Philadelphia: Thos. S. Dando & Co., Printers and Publishers, No. 307 Walnut Street, 1884. First edition. Original printed wrappers (9 x 5.75 inches), 65, [1] pages. Frontis portrait of William Lloyd Garrison. Includes an account of the early days of the organization of the AASS from John Greenleaf Whittier. BAL..... More

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. “I now have the honor of presenting to you a gentleman born in the Sate of Maryland, a victim of..... More

Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1846. Second edition, expanded from the 119-page 1845 first edition. 12mo (7.25 x 4.5 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth stamped in gilt, "The Branded Hand" (professionally rebacked with the original spine laid down), 126 pages. Frontis portrait, illus., title page vignette. Walker had attempted..... More

Lowell: A. E. Newton and A. O. Ordway, 1843. First edition. 8vo, removed pamphlet (no wrappers), 20 pages. A rather tepid attack on slavery (amounting to an apologetic work) from the long-time Lowell minister: the Bible allows slavery but none of the Southern slaveholders are adequately observing its precepts. "With..... More

New-York: Published by John S. Taylor, Brick Church Chapel, 1837. First edition. 8vo (7.75 x 4.88 inches), original blind-stamped ribbon-embossed blue cloth, gilt lettering, 348, 8 pages. “Is not the age of Infidelity approaching, along with the time of terrible judgments?” A detailed argument against various “scoffers,” along with an..... More

New York: Edward O. Jenkins, Printer, 1869. First edition. 8vo (9/38 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, gilt lettering, [i-ii], [1-4], [3]-615, [1] pages. Lithograph frontis portrait, inserted engraved plate. Midland Notes 96: “He arrived in St Clairsville, Ohio, in 1817..... More

New York: Published by the Order of the "Union Safety Committee," 1851. One of two editions published in 1851, the other a 32-page pamphlet with a Buffalo imprint. 8vo, likely lacking wrappers, 16 pages. Lord argues for Northern compliance with the Fugitive Slave Law; he makes claims both for the..... More

Boston: Printed by S. N. Dickinson & Co., 1847. First edition. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 12 pages. In addition to the expected condemnations of the practice of slavery and slave-trading, this statement from the Meeting for Sufferings suggests that the Religious Society of Friends' own experiences laboring individually with earlier..... More

Salem: Published by Henry Whipple & Son; Boston: B. H. Greene, 1854. First edition. 8vo, original printed buff wrappers, 26 pages. An attack on the radical Unitarian Frothingham's controversial sermon against the rendition of Anthony Burns (and the complicity of Christianity in slavery), the anonymous author here citing the various..... More

Boston: Felch's Press, 4 Water Street, 1845. First edition. Unbound pamphlet, stitched as issued, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 32 pages. Morton (an ex-governor of Massachusetts) was a Democrat who though personally opposed to slavery had tried to distance himself from the issue; his rival in the state party was the..... More

New-York: Lambert & Lane, Stationers and Printers, 1850. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 36 pages. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink at the head of the front wrapper, "Editor Evening Post With Respects of the Author." From the Presbyterian Spear, a detailed and compelling argument against the Fugitive Slave..... More