Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Frederick Douglass. My Bondage and My Freedom. 3 plates including frontispiece portrait. 464 pages, without the usual [4] pages of publisher's ads. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; intermittent foxing, pages 179-190 coming detached; faint 1855 inscription on front free endpaper. New York and Auburn, NY, 1855

Additional Details

First edition. The second of Douglass' four autobiographies, preceded by the 1845 Narrative. Several of his essays are included in the appendix, including "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (see above for the first printing) and "Letter to his Old Master."