Very rare and desirable first edition of Douglass' autobiography. In addition, the volume contains several of his essays as appendices, including perhaps his most famous, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?," and "Letter to his Old Master.
A nearly identical example just sold for $3,500 at auction.
Douglass, Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.-Life as a Slave. Part- II. Life as a Freeman. By Frederick Douglass. With An Introduction. By Dr. James M'Cune Smith. New York. Miller, Orton & Mulligan. 1855. 456pp.
A good to good + copy, bound in cloth that is rubbed through at extremities and un-uniformly faded and handled. Generally a bit shaken with two signatures forward, one being nearly disbound. Pages are a bit handled, with light to moderate foxing as shown, moreso at illustrations as usual.
