Hand Shadow Stories
Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 1863.
Price: $150.00
Softcover. First edition. Square 12mo. 32pp., with full-page illustrations engraved by W. Roberts. In the original pictorial yellow wrappers. Early owner’s small ink name stamp on title page. The wrapper is soiled and worn at the edges, spine neatly mended with Japon paper, else good or better with the title page and a few text pages modestly soiled. Includes *Sambo the Contraband* (about a freed slave), illustrated with a hand shadow engraving of Sambo in profile.
Item #511243
