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Boston: Office Boston Daily Bee, 1857. 8vo.; paper wraps, 60 pages; softcover; wraps are lightly soiled, rubbed and torn especially on spine ends else very good.
An Oration Delivered Before The Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857 The Genius and Posture of America by Alger, William Rounseville - 1857
by Alger, William Rounseville
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An Oration Delivered Before The Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857 The Genius and Posture of America
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Boston, MA: Boston Daily Bee, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Size=6"x9.5". (full book description) Boston Daily Bee, Boston, MA, 1857. 1st Edition VG, Hard Cover, DJ Not Issued. Size=6"x9.5", 60pgs. Has a leather spine & marbled boards. Leather nicked head & foot of spine, boards rubbed at fore-edge corner tips, top 1" of Title Page cut off, blank label near top edge of front cover, faint foxing specks on endpapers, o.w. clean & tight. No ink names, bookplates, etc. Text is in Near Fine condition. [Anti-Slavery Speech; Boston, MA; American Slavery; Abolition] SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!
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- Keywords TB 2/4, Anti-Slavery Speech, Boston, MA, American Slavery, Abolition
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The Genius And Posture Of America An Oration Delivered Before The Citizens Of Boston, July 4, 1857, By William Rounseville Alger
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The Genius and Posture of America. An Oration Delivered before the Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1857, by William Rounseville Alger
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Boston: Office Boston Daily Bee, 1857. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. About very good with wrappers torn several inches along spine, front wrapper with two small tears along bottom edge and a closed tear along fore edge, owner's name on top edge, text clean.. 60 pp. 8vo. William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) attended Harvard Divinity School from 1844-1847, was a Unitarian minister in Roxbury, Mass., where he served until 1855, was a member of the Free Masons. and an active abolitionist and this speech created quite a stir: "The fierce clamor of the slaveholding interest for more room, fresh prey, new chains and whips, and a longer lease of power drowns the voices of the Revolutionary Fathers, vilified the Declaration of Independence, incenses the country, disgraces the age, and insults the world." Preface and appendix. Sabin 757. LCP. Afro-Americana 222 (2nd).
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