[Rarebooks] FS: Frederick Douglass's NARRATIVE, 1845, First Edition, in wraps

[charles agvent]

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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN 
AMERICAN SLAVE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office 1845. 
First Edition. Stitched wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece 
portrait of Douglass. xvi, 125 pages. Preface by William Lloyd 
Garrison and printing a letter by Wendell Phillips. Douglass's first 
book and the preeminent slave narrative of the 19th century. This is 
an unusual copy in that it appears never to have been bound but rather 
consists of a group of signatures stitched together. The front 
endpaper is absent and the rear endpaper is only partly present. The 
portrait and the following 20 pages are chewed in the upper right 
margin to varying degrees but never with any loss. The text shows an 
occasional stain and rather light foxing throughout. Good or better 
and quite unusual in this state.   $2500

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