My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass

$12,500 · Offered by B & B Rare Books

First edition

Hard Cover. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First Edition. Near Fine. Introduction by Dr. James McCune Smith. First edition, first printing. Original publisher’s brown cloth, with decoration in blind to boards, titles in gilt to spine, three engraved plates including frontispiece portrait of Douglass engraved by John Chester Buttre. Minor rubbing to cloth,

• Binding: Hardcover

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