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RARE ABOLITIONIST BROADSIDE RELEASED IN 1859, THE SAME YEAR AS THE HARPER'S FERRY RAID

(BROWN, John). Broadside. "Address of John Brown." Boston, 1859.

Fascinating 1859 broadside sharing John Brown's speech before the court prior to receiving his death sentence of the Harper's Ferry Raid, published the same year as both the raid and Brown's execution and originally sold by the abolitionist weekly, The Liberator. $8500.

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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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"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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"AN IMPACT ON THE COURSE OF NATIONAL EVENTS MATCHED BY FEW IN AMERICAN HISTORY"

(BROWN, John) REDPATH, James. Public Life of Capt. John Brown. Boston, 1860.

First edition of the profoundly influential first biography of John Brown, authored by his close friend, leading journalist and abolitionist James Redpath, who produced this biography 40 days after Brown's death while evading arrest for his own suspected participation in the Harpers Ferry raid, with engraved frontispiece of Brown and two engraved plates featuring scenes from Harpers Ferry and Brown's trial. $950.

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