Lewistown, Pennsylvania: Printed and Published by John W. Shugert, 1836. First edition. 12mo. 400 pp. Full contemporary brown sheep, morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, boards and extremities scuffed and worn, cracks in upper front and rear joints; all edges trimmed; old pencil notations and ownership signatures on endpapers and blanks; dampstaining throughout; sheets toned and foxed; scattered wear along sheet edges; small loss in bottom corner pp. 89/90, affecting a few letters; closed tear in fore-edge pp. 133/134. Howes B-65; Library Company of Philadelphia, Afro-Americana 813; Not in Blockson

Scarce first edition of this influential slave narrative.