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STILL, William (1821-1902). The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, n.d. [1872].
Large 8vo. 24 plates including frontispiece portrait, numerous in text illustrations. Original debossed green cloth gilt, brown coated endpapers (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers). Provenance: gift inscription from a father to his children “whose life was associated with many incidents and [indecipherable] mentioned in the pages of this book”.
FIRST EDITION of this monumental study written shortly after the Civil War and emancipation. Blockson, One Hundred and One 41 (“generally acknowledged as a classic”).