$6,930
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Auction: February 17, 2022 10:00 AM EDT
Philadelphia: Garrigues Brothers, 1893. Second edition. 8vo. (iv), 281, (1) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait. Original teal blue cloth, stamped in gilt, boards lightly soiled; all edges trimmed; patterned endpapers; contemporary gift inscription on front blank.
A scarce edition of Frances E.W. Harper's 1892 novel, the third novel ever published by an African-American woman. A lovely, unsophisticated, example.