Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin [and] A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, plus an inscribed and signed note card and CDV of the author Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher Place: Boston Publisher: John P. Jewett & Company Date: 1852 Description: 2 volumes. [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322 pp. 6 wood-engraved plates. Publisher's 'Extra Gilt' gift binding (BAL binding C) of vertically-ribbed black cloth, covers with elaborate gilt borders surrounding a central gilt vignette (front and back vignettes are both gilt), spines with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, base of spines read, "Jewett & Co." First Edition, later printing. Includes a carte-de-visite of Harriet Beecher Stowe, with original mounted albumen photograph which is 14x9.8 cm. (5½x4"), and a 1¾x3½" card inscribed and signed by Stowe, dated 1896. * Lot also includes: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. 262, [2, ads] pp. (8vo), original wrappers. First Edition. John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth-bound volume spine ends chipped, wrapper bound covers detached, spine lacking; bookplates in cloth-bound vols. and old bookseller's labels to front endpapers; some yellowing and foxing; else very good. Item number: 215368
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin [and] A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, plus an inscribed and signed note card and CDV of the author Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher Place: Boston Publisher: John P. Jewett & Company Date: 1852 Description: 2 volumes. [iii]-x, [13]-312; iv, [5]-322 pp. 6 wood-engraved plates. Publisher's 'Extra Gilt' gift binding (BAL binding C) of vertically-ribbed black cloth, covers with elaborate gilt borders surrounding a central gilt vignette (front and back vignettes are both gilt), spines with gilt lettering, all edges gilt, base of spines read, "Jewett & Co." First Edition, later printing. Includes a carte-de-visite of Harriet Beecher Stowe, with original mounted albumen photograph which is 14x9.8 cm. (5½x4"), and a 1¾x3½" card inscribed and signed by Stowe, dated 1896. * Lot also includes: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon which the Story is Founded. Together with corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. 262, [2, ads] pp. (8vo), original wrappers. First Edition. John P. Jewett & Co., 1853. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth-bound volume spine ends chipped, wrapper bound covers detached, spine lacking; bookplates in cloth-bound vols. and old bookseller's labels to front endpapers; some yellowing and foxing; else very good. Item number: 215368
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