Shipherd jacob r compiler (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blind-ruled grown cloth with gilt spine lettering. viii, 280pp. Good plus overall. While inner hinges and text block are a solid very good, clean and nice, the binding is quite rough and edgeworn, especially along length of spine, which is chipped along the top, and rear board cloth mottled. A tight and decent first edition of this court case transcript introduced by Henry E. Peck and Ralph Plumb -- a famed test of the Fugitive Slave Law involving an escaped slave from Kentucky and the owner's attempt to reclaim him in Ohio. HOWES S 419.…