Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 1,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) The Anti-Slavery Examiner Extra "Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave." Eight pages small folio; creases where folded for mailing; name and address of early subscriber, "W. D. Wilson, Cambridge." New York & Boston, 1838

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first edition of this narrative, as told to john greenleaf whittier, the great new england poet. Normally this narrative would have been issued in pamphlet form, or as a small book. What prompted them to issue it in this unusual format is not known. BAL 21709.