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"JOHN BROWN WAS RIGHT" (W.E.B. DU BOIS)

BROWN, John. Life, Trial and Execution of Captain John Brown. New York, 1860.

First expanded edition, issued almost immediately after Brown's execution for the Harpers Ferry raid, containing accounts of his execution not present in the 1859 work that ended at his conviction, with newly added coverage of his final words in "The Execution of John Brown," "John E. Cook's Confession," Brown's "Last Letter to his Family" and his will, along with the 1859 edition's biographies, eyewitness accounts, trial transcripts, and coverage of "Negro Insurrections" including a newspaper's 1831 report of the 1831 Nat Turner rebellion, exceedingly rare with eight in-text wood-engraved plates, original wrappers with woodcut of Brown on the front wrapper. $4800.

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"THE DEATH OF JOHN BROWN IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END"

(BROWN, John) REDPATH, James. Echoes of Harper's Ferry. Boston, 1860.

First edition of one of the very first books on John Brown's Raid, edited and authored by controversial journalist James Redpath, one of Brown's "Secret Six," with major writings by Emerson and Thoreau, abolitionists Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, George Cheever and others, along with extensive Brown correspondence, together in book form for the first time, in original cloth. $2800.

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"AS FAMILIAR IN PRESBYTERIAN HOUSEHOLDS AS PILGRIM’S PROGRESS"

BIBLE. Brown's Self-Interpreting Family Bible. Edinburgh, circa 1875.

Illustrated late Victorian family Bible—the beloved King James text, augmented by John Brown of Haddington's comprehensive Bible study aids, with color-printed title page and 20 illustrations printed in color, handsomely bound, with brass furniture. $2200.

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