Deeper Wrong; Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written

by Herself by Harriet Jacobs, Linda Brent, Lydia Maria, Pseudonym

$85,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

London: W. Tweedie, 1862. First British edition, first printing of the scarce feminist narrative of escape from slavery, and the first published slave narrative by a woman. 306 pp. In a recent half faux-leather over marbled boards, new endpapers. Very Good+. Former owner bookplate and penciled Linda M. Brent to front pastedown. Contents tanned, thumbed and sporadically spotted, with an occasional corner crease. A truly

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