[Item #55727] An Inquiry into the Condition and Prospects of the African Race in the United States: And the Means of Bettering Its Fortunes. ANON.

An Inquiry into the Condition and Prospects of the African Race in the United States: And the Means of Bettering Its Fortunes

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1839. First Edition. Probable first edition. 12mo (19cm). Purple-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine; plain endpapers; 214pp. Ink inscription to front flyleaf. Stable, cloth rubbed and stained, sunned at spine, foxed throughout, dampstains to a few leaves: Good only. A centrist discussion of American slavery and abolitionism, recommending colonization schemes as the best resolution. AMERICAN IMPRINTS reports an 1837 edition with one copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia Ridgway Branch, but that edition does not appear in the LCP catalogue (or any other bibliography we have checked), and may not exist. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 5155. BLOCKSON 9562. SABIN 34804. HOWES I61.

Price: $275.00

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