Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Beecher Stowe, Harriet
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
London: John F Shaw and Co, 1901. First Thus. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Scarce UK edition of classic tale of American life. Reprint 1901. Red cloth cover with well-preserved gilt lettering and gilt end papers. B'w plates and illustrations. Book is in VG consition and is tight with no marks . Sunday school certificate inscription. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe, the title character Uncle Tom is a long-suffering slave, loyal to both his faith and his master. Presented with an opportunity to escape, he instead chooses to remain in slavery to avoid embarrassing his master. After being sold to a slave trader, Tom suffers brutal treatment and is eventually beaten to death for his refusal to betray his friends — made to represent an ideal of true Christianity. Enormously popular (it was the best-selling novel of the 19th century) and influential, it’s publication in 1852 was instrumental in bringing visibility to the cruel reality of slavery. In more recent years, it has come under considerable criticism for its portrayal of meekness and subservience and the phrase “Uncle Tom” is sometimes used as an epithet for someone seen as overly subservient.
Reviews
On Mar 31 2020, a reader said:
Excellent book to gain empathy and insight into the enslaved pathos, struggle and plight! This book presents well designed ideas to ennoble and elivate the human race as brothers, and sisters of a common God, and Father of us all.
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- Bookseller
- frabjoy books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001367
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Author
- Beecher Stowe, Harriet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- John F Shaw and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1901
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Fiction;
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- Cloth
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- VG
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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