LOVEJOY, JOSEPH C. and OWEN. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy who was Murdered in Defense of the Liberty of the Press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837 Introduction by John Quincy Adams. 12mo, modern brown buckram, gilt-lettered spine; light

LOVEJOY, JOSEPH C. and OWEN. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy who was Murdered in Defense of the Liberty of the Press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837 Introduction by John Quincy Adams. 12mo, modern brown buckram, gilt-lettered spine; light scattered foxing; news-clipping from 7 November 1937 New York Herald Tribune bound in explaining the case of this abolitionist and his murder; some offset. FIRST EDITION. New York: John S. Taylor, 1838