Swann Galleries - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, Sale 2342, March 27, 2014 - page 41

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—JUVENILE.) AMERICAN TRACT SOCI-
ETY.
The Happy African, to which is added The Grateful Servant.
Woodcuts.16
pages. 32mo, original pictorial stiff paper wrappers; faint crease to front cover; paper lightly
and evenly toned.
New York, [circa 1829]
[300/500]
Probable second or third edition, of a popular “toy” book.
SCARCE
,
LOCATES JUST TWO
COPIES OF THIS PRINTING
.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—JUVENILE.) SHERWOOD, MARY
MARTHA [BUTT].
Dazee, or the Recaptured Negro. By Mrs. Sherwood.
Woodcut frontispiece and title-page vignette, plus two additional cuts at the end. 48, [1]
pp. Tall 12mo, original printed salmon wrappers, sewn; early ownership signatures on title-
page; small split at the bottom of the spine.
Newburyport: Printed by W. & J. Gilman, 1822
[300/400]
SECOND EDITION
, preceded by an 1821 Boston edition. Contains two poems at the end p.
[46]-[48], “the Negro’s Complaint,” and “The Negro boy who was sold for a watch.”
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—JUVENILE.)
Cuffy’s Description of the
Progress of Cotton.
Eleven hand colored plates, constituting the original “toy” book
(minus the title-page), matted and framed.
Boston: Lilly Wait, Colden and Holden 1833
[600/800]
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