Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 193

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Small 8vo, dis-bound, sewn signatures, with some nibbling to the top right corner of the first 16 pages; remnants of original wrappers visible at the front joint. Boston, 1845

Additional Details

first edition of one of the single most important slave narratives of the nineteenth century. Evidence at the spine that this was one of a small number of copies issued in wrappers.