Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 1,080
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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Portrait frontispiece. 125 pages. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover; binding skewed with some loss of cloth to the extremities; text evenly toned and clean. Boston: Published at the Anti-Slavery Office, 1845

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first edition of the first of four autobiographies written by douglass: 1845, 1853, 1881 and a little noted 1892 edition, bringing Douglass' total autobiography up to just about the last decade of his life.