Human Life: Illustrated in My Individual Experience as a Child, a Youth, and a Man

Boston: Bela Marsh, 1849. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (18.5cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; 414pp; steel mezzotint portrait frontispiece. Rubber stamp of William Floyd to copyright page. A firm, upright copy, but with wear to edges and losses at tail, dampstaining to upper and fore-edges of front board (not affecting interior), lacking the front free endpaper, with tide mark to upper margin of about half the text: Good or better.

Part autobiography, part personal philosophy by the important American proto-anarchist, feminist and abolitionist Herny Clarke Wright, published by the Boston radical publisher Bela Marsh, known for disseminating works by fellow abolitionists and freethinkers throughout the mid-19th century. [62319].