Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 466

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(RELIGION) GRIMKE, FRANCIS J. The Works of Francis J Grimke, Edited by Carter G. Woodson Two volumes, crown 8vo, original cloth Washington: Associated Publishers, 1942

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first edition. of the first two volumes of four published. Francis James Grimke (1850-1937) was the son of a wealthy and somewhat progressive South Carolinian planter and intellectual. The son of a slave, Grimke's education was paid for by his master/father, as were his siblings. Grimke became a noted speaker and lecturer as minister in one of Washington's best-known Presbyterian churches.