Native virginia (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Second Edition. Small Octavo (7 1/2 in. x 5 in.). Handsome, dark brown, wave-patterned cloth-over-boards, with copper lettering to spine. Very light rubbing to extremities. Chocolate-brown endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to (second) endpaper (date blurred, but probably [18]"62"). Small number (around 9) of pages show bracketing and underlining in light pencil - inoffensive. Textblock pages, bright and supple. Plea for an end to slavery by an American, abolitionist clergyman. ".Of every other flag that floats under heaven, you may be sure that it does not cover the traffic in human beings. Of thine, O Union! we cannot even yet say whether it is protecting a nationa's honor or a world's shame.The union is always called the Ship of State; and the figure was never so appropriate as now, when she has got out here amid the swellilng waves of the popular heart, the fresh gales of Freedom fililng her sails and snapping her flag, and all the churches and the parties seized with deadly seasickness. There is no doubt now what they've all been feeding on. The vomit is black. We find that the churches have been retaliating upon the native African's fondness for 'cold missionary,' with an equal devotion to pickled Ethiopian, and that the loaves and fishes at Washington have invariably been eaten with African sauce.". …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition. Small octavo. 131pp. Original purple pebble cloth. Owner label affixed on front pastedown and lacking the rear fly, light dampstain on pages and boards, spine ends and corners nicked and worn, a good only copy. This second edition contains a preface noting that this would be published shortly before the Emancipation Proclamation would be issued by President Abraham Lincoln.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Bound in dark brown cloth with blindstamped pattern and borders on boards. Faded gold lettering on the spine. Wear to crown and foot of spine and corners. Library numbers written in white on the top corner of the front cover. Binding good and tight. Inside front cover has large bookplate from the National Military Park in Fredericksburg, VA (Conway's home town), stamped 'withdrawn' at the side. A small label below the bookplate says 'By Exchange from New York Public Library, 1941." Ownership name on first blank page, "E. N. Partridge 1862." There is a waterstain on that page, as well. Title page dated 1862. Stated second edition. Conway's name is not printed on the title page, but a librarian has written in in pencil below the printed 'Native of Virginia.' 131 pages. Another large water stain on rear endpaper, but nothing on the text pages themselves. Overall a good copy, with the added interest of being from Fredericksburg, VA, where Conway's house still stands. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.…