Behind the Scenes. Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - Price Estimate: $300

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Elizabeth Keckley Behind the Scenes 1868

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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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