My Bondage and My Freedom, Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman

Title: My Bondage and My Freedom, Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Free man.

Tall 12mo. 1855. Douglass, Frederick. New York and Auburn: New York and Auburn.

Full dark brown leather with greenish gilt double rule and floral frame device to covers. Spine with five raised bands, gilt title in gilt frame to second compartment, gilt author with gilt frame to third, heavy gilt foliage and devices to all others. Beige endpapers. Frontispiece lacking. Damp stains to front and rear free flyleaves, some soiling to inner pages, darker stains to pgs. xxiv-xxxi, 32-34 affecting first plate and to pages 333-336 affecting second plate. Covers slightly splayed. Regardless, a beautiful, important book.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

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