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Lot 2
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
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Live / Philadelphia
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$4,725
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[African-Americana] Douglass, Frederick My Bondage and My Freedom...
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. 12mo. 464 pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Douglass, and two engraved plates. Original blue cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt, boards, extremities, and spine faded and worn; all edges trimmed; bookseller's ticket on front paste-down; a few gatherings slightly proud; some scattered creasing. Sabin 20714; Blockson 9717
A very good and unsophisticated copy of Douglass's scarce second memoir.