MASSACHUSETTS QUARTERLY REVIEW, VOLUME I
Boston, Mass: Coolidge & Wiley, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 9.4 in. x 5.8 in., pp. 528. Half calf over marbled boards. Title in blind (gilt rubbed off?) and five raiesd bands to spine. Rubbing to edges with corners showing and spine ends frayed. Two inches eparation on rear gutter. Slight warp to front board. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Moisture stain in margin of lower left corner of first 100 pages. Pages are bright and supple. Good. Item #82788
First year of the Massachusetts Quarterly Review, No. I-IV, December 1847 - September 1848. Introduction written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Includes the essay: "The Legal Basis for American Slavery."
Price: $150.00