Prudence Crandall An Incident of Racism in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut - SIGNED copy
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. [1-3], 4-113. Illustrated with eight black-and-white reproductions. With a list of sources. Bound in full blue cloth with black and white lettering stamped on spine. In the dust jacket that shows slight fading to spine. Inscribed by Fuller on the front free endpaper. Fine / Very Good+. Item #5053
Inscription reads, "For -- -- , in friendship and esteem [signed] Edmund Fuller / Kent, Conn. Feb., 1971". Biography of the remarkable Quaker educator who, despite threats of violence, opened her private boarding school for black girls in Canterbury, CT. Includes correspondence with abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. A bright, fresh copy with very slight age-toning to dust jacket. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Price: $30.00