Mar 31, 2016 - Sale 2408

Sale 2408 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.) STILL, WILLIAM. The Underground Railroad, a Record. Portrait frontispiece of Still and numerous additional portraits of other conductors etc. 780 pages. Large, thick 4to, original brick red cloth stamped in gilt and blind; some wear and rubbing; inner hinges cracked but firm. Philadelphia, 1872

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first edition of william still's monumental study, all the more valuable than many histories in that it was written by one of the most active conductors on the Railroad, and written shortly after the War and Emancipation.