The Re-Captured Negro
Greenfield, MA: A. Phelps, 1834. First Edition. Hardcover. First A. Phelps/Greenfield Edition. 71 pp. 32mo. Paper covered boards with printed titling, leather spine. Boards have considerable wear and scuffing front and rear, but title still visible. Leather spine separating from boards and quite crisp, but boards still tight to text block. Foxing to endpapers, front and rear, some minor spotting within, overall darkening to pages from age. Four rear leaves missing small bits at the upper right corner and along foredge, but does not effect text. A hardy little volume. Good. Item #30570
Originally published in 1821, this volume went through various reprintings, but this is the first Phelps edition. An early juvenile fiction piece in the abolitionist movement.
Price: $500.00