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Signed first edition of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight.
Octavo, xx, 888pp. Blue hardcover, title in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing with full number line. In publishers first edition dust jacket, retail price on front flap, fine condition. Signed by the author on title page: “David Blight. Nov. 26, 2018. NYC.”
Comments: Author and historian David W. Blight won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and the Lincoln Prize for this work on Frederick Douglass. This was the first major biography of Frederick Douglass in nearly three decades.
