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"Bidding farewell to this safe resting place, where there was nothing to hurt men, he exclaimed in an ecstacy of delight, Free at Last!": Rare First edition of Mrs. Jane S. Collins' Free at Last
COLLINS., Mrs. Jane S.
Free At Last.
Pittsburgh: Press of Murdoch, Kerr & Co., Incorporated, 1896.
First edition of this semi-historical civil rights narrative by Jane S. Collins, whose husband ran the first racially-integrated school in Indiana during the Civil War. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with frontispiece and 15 plates. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Rare.
Price: $4,800.00 Item Number: 142376
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Rare First Edition of Free At Last
COLLINS, Mrs. Jane S.
Free At Last.
Pittsburgh: Murdoch, Kerr & Co, 1896.
First edition of this historical story of Black civil rights in the Jim Crow era. Octavo, original cloth, with 16 drawings and portraits, including Frederick Douglass and Abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Rare with only one example appearing at auction in the last 90 years.
Price: $4,000.00 Item Number: 137487
