Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written

by Herself by Harriet A. Jacobs, L. Maria Child, Linda Brent

$175,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Boston: Published for the Author, 1861. First edition. A remarkable family presentation copy of this landmark African American autobiography, given by the author's daughter to friends and abolitionist allies, accompanied by extraordinary first-hand documentation of Jacobs's funeral. 4, blank 2 5–306 4, blank pp. 12mo. Bound in publisher's original light brown beaded cloth, covers blindstamped with a triple-rule

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