Truman Nelson Editor (2 results)

Whit Burnett, editor; Truman Capote, Nelson Algren, Norman Mailer, others Firsts of the Famous 1st Printing, Ballantine Books F598, 1962, Very Good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hill & Wang, New York. 1966. 294 pages; index included. First edition stated, first printing. Book is bright, tight and fine in seemingly unread condition. Original DJ with $5.95 price intact on flap. Slight sunning to red hue on spine. Light rubbing along DJ edges and folds. A small closed edge tear on upper front of DJ. The Liberator (1831-1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper out of Boston, published by William Lloyd Garrison. The paper used a religious slant versus a political one, to appeal to the moral conscience of its readers by urging them to demand the immediate freeing of slaves. The paper counted Frederick Douglass, Beriah Green and Alfred Niger, as its readers. Culled from thirty-five years of its weekly publications, editor Truman Nelson has cherry-picked fifty-plus articles to showcase as the essence of The Liberator; with this book being published in 1966, as the Civil Rights movement was taking hold. A fine first edition, first printing in VG DJ; flaws noted.