[SLAVE NARRATIVES]. NORTHUP, Solomon (ca 1807/1808-ca 1864). Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup. Auburn, NY, Buffalo, NY, and London: Derby and Miller, Derby, Orton and Mulligan, and Sampson Low, Son & Company, 1853.
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Feb 28, 2023
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[SLAVE NARRATIVES]. NORTHUP, Solomon (ca 1807/1808-ca 1864). Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup. Auburn, NY, Buffalo, NY, and London: Derby and Miller, Derby, Orton and Mulligan, and Sampson Low, Son & Company, 1853.
12mo. Frontispiece portrait and 6 plates. (Toned, brown spotting, contemporary inscriptions.) Recased with original brown cloth laid down, spine gilt-lettered (losses of original cloth at edges and spine, adhesive residue at joints, hinges reinforced).
FIRST EDITION, “Seventeenth Thousand” memoir of Solomon Northup. A free-born African American, he was drugged and kidnapped in Washington DC before being transported to New Orleans and sold into enslavement. This memoir was published during the first year of his regained freedom with several printings in the first edition and 3 additional editions by 1859. Sabin 55847.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the Patrick Atkinson Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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