"A LEADER IN THE BRITISH ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT": FIRST EDITION OF ALEXANDER'S PIVOTAL WORK, LETTERS ON THE SLAVE-TRADE (1842)
ALEXANDER, G[eorge]. W[illiam]. Letters on the Slave-Trade. London, 1842.
First edition of a signal work by leading British abolitionist Alexander, whose lifelong efforts "to rid the world of the scourge of slavery" won praise by Frederick Douglass, cited in W.E.B. Du Bois' Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost entirely uncut and unopened in original gilt-stamped cloth. $2900.
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"ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT FIELDS OF EXPLORATION IN THE WORLD"
(KARAKORAM) VISSER-HOOFT, Jenny. Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers. London, 1926.
First edition of Visser-Hooft's account of her and her husband's expedition to the Karakoram Mountains, richly illustrated with two maps (one folding), and 25 photographic plates. $950.
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"DICKENS SEEMS TO HAVE READ WARREN'S FICTION… AND TO HAVE BORROWED IMAGES AND IDEAS"
WARREN, Samuel. Ten Thousand a-Year. New York, circa 1910. Three volumes.
Later edition of this classic 19th-century novel, popular in both England and the United States for much of the second half of the 19th-century, and a likely influence on Dickens, attractively bound. $225.
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