(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Pettit Eber M Sketches in the Histor

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Pettit, Eber M. Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad. Printed frontispiece portrait. 8vo, contemporary plain cloth with printed label on upper cover, upper corner worn; dampstaining to upper corner with slight loss to first leaves, first gathering coming detached; inscribed by the editor Willard McKinstry to Fredonia merchant Henry Leworthy on front free endpaper in 1896. Fredonia, NY, 1879

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first edition, dedicated to frederick douglass. An important memoir of Petit's active participation in the Underground Railroad. Howes P271; Work, page 338. Only 2 other copies known at auction.