Philadelphia: Anti-slavery Society of the City and County of Philadelphia; printed by Merrihew & Gunn, 1837. Single quarto issue (29cm x 23cm; ca. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4"). Bifolium (4pp), pages numbered [9]-12. Issued monthly. Old horizontal fold at center (as issued?); small loss at upper margin (away from printed area), brief..... More

Raleigh, NC: Rev. M.L. Latta, 1903 [but 1924]. Revised and Expanded Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover within a brown double-ruled border; [viii],[31]-600pp, with a portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass and five inserted plates of illustrations (halftones);..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered board, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-537,[7]pp. Small 1.5" scratch to upper front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $19.95) with some rubbing at flap folds, and creasing and closed tears along..... More

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Thick octavo (24.5cm); variant in the publisher's terracotta fine English cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark brown clay-coated endpapers; 4pp.ads, [iv],780,[2]pp, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Still and 43 plates of illustrations. Gently spine-sunned..... More

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. First Edition in English. Five uniform octavo volumes (23cm). In the publisher's deep green grain-patterned cloth, blind-embossed on covers, titled in gilt on spines; printed terra-cotta endpapers; xxxvi, 578, [24]ads.; xi, 676; xi, 635; xiv, 641, [24]ads.; xii, 694pp; text illus; fifteen..... More

Washington DC: Davis and Force, 1824. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Stab-sewn pamphlet, untrimmed, lacking original wrappers; 173,[3]pp. Sound, rubbed at edges, occasional foxing and staining, lacking wrappers but otherwise whole: Very Good. Early report of the American Colonization Society. LCP AFRO-AMERICANA 406. More

Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Bound in a 20th century institutional brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 395pp. The binding is strong, tight, and eminently functional; internally clean, almost entirely untrimmed, endpapers contemporary with the binding, lacking a half-title, there are marginal repairs to..... More

New York: G.P. Putnam, 1862. Offprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); sewn self-wrappers; 33pp. Stitching snapped and signatures separated, brief soil to upper cover, faint creases and tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner; Good or better only. Article attributed to a founding member of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission, formed the following year..... More

Washington DC: J. and G.S. Gideon, 1844. First Edition. Speech delivered by long-time Senator from Missouri Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) in response to Vice President Calhoun's treaty to annex Texas. Benton, who opposed the extension of slavery in hopes of preserving the Union, claims here that the Treaty, though popular..... More

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's slate blue ribbed cloth titled in gilt to spine. 291pp. Solid and handsome, a little bumped to the spine ends and with some very light wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, pencil ownership to front..... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Second Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and navy blue on spine and front cover; ruling and decorations blind-stamped to front cover; top-edge gilt; fore- and lower edges untrimmed; xxii,424,[2]pp; frontispiece and 15 unnumbered leaves of..... More

Chicago: Pride & Co., 1866. First reprint, a year after the first. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's brown cloth, titled in gilt on front cover; viii,[9]-130pp. External rubbing and wear, with mild flaking to cloth at spine ends and board corners; internally complete and clean; about Very Good overall, in the original..... More

Richmond: Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, March 29, 1864. First Edition. Small octavo bifolium (19.5cm.); text printed on upper panel only. Light spotting, faint vertical fold, else Very Good or better. Orders pertaining to deserters, noting that "The enlistment of /deserters/ is a serious evil in the service," and calling..... More