 Author Name: Stower, Harriet Beecher
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Cleveland Boston: John P. Jewett & Co., Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington 1853
Illustrator: designs by Hammatt Billings; engraved by Baker and Smith
Seller ID: 502
560 pp. Minor rubbing to binding; frontispiece and both titles foxed; still VG to near fine. Outstanding copy of an important work whose life began in the limited circulation periodical 'Washington National Era' weekly. Over the next ten months as reader after reader continued to pass their copies on to others it quickly became a national sensation. Across the nation people discussed the novel and hotly debated the most pressing socio-political issue dramatized in its narrative, slavery. Because Uncle Tom's Cabin so polarized the abolitionist and anti-abolitionist debate, some claim it to be one of the causes of the Civil War. Indeed, when President Lincoln received its author at the White House in 1862, legend has it he exclaimed, "So this is the little lady who made this big war?" Portrait frontispiece; additional pictorial title; text illustrations throughout. Half-title. 8¾x5½, full leather pictorially gilt, all edges gilt. "Illustrated Edition". Lavish illustrated edition, leather issue. Both front and back covers with wonderful large gilt vignette of Jesus with three slaves, ornamental gilt border, the spine shows Eva and the cabin. BAL 19527. please e-mail for more pictures.
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