The Reminiscences of Neal Dow; Recollections of Eighty Years
Portland, Maine: The Evening Express Publishing Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-769, [3] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with black lettering and a gilt decoration of Dow sitting at his writing desk on the front board, gilt lettering on the spine; all edges decoratively spotted navy. Floral green endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with several plates of black and white photographs of significant people from Dow's life. With a four-page brochure for The Neal Dow Memorial, located at Congress Street in Portland. It is designated as a National Historic Landmark and is administered by The Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union. A centennial paper is also laid in, celebrating the hundredth-year anniversary of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Also with a copy of the Maine Historical Society Newsletter from the Winter of 1988. ANB, William H. Brackney, "Dow, Neal (20 March 1804–02 October 1897)". Neal Dow is best remembered as a fierce advocate for abolition and for prohibition. He passed a law in 1851 that would influence the later federal prohibition laws passed in the United States during the twentieth century. Dow served in Maine's Thirteenth Regiment during the U.S. Civil War and was captured in Louisiana and spent time in Confederate prisons. Neal Dow also ran for President of the United States in 1880. His parents participated in the Underground Railroad. His autobiography, published posthumously, tells the fascinating story of a Mainer, a book collector, and a Quaker. Fine. Item #000012985
Price: $125.00