Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black

The original 1859 run was small and commercially unsuccessful, so virtually every copy encountered today is a 20th-century reprint following the book's rediscovery and its reattribution to Wilson by Henry Louis Gates Jr., published as a scholarly Vintage/Random House edition in 1983; a genuine George C. Rand and Avery printing dated 1859 is required for the first edition.