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(ABOLITION.) Lydia Maria Child. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen and Ticknor, 1833 Frontispiece plate, 2 full-page engravings. [6], 232 pages. 12mo, 7¼ x 4½ inches, contemporary cloth, rejointed, minor wear, partial original label on backstrip; moderate foxing, lacks errata slip; inscribed on front free endpaper in Child's hand "To Mr. George Sharp, with the respects of the author," with very early Connecticut library bookplate below.   First edition of a radical work which argued for immediate abolition of slavery without compensation to the owners. It was described as "the first anti-slavery work ever printed in America in book form" by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.  The frontispiece is a variant on the classic abolitionist image of an enslaved person kneeling in prayer. A full-page engraving on page 16 demonstrates different types of shackles. Afro-Americana 2269; Bibliography of American Literature 3116; Sabin 12711.