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(SETS AND BINDINGS.) Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Writings.

SIGNED (SETS AND BINDINGS.) Stowe, Harriet Beecher. The Writings. 17 volumes [complete], including 16 volumes of the Writing plus the additional volume of the Life of Stowe. Frontispieces and other illustrations. 8vo, 3/4 dark green morocco over green cloth, spines uniformly faded to brown, most volumes with light flaking at joints and tips, but all sound and attractive overall; Volume 11 professionally and almost invisibly rebacked; Volume 10 with dampstaining to the first section of contents, not visible from spine; owner's book labels on pastedowns. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1896

  • Notes: number 17 of 250 sets of the large-paper edition, with an inserted sheet signed and dated by stowe on January 5th, 1906. As she only signed a few at a time, each inserted sheet bore different dates. This is the second to earliest date listed. The frontispieces appear in both an uncolored and colored state. A handsome and uncommon set.
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