PA Book Sale Volunteers Find Abolitionist Text and Slave Memoir

From the Library Journal Print Page:

Volunteers sorting through books for a public library book sale came across a rare find: a single, leatherbound volume containing a first edition of Lydia Maria Child's 1833 book, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called African, and an 1840 second edition of The Slave: Memoirs of Archy Moore. Liza Holzinger, coordinator of the Bethlehem (PA) Area Public Library book sale, told reporters she couldn't believe what landed on her desk. "I was pretty impressed by it, especially after I started doing research on the topic," she said.