History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
Published by Published by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston, 1859
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
AbeBooks seller since July 25, 1997
Condition: Used - Fair
US$ 125.00
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First edition Compiled by Jacob R. Shipherd. With an Introduction by Prof. Henry E. Peck, and Hon. Ralph Plumb. Large octavo. 280pp. Cloth. Contemporary stamp of Paynesville, Ohio bookseller C. S. Bartlett. Binding quite worn at extremities, spine and endpapers crudely repaired, text has some early dampstaining and foxing, with owner's early pencil notes and scoring to endpapers and text; just a good copy. A transcription of a court case testing the Fugitive Slave Act, involving a slave that had escaped from Kentucky to the Oberlin area of Ohio and the attempts by the slaveholder to recapture his slave.*Howes 5419*.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
- Author
- SHIPHERD, Jacob
- Publisher
- Published by John P. Jewett and Company, Boston
- Publication year
- 1859
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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