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TRANSLATED BY SARAH MOORE GRIMKE, ABOLITIONIST

14. GRIMKE, Sarah M[oore], transl. (from the French of Alphonse de LAMARTINE).  JOAN OF ARC. A BIOGRAPHY. Boston: Adams & Co., 1867. First edition. 108 pp. 12mo., maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Beveled boards worn, spine splitting at joints. Gilt title bright. Edges stained red. Coated reddish brown endpapers have a few small chips. Interior fine, clean and tight. Tinted portrait of Joan as frontispiece, tissue guard intact. Grimke (1792-1873) with her sister Angelina worked for the abolitionist cause in Philadelphia; they brought the issues of woman suffrage to the movement. This book is a greatly condensed version of Lamartine's biography. SOLD
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