The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History to the Present Time.
Hartford, CT: Park Publishing Co., 1881.
First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1881.) xxiii, [i], 13-516 pp. with tissue-guarded frontispiece, Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth decorated in blind, with titles in gilt on the spine. Very Good with wear and a little fraying to cloth at head and tail, rubbing along bottom edge, worn tips, tiny stain to spine, hinge in middle of book cracked but holding. 1881 gift inscription in an unknown hand on front free endpaper from two people, one of them being Mrs. Martha W. Greene, most likely the correspondent with Douglass who donated her papers about him to Brown University. A nice association. A lovely copy of the final autobiography written by the escaped slave, writer and statesman. Rare.
Price: $6,500.00