Lot 144
- 144
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John B. Jewett & Company, 1852
- ink and paper
2 vols. 8vo. Publisher’s brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, cream endpapers; one gathering loose and titles spotted else an unusually lovely, unrubbed, bright copy of a book usually found rubbed and worn.. In a quarter-morocco double slipcase.
Literature
Grolier 61; BAL 19343
Catalogue Note
First edition of perhaps the most socially influential american novel of the 19th century, with all issue points.
Uncle Tom’Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly was published on March 20, 1852. Within days the entire edition of 5000 was exhausted. By January of 1853, sales had reached more than one million copies. “Uncle Tom” as a type was introduced into common parlance.
Uncle Tom’Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly was published on March 20, 1852. Within days the entire edition of 5000 was exhausted. By January of 1853, sales had reached more than one million copies. “Uncle Tom” as a type was introduced into common parlance.