Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) NORTHUP, SOLOMON. 12 Years a Slave, Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, Rescued in 1853. Frontispiece portrait and six additional inserted plates, the latter lightly toned. Thick 8vo, original cloth, recased, rubbed and worn with some loss of cloth to the extremities; a couple of signatures sprung; lacks the tissue-guard to the front plate. Auburn, NY, 1853

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first edition. A classic slave narrative recently made into an Oscar-winning motion picture.