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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. In Memoriam Frederick Douglass. Photogravure portrait of Douglass. Large, thick 4to, original gray cloth, stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine; top edge gilt, all others untrimmed; covers lightly soiled; pages largely unopened; signs of damp-stain to page edges from about the middle backward, in varying degree (as many copies of this edition that we have handled seem to have); lacks the front free end-paper; two early ownership signatures, one on top of the other on the rear inner cover. Philadelphia: Yorston, 1897
A reasonable copy of this extraordinary collection of obsequies, eulogies, etc., read at both the services held in Washington, D.C. and Rochester, New York. Includes letters from William Lloyd Garrison, Richard T. Greener, Booker T. Washington, Emma Willard; a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a piece by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, read by Susan B. Anthony, and the prayer offered by Reverend Alexander Crummell, the grand old man, and founder of the American Negro Academy. Blockson Collection, 3098.
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