NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845. First Edition. Wraps. Foxing to portrait and title page, text generally clean. Small tears to rear endpaper, soiling to recto of frontispiece. Very Good and rare in this format. 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. A rare copy apparently issued in wraps with some of the original paper from the cover still present on the spine. The first page is the portrait, printed on heavier paper, with one rear endpaper.