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First Edition of Frederick Douglass' "True Life Story"

Frederick Douglass. My Bondage and My Freedom. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855.

First edition. Octavo. 464 pages. Three tissue-guarded engraved plates, including the frontispiece, taken from the famous daguerreotype of Douglass.

Publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Minimal shelf wear to the edges and boards. Spine slightly toned. Endpapers and textblock edges mildly toned. Overall, a stellar copy of Douglass' scarce second autobiography in near fine condition.

My Bondage and My Freedom
is the second of Douglass' three autobiographies that together chronicle one of the greatest lives in American history.

Sabin 20714


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October, 2009
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