Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 67

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) MOTT, ABIGAIL, Compiler. Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color. To Which is Added a Selection of Pieces in Poetry. 408 pages. 12mo, original full speckled sheep with black morocco spine label; binding lightly scuffed; lacking the rear end-paper; numerous pencil rhymes in a contemporary 19th century hand. New York: Mahlon Day, (1839)

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later printing of this compilation. "Love is a humbug, All things show it, Once I thought so, now I know it;" one of the rhymes on the end-papers. From the hand of "Libbie," who has erased the name of her suitor "Libbie and . . . "