Centennial Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Society, for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Boston: and for Improving the Condition of the African Race.
Philadelphia: Grant, Faires & Rodgers, Printers, 1875. First edition. Original wrappers (9.13 x 5.88 inches), original wrappers, 82 pages. Original errata slip on blue paper stock bound in the rear. Wrappers toned and showing a few spots, some light general wear with a little loss to paper along the spine; in very good condition. Item #22387
“I now have the honor of presenting to you a gentleman born in the Sate of Maryland, a victim of the slave system, who struck that system heavy blows, and who has won a name in the cause of liberty that history will record. I present to you Frederick Douglass. (Long-continued applause.)” A celebration of the oldest abolitionist organization in America, the extensive proceedings and addresses here including an address from Frederick Douglass that is collected in the Frederick Douglass papers under the title, “Celebrating the Past, Anticipating the Future: an Address Delivered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 14, 1875.” Lib. Co. Afro-Americana 7601; Dumond, Bibliography of Antislavery in America, page 90. With the wrapper publication date of 1876, as seems commonly found. An ex-library copy, with the bookplate for the Whittier Collection of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore tipped in at the foot of the inside rear wrapper, with an additional small neat ink gift stamp to the inside front wrapper.
Price: $350.00