SKETCHES IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, COMPRISING MANY THRILLING INCIDENTS OF THE ESCAPE OF FUGITIVES FROM SLAVERY, AND THE PERILS OF THOSE WHO AIDED THEM by PETTIT, Eber M - 1879

Fredonia, NY: W. McKinstry and Son, 1879. First Edition. Softcover. Contents fresh; covers soiled with fading to the front, some chipping to the edges and to the top and bottom of the spine. Very Good. Printed salmon wraps; 174 pages. A somewhat scarce title, dedicated to Frederick Douglass, this is the only copy we have been able to find published in wraps as opposed to hardcover. Pettit was a traveling salesman, mostly of patented medicines and leather goods, who would hide runaway slaves aboard his wagon. Some copies of the hardcover edition, but not all, mention a portrait, in one case specified as an albumen photograph, but there is no portrait here nor any indication there ever was one. Work, page 338.