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NORTHUP, Solomon (1807?-1864). 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, et al: Derby and Miller, et al, 1853.
8vo. 7 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece (marginal spotting). Original blindstamped brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine (extremities a bit worn, biodegradation to upper cover fore-edge, lacking front free endpapers). (Spotting and browning throughout). Provenance: Thomas C. Davis (early ownership signature).
FIRST EDITION, early printing (“Tenth Thousand”). An important firsthand account of slavery in the southern United States and the basis for the 2013 Academy Award-winning film on the same title.