from the Papers printed for the House of Commons, prior to the 10th of April, 1826." [printed statement on..... More
Hull: C. Couse, Printer, 1930. Second edition [so stated on front cover]. Paperback. (12)p. Softcover in original stapled wrapper. 23 cm. Focused on the 20th century problem of slavery in parts of Africa and elesewhere. Probably issued by or connected with the Anti-slavery and Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain). Includes..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969). Hardcover. xxxix, 248p. 22cm. No jacket. Reprint of the 1823 edition. More
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857. Hardcover. v, 138p. Original blue cloth. 17cm. Ends of backstrip and tips of corners rubbed. Gift inscription ("Presented to the "Mills Theological Society and Williams College bookplate with the latter stamped "Duplicate Sold" More
Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1826. Paperback. 40p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 21 cm. Moderate vertical crease. Minor foxing. No separate wrapper present. The extracts focus on the state of the slave trade and efforts to restrict or end that trade. More
Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. Paperback. 46p. Original green wrapper. 23cm. Minor foxing. Light vertical crease. INSCRIBED by Allen (as "Geo. Allen") on title-page. Cover title: Mr. Allen's Speech Before the Convention of Ministers of Worcester County, Mass. More
New York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1834, 1835, 1836 and 1838. 1st eds. Paperback. 64, 87, 97, and 152p. The first 3 reports are disbound (removed from a bound volume) and the 1835 and 1836 report lacks their original wrappers. The 1838 report has its original yellow wrapper. 21-22 cm. All..... More
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1864. 1st ed. Paperback. 175p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Backstrip chipped and at least partially detached. Ex lib. ("Brookline Public Library" stamp on front cover). Contents sound. This volume contains, as an Appendix at pages 157-176, a "Catalogue of Anti-Slavery Publications in America"..... More
Boston: T. R. Marvin, 1845. Paperback. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. Near Fine copy with splitting and loss along ends of narrow backstrip. The committee concluded that slave-holding Choctaws and Cherokees should be admitted to churches which were under the care of A.B.C.F.M. missionaries. More
![Item #88500 [Invitation to] Anti-Slavery Conference. Anti-Slavery Conference, 1867 : Paris](https://mcblainbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/88500.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679526225)
n.p. January, 1867. Four-page leaflet (2nd and 4th pages blank). Later folds, probably for mailing. Minor splitting at end of one fold. Accompanied by a modest-sized (14 x 22 cm.) 2-page holograph letter dated 17th January 1867 and written by L. A. Chamerovzow, Secretary of the Sub-Committee of the British..... More
London: A. W. Bennett; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1859. Hardcover. frontis, xv, 144p. Original cloth. 18 cm. Backstrip faded. Modest splitting at head of joints. Front endpaper neatly split at hinge. Almost entirely unopened. Revision of Vaux's "Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet" originally published in 1817. The Indian medal pictured..... More
New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1833. Second Separate edition [so stated]. Paperback. 24p. Pamphlet. 23 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Foxing (fairly heavy on title-leaf, light elsewhere). Six digit number stamped at top of first text leaf. No separate wrapper present. Bacon was one of the leading lights..... More
Pasadena, Calif. Printed by House of Printing, (c. 1969). Presumed 1st ed. Paperback. photos, map, [8], 80, [1]p. Softcover in original gray wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover fading. Internally sound and clean. Banks, a white Southerner, was born south of Hernando, Mississippi. Her father was a physician who also had..... More
Holograph in a clear hand. Single partial sheet (approximately 20 x 17 cm.). Numerous sums, mostly in ink on reverse which appear to be unrelated to Dick's sale. Later folds (one vertical and two horizontal). Some uneven browning or spotting. No location given. Relation between buyer and seller not specified..... More
