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

[Charles Agvent]

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 to text or  image.
The   text  shows  an  occasional   stain  and  rather  light   foxing
throughout. Good or better and quite unusual in this state.   $2500.00


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