Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE IMPRINT.) Southern Literary Messenger. 6 issues in one volume. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 morocco, moderate wear; early bookplate of Mrs. George W. Bagby of Richmond (wife of the editor) on front pastedown. Richmond, VA, July-December 1861

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Six issues from early in the Civil War of this "magazine devoted to literature, science and art." Includes several articles relating to slavery and the war, including an editorial considering whether to resume the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and a long quasi-scientific essay on "Characteristics and Capabilities of the Negro Race." Sabin 88393.