STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. Two volumes. First edition, first issue with all points called for by BAL. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and covers stamped and lettered in gilt and blind, housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (19.5 x 12.5 cm); 312 pp.; 322 pp. Lacking flyleaf at rear of volume one, neat contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper and title, very intermittent internal spotting, both volumes with a very slight lean, spine tips with a few short tears and chips, spines slightly darkened and covers with a few small stains. A desirable copy of Stowe's masterpiece, one of the most important books of the nineteenth century. BAL 19343; Grolier 100 American, 61; Printing and the Mind of Man, 332. C
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly . Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852. Two volumes. First edition, first issue with all points called for by BAL. Publisher's brown cloth, spine and covers stamped and lettered in gilt and blind, housed in a custom half-morocco slipcase. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches (19.5 x 12.5 cm); 312 pp.; 322 pp. Lacking flyleaf at rear of volume one, neat contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper and title, very intermittent internal spotting, both volumes with a very slight lean, spine tips with a few short tears and chips, spines slightly darkened and covers with a few small stains. A desirable copy of Stowe's masterpiece, one of the most important books of the nineteenth century. BAL 19343; Grolier 100 American, 61; Printing and the Mind of Man, 332. C
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