Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) CLARKE, MILTON AND LEWIS. Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, during a Captivity of More than Twenty Years among the Slaveholders of Kentucky. Frontispieces of Milton and Lewis Clarke, 144 pages. Small 8vo, original gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth; tips rubbed some overall wear to the front joint, but firm. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846

Additional Details

a presentation copy "to william g. everett, chester n.h. from milton clarke." It is rare to see a presentation copy of a slave narrative. Milton Clarke's presentation was written over carefully drawn lines to insure neatness.