Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

7 7 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Frontispiece portrait. [4], 113, [2], 118-132 pages. 8vo, publisher’s gilt cloth, minor wear, 2 related clippings tipped in; 1952 owner’s inscription on flyleaf. Auburn, NY:W.J. Moses, 1869 [3,000/4,000] first edition of one of the most important slave narratives. The New York Public Library copy has an additional text leaf at page [115] with a half-title for the appendix, “Woman-Whipping, Ethically and Esthetically Considered” by S.M. Hopkins.The present copy and most others seem to be issued without this leaf. Plans have since announced to put Tubman on the front of the $20 bill, though they have been put on hold by the present administration.Afro-Americana 1467; Blockson 3950. 8 c   (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Henson, Josiah. Truth is Stranger than Fiction: An Autobiography of . . . Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom.” 16 plates. xxiv, 335 pages. 12mo, original gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; front inner hinge starting, internally clean; 1881 penciled ownership inscription on front pastedown. Boston, 1879 [500/750] first edition thus , with a new introduction by harriet beecher stowe . This is essentially an extension of Henson’s first two narratives (1849 and 1858).The first (1849) was a lengthy pamphlet, the second (1858) was more substantial.This edition brings Henson’s life down to 1878.Afro-Americana 4733; Work, page 312.