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STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., and Cleveland: Jewett, proctor & Worthington, 1852.
2 vols., 8vo, title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. Original dark brown cloth, upper covers with gilt-blocked vignette replicating the wood-engraved vignette on the titlepages, repeated in blind on back covers (spine extremities slightly chipped, very light foxing and spotting to a few pages). Full brown morocco protective box. Contemporary owner's signature dated 1852.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Stowe's passionate anti-slavery novel. "Into the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's 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 'the Southern way of life'...The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin...was greater than that of any book before or since" (PMM 332). It remains a record best-seller in proportion to population, for in one year 305,000 copies were sold, while the total U.S. population at the time was 23 million. BAL 19343; Grolier/American 61; Grolier/English 183.
2 vols., 8vo, title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. Original dark brown cloth, upper covers with gilt-blocked vignette replicating the wood-engraved vignette on the titlepages, repeated in blind on back covers (spine extremities slightly chipped, very light foxing and spotting to a few pages). Full brown morocco protective box. Contemporary owner's signature dated 1852.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Stowe's passionate anti-slavery novel. "Into the emotion-charged atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century America Uncle Tom's 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 'the Southern way of life'...The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin...was greater than that of any book before or since" (PMM 332). It remains a record best-seller in proportion to population, for in one year 305,000 copies were sold, while the total U.S. population at the time was 23 million. BAL 19343; Grolier/American 61; Grolier/English 183.