Sale 672: Rare Americana, including California & the West (#672) 05/02/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 8 of 455:
Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyer's Premium):$540
Estimate:
$300 - $500

Title:
Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
Author:
Keckley, Elizabeth
Place:
New York
Publisher:
G.W. Carleton
Date:
1868
Description:

371, + [8] ad pp. Portrait frontispiece. (8vo) 7¼x5", original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

After purchasing the freedom of her son and herself, she was employed as a dressmaker in the home of Jefferson Davis and then by Abraham Lincoln, while in the White House. Institutional label on spine, institutional bookplates on pastedowns.

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Condition:
Moderate wear, slight lean, rubbing at spine ends, edges and corners; free endpapers excised, occasional stains; about very good.
 
Item number:
307658
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