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Sale 317: Fine Children's Books (#317) 09/15/2005 1:00 PM PDT Closed
Starts Ending 09/15/2005 1:00 PM PDT

Lot #2 The Slave's Friend

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$87.50

Estimate: $120 - $180

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Description

Heading:

(Abolition)

Title:

The Slave's Friend

Author:

**

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

The Anti-Slavery Office

Date Published:

c.1837

Description:

Nos. 15 and 23 only. (From Vol. II, No. III and Vol. II. No. XI respectively.) 16 pp. each. Illustrated with woodcuts (including a slave in chains, praying; and a white schoolmaster with a group of black children). 4x2¾, printed front wrappers.

Rare issues of the Anti-Slavery Office's journal for children. The American Anti- Slavery Society which was founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison.

Condition:

Lacking back wrappers, front wrappers and a couple of pages loose; title-page of no. 15 with loss affecting text.

Item#:

164127
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