[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, Jewett Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
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Live / Cincinnati
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$3,000 -
5,000
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$3,780
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Lot Description
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. STOWE, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896). Uncle Tom's Cabin. Boston and Cleveland: John P. Jewett & Company, Jewett Proctor & Worthington, 1852.
2 volumes, 8vo. Title-page vignettes, 6 engravings. (Occasional spotting.) Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt-lettered (spines slightly leaned, edges worn, some spotting). With engraved portrait of Stowe by H.W. Smith with Stowe's facsimile signature tipped in as a frontispiece in Vol. I.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, in BAL's binding B [no priority]. Stowe's abolitionist novel credited with changing the attitudes of the American public towards slavery and Black Americans. BAL 19343; Grolier American 61.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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