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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
by Douglass, Frederick Baker, Houston A
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/ACC/ND
- ISBN 10
- 014039012X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390124
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1982* Publisher: Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers different to that illustrated showing a detail from ?Slaves Escaping Through The Swamp by Thomas Moran.? Some bumps, rubs, creases and ageing to edges & corners, no creases to spine, slight crease to hinge. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean & tight. No annotations, marks or inscriptions. Slight colouration to pages throughout. Inside covers heavily tanned. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 151 pp. text.* Product Description:- This is a classic text in both American literature and American history. Following a stirring preface by William Lloyd Garrison (who, nearly 20 years after he first met Douglass, would himself lead the black troops fighting from the North in the Civil War), the not-yet-30-year-old author recounts his life's story, showing effective and evocative use of language as well as unflinchingly examining many aspects of the Peculiar Institution of American Slavery. In his early 20's, he ran away to the North and found refuge among New England abolitionists. Douglass, a reputed orator, combines concrete description of his circumstances with his own emerging analysis of slavery as a condition. This is an acceptable reading copy of the 1st. Penguin edition 1st. impression.* The Penguin American library
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- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3773
- Title
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- Author
- Douglass, Frederick Baker, Houston A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/ACC/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 014039012X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140390124
- Publisher
- Middlesex, England ; New York
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth 159
- This edition first published
- 1982-08-26
- Keywords
- Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography, African American abolitionists -- Biography
- Size
- 18 cm.
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