Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854.
Price: $950.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 124pp. Green cloth boards gilt on the spine. Frontispiece portrait with Toussaint's inscription in facsimile. Lacks rear fly, foxing on frontispiece, cloth on spine ends worn with some shallow loss, but a tight and attractive very good copy of this memoir of a former slave who rose through his own industry to eventually become hairdresser to the most fashionable ladies in New York, and a pillar of both the black community and the Catholic Church.
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