Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
by [Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer]
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1854. Second edition. Hardcover. Good. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. 12mo. 124pp. Bound in blink-stamped green cloth. Frontispiece portrait. Stated second edition. Chipping and fading to head and tail of spine. Corners are bumped. Binding is still tight. Foxing to frontispiece and tissue guard. Narrative of a Haitian-American hairdresser, philanthropist and one time slave, later freed, brought to New York in 1787. He took the naem Toussaint in honor of Revolutionary Haitan leader Toussaint Louverture. Sabin 39737.
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- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69657
- Title
- Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
- Author
- [Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Crosby, Nichols, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- Haiti Slave Narrative
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.