Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There.

by Our Nig. by Harriet E. Wilson

$150,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859. First edition, first printing. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, coated yellow endpapers. Very Good, spine lean, cloth sunned and a little stained, lettering rubbed and cloth worn at tips, binding holding but some page gatherings proud and hinges cracked; occasional stains, wear, and foxing to contents. Gift inscription on front

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