Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
[LYMAN, DARIUS.] Leaven for Doughfaces; or Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery. Frontispiece, 7 plates. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, backstrip a bit faded; scattered minor browning. Cincinnati, 1856

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First and only edition. A doughface was a Northern Congressman unopposed to slavery during the period just preceding, and to an extent during, the Civil War. Sabin 39546; Work, page 301.<