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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly. Illustrations. 2 volumes. 12mo, original gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth,

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly. Illustrations. 2 volumes. 12mo, original gilt and blind-stamped brown cloth, re-cased preserving the original end papers, both volumes slightly cocked; faint signs of removal of a personal bookplate, contemporary ownership signatures dated April 1852 on end papers. Boston: Jewett, 1852

  • Notes: first edition, first issue of a scathing indictment of the "peculiar institution" of slavery. The first printing of Uncle Tom consisted of 5000 copies, of which 3000 were sold in one day.

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