Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 16,250
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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
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, moderate wear including light chipping to backstrip; minimal foxing, dampstaining to final blanks only; early owner's signature and 1929 inscription on front flyleaf. 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.

With--the second Boston edition, same collation. 12mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; moderate foxing; early owner's signatures on front and rear free endpapers. Boston, 1846.