Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SLAVE NARRATIVES.) JONES, THOMAS H. The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Written by a Friend, as related to him by Brother Jones. Engraved frontispiece. 48 pages. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers with a portrait of the author on the upper cover; some light overall wear, small chip to the tip of the front cover; two small, early repairs to the reverse of the front wrapper. Boston: Bazin & Chandler, 1862

Additional Details

Probable third edition, preceded by 1849 and 1854 editions. A dictated narrative, but still one of the better accounts. Work, page 312.