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Sale 2708 - Lot 176

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Frontispiece portrait. xvi, 125 pages plus two final blank leaves. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, minor staining and wear including chipping to backstrip; minor dampstaining and foxing; signature and inked stamp of early owner Julius Heurlin (1868-1939), a Swedish-American nurseryman in Massachusetts. Boston, 1845
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First edition of his first book, published only 7 years after his escape from slavery, and bravely written under his own name. Its tremendous success placed Douglass in immediate danger of capture; he spent the next two years in Great Britain and Ireland until his freedom was secured. Features prefatory notes by abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. Blockson, One Hundred and One Influential Books 27.

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