William Lloyd Garrison on non-resistance,: Together with a personal sketch by his daughter, Fanny Garrison Villard, and a tribute to Leo Tolstoi

The Nation press printing Co. Good. Signed and inscribed by co-author Fanny Garrison Villard, noted women's suffrage leader and NAACP co-founder. 1924 first edition, The Nation Press (New York), 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches tall embossed blue cloth hardbound, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard and two other photographs (including one of Fanny with her co-author father William Lloyd Garrison), xii, [1], 79 pp. Light to moderate rubbing and edgewear to covers, with moderate to heavy staining. Warmly inscribed and signed on the blank front free-endpaper in the year of issue by Fanny Garrison Villard. Light dampstain to the lower edge of the title page, frontispiece and preceding endpaper. Otherwise, apart from mild age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked. Works signed by Fanny Garrison Villard are rare. ~SP11~ Helen Frances 'Fanny' Garrison Villard (1844-1928) was a women's suffrage campaigner and a co-founder of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Fanny Garrison married publisher and railroad tycoon Henry Villard. While raising her children, she led a life fairly typical life of a woman in a traditional upper-class marriage. After her children were grown and her husband died in 1900, Fanny Garrison Villard became more active in peace groups and women's rights. She joined the American Woman Suffrage Association, and marched against the First World War in New York City in 1914. Her son, Oswald Villard, was a prominent pacifist and civil rights activist and longtime editor of The Nation magazine. William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, which he founded with Isaac Knapp in 1831 and published in Massachusetts until slavery was abolished by Constitutional amendment after the American Civil War. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.