Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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WASHINGTON, Booker T. (1856?1915). The Papers? Edited by Louis R. Harlan and others. Urbana, Chicago and London: University of Illinois Press, [1972?1984]. 14 volumes including index, 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Original beige cloth; original dust jackets (lacking jackets on Volume I and Volume IV, several unopened in cellophane wrappers). FIRST EDITION of this essential collection of selective writings, addresses and correspondence. Washington was an African American educator, author, orator and advisor to U.S. Presidents, who would become the leading voice of the formerly enslaved who were newly oppressed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.