Description:
Northup, Solomon (1808-1863) Twelve Years a Slave. Auburn: Derby & Miller; Buffalo: Derby, Orton & Mulligan; Cincinnati: Derby, 1853.
First edition, octavo, illustrated with frontispiece and six full-paged plates, with publisher's advertisements bound between the yellow endleaves in the front, in blind-stamped cloth boards, the whole very worn and carelessly and repeatedly read, spine detached and mostly perished, board edges completely worn, text block broken, virtually every page with finger smudges and stains, page corners dog-eared, some pages detached, some pinned in place, childish signatures of John, George, Eliza, and Ann Hobart inscribed on endleaves, 7 1/2 x 5 in.
Estimate $600-800
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