FIRST EDITION OF LYDIA MARIA CHILD'S APPEAL IN FAVOR OF… AMERICANS CALLED AFRICANS, 1833
(SLAVERY) CHILD, Mrs. [Lydia Maria]. Appeal in Favor of… Americans Called Africans. Boston, 1833.
First edition of "a central document of the abolitionist movement," the revolutionary 1833 work that made Lydia Maria Child "one of the first Americans to speak out against the institution of slavery," complete with three steel engravings, including the iconic frontispiece of an enslaved woman, full-page engraving of slave manacles and torture devices, and full-page engraving of Mungo Park with an African woman, a handsome copy in original cloth, housed in a custom chemise and half morocco slipcase. $4000.
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