SPEARS, THE AMERICAN SLAVE-TRADE, 1901, Inscribed, Illustrated, Publisher’s Cloth

John R. Spears. The American Slave-Trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901. Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Octavo. Inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf in 1902. Publisher’s maroon cloth with gilt lettering and borders to front cover and spine, top edge gilt.

Sound used copy; rubbing, small splits, and fraying at spine ends and corners; minor surface scuffs to boards; early ownership inscription and light pencil notes to flyleaf; pale offset tanning from laid-in material across preliminary leaves.