Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy; Who Was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the Press, At Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837. With an Introduction by John Quincy Adams.
by (LOVEJOY, Elijah P.) LOVEJOY, Joseph C. and Owen
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
Octavo, original blind stamped brown-gray cloth. Interior generally clean with mild & occasional foxing, mere trace of damp staining at the rear, very mild edgewear, minimal soiling to original cloth. A very good copy now housed in a brown custom cloth clamshell box. First edition of the publisher and editor's memoir issued the year after his murder—killed by "five bullets in his heart, while defending his fourth press from an armed, arsonist mob"—only two years after he denounced the lynching by fire of a free black man, as an act of "savage barbarity," with introduction by John Quincy Adams, a seminal record of a key event in America's abolitionist battle and the history of the First Amendment. A book seldom found in the publisher's cloth.
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- Bookseller
- Reginald C. Williams Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 234
- Title
- Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy; Who Was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the Press, At Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837. With an Introduction by John Quincy Adams.
- Author
- (LOVEJOY, Elijah P.) LOVEJOY, Joseph C. and Owen
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John S. Taylor
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1838
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Slavery, Americana
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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Reginald C. Williams Rare Books
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