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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly by STOWE, Harriet Beecher
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$5,000.00
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Book desription: Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1852. First edition ('J.P. Jewett' at base of spines), later printing. Two twelvemo volumes. [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322, [2, blank] pp. (correct collation). Wood-engraved title vignettes (also on front covers) and six wood-engraved plates. Publisher's 'Extra Gilt' gift binding (BAL binding C) of vertically-ribbed black cloth, covers with elaborate gilt borders surrounding a central gilt vignette (front and back vignettes are both gilt), spines with gilt lettering and arabesques, cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor loss to extremities (though even so hard to detect), some rubbing to tips. Scattered foxing, bookplate. old bookseller's description tipped in. Overall, a wonderful copy of one of America's most influential books in a lovely example of the rare gift binding. Included in a vintage (circa 1880) albumen CDV of Stowe in one of her most famous poses. The photograph measures 4 inches x 5 5/8 inches on photographer's mount slightly larger. Mount has the name of the photographer (but it is illegible for being in a cursive script) and the address ('87 Union Sqr., N.Y.'). Clipped to the CDv is a small signed sentiment in Stowe's hand that reads simply; 'Very truly yours, H B Stowe, Hartford, Nov. 10th, 1876'. [Together with] STOWE, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle TomÕs Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. First edition ('Hobart & Robins' as stereotypers). Octavo. 262, [2, ads] pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine restored, front wrapper reattached, rear wrapper absent. ÒIn the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle TomÕs Cabin exploded like a bombshell. To those engaged in fighting slavery it appeared as an indictment of all the evils inherent in the system they opposed; to the pro-slavery forces it was a slanderous attack on Ôthe Southern way of lifeÕ ... the social impact of Uncle TomÕs Cabin on the United States was greater than that of any book before or sinceÓ (Printing and the Mind of Man). Uncle TomÕs Cabin is the only American novel included in Printing and the Mind of Man. BAL 19343. Grolier, 100 American, 61. Grolier, 100 English, 91. Hildreth, p. 8. Sabin 92457. Printing and the Mind of Man 332.
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