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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman. With an Introduction. By Dr. James M'Cune Smith. New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. 1st ed. 8vo. 464 pp. Frontis. of Douglass and two other plates. Orig. cloth, soiled & heavily worn. Inner front hinge cracking & weak. Slightly shaken. Bound upside down. $275.00

 

LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 3233 (calling for only two plates). Blockson, A Commented Bibliography, 27 (1845 edition): "The narrative was expanded into My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855..."