Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher - 1952

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> Uncle Tom's Cabin tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person, depicted as saintly and dignified, noble and steadfast in his beliefs. While being transported by boat to auction in New Orleans, Tom saves the life of Little Eva, an angelic and forgiving young girl, whose grateful father then purchases Tom. Eva and Tom soon become great friends. Always frail, Eva's health begins to decline rapidly, and on her deathbed she asks her father to free all his enslaved people. He makes plans to do so but is then killed, and the brutal Simon Legree, Tom's new owner, has Tom whipped to death after he refuses to divulge the whereabouts of certain escaped slaves. Tom maintains a steadfastly Christian attitude toward his own suffering, and Stowe imbues Tom's death with… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. The Riverside Library, 24th Printing. Near Fine, a few tiny dots of soiling to edges of page block, in a Near Fine dust jacket, light rubbing at the edges. A handsome copy of this classic American novel. . Later Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.