Uncle Tom's Cabin~International Collectors Library
by Stowe, Hariett Beecher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Pickering and Inglis. Hardcover. VG++/VG+/ND. Box X14 HARDBACK ""FROM THE EXELSIOR LIBRARY,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Reprint.* Date: Pre 1931. (1852).* Pub: Pickering and Inglis.* Binding and cover condition: Light blue cloth covered boards showing a picture of two men with two mountain peaks behind them. Dark blue titles to face & decoration with title to spine. Very slight bumps, no rubs. Very slight marks to tail of lightly faded spine, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. School prize plate to ffep dated 1931. no tanning or other visible faults. Some age toning to all edges. VG++* Illustrations: One full page colour illustration at frontis and a couple of full page b/w illustrations in text.* Pages: 149 pp. text. vi pp. advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a powerfully moving story that follows the lives of African-American slaves. What makes this novel so poignant is that when written it did not fall into its current category of ‘historical fiction’. It was simply ‘fiction’. In her research, Stowe did not delve deep into encyclopaedias and trawl old newspaper articles; she asked her friends. A fervent abolitionist, she wrote the novel to bring the individual agonies of slavery accusingly into the public eye. Its mixture of compassion and almost bitter anger is so compelling that it was credited by Abraham Lincoln as a major catalyst of the civil war.* A NEAR FINE copy of this reprint in the Excelsior Series with some minor age and wear reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10024
- Title
- Uncle Tom's Cabin~International Collectors Library
- Author
- Stowe, Hariett Beecher
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/ND
- Publisher
- Pickering and Inglis
- Pages
- 475
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Plate
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- FFEP
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
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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.
- Fine
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