My Bondage and My Freedom. Part 1: Life as a Slave. Part II: Life as a Freeman
New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First Edition, First Printing, First State. Publisher's Decorative Brown Cloth, Gilt Detailing, Engraved Frontispiece of Douglass, Two Plates.
A Fair to Good Book in Original Cloth, Unrestored. Generally worn with cloth fraying to corners and joints. Sunning, spotting, and soiling across boards. Text block is toned and spotted from dust soiling and foxing. First few leaves show evidence of damp staining to top right corner, remainder of text unaffected. Scattered foxing throughout text, free of marking. Final blank leaf with a "donation by" label from a private collection in Vermont. Binding is tight but a bit cocked toward rear. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], [xxxiii], 34-464pp. + [viii Advertisements]
An Example of the First Printing of this Monumentally Important Work, Being One of the First 5000 Copies Printed. Text in the First State as Determined by Blassingame, with all Seven Issue Points Present [Blassingame 285-298]
Fair to Good. Item #1653Price: $5,000.00