UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Already deeply versed in the literature of fugitive slave narratives and armed with decades of firsthand experience assisting those who self-emancipated, Stowe composed a narrative that owed much to the actual experiences and accounts of formerly enslaved people. In A KEY TO UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1853), published after pro-slavery advocates argued that scenes in the novel didn't happen or were exceptions, Stowe painstakingly documented sources employed in her novel, including THE LIFE OF JOSIAH HENSON, FORMERLY A SLAVE (1849); and THE NARRATIVE OF PHEBE ANN JACOBS (1850).
First serialized in 1851 in THE NATIONAL ERA, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN was published in book form in March 1852. The first edition of 5000 copies immediately sold out, as did a second printing. The publisher remarked that "three power presses are working twenty-four hours per day, in printing it, and more than one hundred book-binders are incessantly plying their trade to bind them, and still it has been impossible, as yet, to supply the demand" (THE NATIONAL ERA, 15 April 1852). It appeared in a number of different binding variants (wrappers at $1.00, regular cloth at $1.50, and extra gilt at $2.00). The typical cloth binding features substantially less gilt than this rarer deluxe version. A lovely copy of the most desirable state of this social reform classic. Two 12mo volumes, 7.5'' x 4.5'' each. Original blue pictorial cloth elaborately stamped in gilt to spine and boards (BAL binding C, no priority). All edges gilt, cream endpapers. Illustrated with six full-page plates (three in each volume). x, 13-312; IV, 5-322 pages (complete; see BAL 19343). Housed in custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Pencil owner name "O. Dickinson" dated May 1852 to front endpapers. Later portrait of Stowe tipped onto front pastedown of volume I. Minor expert restoration to head and tail of spines, which are a touch sunned; light rubbing to boards. Careful hinge repairs, infrequent soil and foxing, primarily to margins, far less than usual. Sturdy and appealing.
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47446
- Title
- UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
- Author
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- John P. Jewett & Company / Jewett, Proctor & Worthington
- Place of Publication
- Boston / Cleveland, Ohio
- Date Published
- 1852
- Keywords
- 19th century,US American,Abolition,Woman Author,Reform,Gift Pict Cloth,Pictorial Cloth
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- 12mo
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.