Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 126

Unsold
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Men of Our Times. A Salesman's "dummy" with steel engraved plates and sample text. Crown 8vo, original green cloth, with sample binding on the pastedowns. Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868

Additional Details

A scarce salesman's "dummy" copy with a frontispiece portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and 18 steel-engraved portraits, including Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garrison, Ulysses S. Grant, Schuyler Colfax et al. Whoever the salesman was, he managed to get a number of subscriptions from what appear to be family members.