Solomon Northup
Twelve Years a Slave First Edition
Derby and Miller
1853
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A first edition of Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup.
- Solomon Northup (American).
- Edited by David Wilson.
- Twelve Years A Slave. Narrative Of Solomon Northup, A Citizen Of New-york, Kidnapped In Washington City In 1841, And Rescued In 1853, From A Cotton Plantation Near The Red River, In Louisiana.
- Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853.
- Octavo.
- 336 pages.
- Contains all seven wood engravings, including frontispiece portrait, and four-page catalogue between yellow endpapers.
- Fully bound in publisher's brown cloth with blind stamping to covers, spine with gilt titling.
True first printing, with no mention of “Thousand” at top of title page.
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GoodBoards have moderate general scuffing, soiling, and rubbing wear, moderate bumping to fore corners, rubbing wear and splitting along extremities including 0.5 inch of loss along spine tail (backing board exposed), chipping long front joint, and fraying along spine head.
Spine moderately cocked.
Text block edges have moderate scuffing and age-toning, mild dust-burning along head edge and light waviness along tail edge.
Interior has mild soiling to endpapers, faint brown liquid staining along head edge of publisher's advertisements and frontispiece, mild bending wear along tail fore corners pages 143-146, and mild foxing throughout.
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