[Rarebooks] FS: 1845 True First Edition of Frederick Douglass's NARRATIVE

[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. 		$2,500.00

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