New Yoirk: W W Norton & Company, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards, light copper colored spine cloth, and copper gilt spine lettering. Stamped black facsimile of signature, assume author's, on front board. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Appears unread. Frontispiece black & white illustration of Frederick Douglass; 9 other black & white illustrations throughout text. Also contains two sections, one eight pages, one sixteen pages, of glossy black & white photographs. Dust jacket very good with 1/3"" closed tear at fold on bottom front. Not price clipped; there is no price. Possibly a BCE, no words to indicate BCE, no blind stamp on bottom back board, but no price, no number line. .

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Seller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: M001124
Title: Frederick Douglass
Author: [DOUGLAS] McFeely, William S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0393028232
ISBN 13: 9780393028232
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Place of Publication: New Yoirk
Date Published: 1991
Keywords: Biography, Frederick Douglass - 181-1895, Abolitionists - United States - Biography, African American abolitionists - Biography, Slavery - United States - Antislavery movements
Bookseller catalogs: African-American Studies; Biography;

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Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.

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Facsimile: An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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Number Line: A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...