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Signed first edition of Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight.
Octavo, xx, 888pp. Blue hardcover, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line. In publisher’s dust jacket, retail price on front flap, a touch of shelf wear, in near fine condition. Signed by the author on title page: “Best Wishes – David Blight.”
Author and historian David W. Blight won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for History and the Lincoln Prize for this work on Frederick Douglass. This was the first major biography of Frederick Douglass in nearly three decades.
