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Books and Manuscripts (47)

 

Lot 154
Baldwin's The Fire Next Time in jacket

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $288
Estimated at $200 - $300

Lot 164A
Crane's The Little Regiment, the first issue

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 168
Inscribed first edition of Ellison's Invisible Man

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $3,520
Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 188
Zora Neale Hurston's Moses

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $2,176
Estimated at $500 - $800

Lot 226
First edition of an important photobook

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 228
An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000

Lot 229
Brittania Set Me Free

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,000

Lot 230
The scarce and important first edition of this 1766 anti-slavery tract

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 231
The first American edition of Clarkson's famous essay

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 232
Three volumes by Clarkson

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $544
Estimated at $700 - $1,000

Lot 233
Essay on the Impolicy of the Slave Trade, 1788

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $2,880
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 234
History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $4,160
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 235
Thomas Clarkson on sugar grown by slaves in Cuba and Brazil

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 236
The 1787 Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $3,840
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 237
The proceedings of the first convention of abolitionist societies, scarce in wrappers

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,792
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 238
A 1796 edition of Washington's Farewell Address

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 239
The remarkable Will of George Washington, 1799

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $7,680
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 240
Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $7,040
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 241
A scarce anti-slavery, precursor novel to Uncle Tom's Cabin

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 242
The first edition of Tocqueville, with an important association

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $8,320
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 243
The arguments of Adams and Baldwin in the Amistad case

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $6,400
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 244
The Hogan copy of the first edition, first issue of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $12,800
Estimated at $10,000 - $15,000

Lot 245
With an introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $160
Estimated at $200 - $400

Lot 246
An attractive copy of Douglass's second autobiography

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $3,200
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 247
The Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case, in original wrappers

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $4,480
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 248
A slavery narrative, Aunt Sally or the Cross, the Way of Freedom

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 249
A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,088
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 250
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $2,048
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500

Lot 251
The Senate printing of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $2,500 - $3,500

Lot 252
The Emancipation Proclamation in a fine set of War Department Orders

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $5,000 - $8,000

Lot 253
An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield at Gettysburg

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $20,000 - $30,000

Lot 254
Frederick Hill Meserve Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000

Lot 255
Finely bound and signed by Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $768
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 256
Whitman's Drum Taps and the Sequel

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $2,000 - $3,000

Lot 257
The History of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, basis for the film Glory

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,536
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 258
Frederick Douglass' honest speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $12,800
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 259
First edition of Twain's landmark of American literature

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000

Lot 260
Inscribed copy of Cable's The Negro Question

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $896
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 261
Booker T. Washington's first book

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 262
The first edition of Booker T. Washington's autobiography

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Estimated at $400 - $600

Lot 263
The Brown v. Board of Education opinion signed by Chief Justice Earl Warren

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $5,120
Estimated at $4,000 - $6,000

Lot 264
Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land, inscribed

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $224
Estimated at $300 - $500

Lot 265
Signed by Rosa Parks

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $640
Estimated at $600 - $800

Lot 266
The Limited Editions Club edition of King's Letter from Birmingham City Jail

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $2,432
Estimated at $1,000 - $1,500

Lot 267
Langston Hughes Sunrise is Coming After While

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,152
Estimated at $800 - $1,200

Lot 268
Bookmarks in the Pages of Life

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $1,280
Estimated at $1,200 - $1,800

Lot 269
An autograph letter from Washington's first year as President

Estate / Collection: Property from the Rotondaro Collection

Sold for $12,160
Estimated at $6,000 - $8,000