My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary or near-contemporary half blue cloth over maroon cloth boards, with printed title label to spine. Very Good with light marking to covers, spine darkened, light rubbing to corners and spine ends. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown, former owner private ex-libris sticker to front free endpaper. Front free endpaper cracked at

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