Whittier : Bard of Freedom. [The Quaker Inheritance; New England Anti-Slavery Riots; Emotional Onslaught on Slavery; A Recently Discovered 'Round Robin']

Bennett, Whitman. [association copy: Bert Buckley]

Verlag: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; New York : Van Rees Press, 1941., 1941

Beschreibung

xv, 359 p. illus. 24 cm. ; Green cloth with gold lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation copy from the author and bookman Whitman Bennett to Bert Buckley, most probably Bert B. Buckley, Ohio State Treasurer from 1927-29 and delegate from Dayton, Ohio to the 19 16 Republican National Convention in Chicago, remembered for having broken the color barrier in Ohio in 1918 while acting as State Fire Marshal by hiring blacks to the state Fire Marshal's office ; facsimile of Whittier letter tipped in ; fold-out reproduction of the abolitionist broadside with Whittier's poem, "Our countrymen in chains" (has a small tear) ; ep gutters foxed ; small nicks to dustjacket ; a little dusty, else VG/G. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2268

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Whittier : Bard of Freedom. [The Quaker ...

Verlag: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; New York : Van Rees Press, 1941.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1941

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)

Art des Buches: Book