HENSON, JOSIAH. "Truth is Stranger than Fiction." An Autobiography of Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Engraved portrait fron-tispiece. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth;

HENSON, JOSIAH. "Truth is Stranger than Fiction." An Autobiography of Rev. Josiah Henson (Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom"). With a Preface by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Engraved portrait fron-tispiece. 8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth; some light mottling; extremities lightly rubbed. Boston: B. B. Russell, 1879 E250/350 Second printing of 1858 first. Henson was the model for Beecher's Uncle Tom. Not in Blockson or Schomburg Collections; Brignano, 439 cites 1969 reprint of origi-nal edition.