Memoir of Mary Anna Longstreth: By an Old Pupil (FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES COLEMAN SELLERS)
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1886. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 Inches. 224 PP. Very Good. Item #8396
First edition copy in the original cloth binding. Title-stamping in gilt to the spine. The frontis portrait (a real photo mounted to the page) of Longstreth intact. Albumen and silver portrait frontis photo by Wenderoth, Taylor, & Brown. This copy from the personal collection of Charles Coleman Sellers, with his plate to front pastedown. Sellers resume includes extensive work for the Winterthur, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dickinson College. Longstreth was a noted abolitionist and head of girls school in Philadelphia. It is rumored that she was integral to the Underground Railroad in the 1850's and was nearly hung in Rittenhouse Square by a pro-slavery mob before the PA militia saved her. An often overlooked book by an overlooked hero of modern education and the abolitionist movement. A very attractive copy that has been well cared for.
Price: $150.00