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STOWE, HARRIET B. Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly. Boston:  J.P. Jewett, Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852. 1st ed. 8vo. 2 vols. Orig. dark brown cloth with front covers and spine stamped in gilt. Spines chipped (one loose); corners bumped. One front endleaf lacking. $200.00

 

BAL 19343, binding B. On the verso of the title pages: the imprint of Geo. C. Rand Co. is added.

A statement such as "Tenth Thousand" etc., on the title pages, has been neatly erased from each volume. BAL states that the second and all later printings had "thousand" slugs on the title pages.

Grolier American 61. PMM 332. Grolier English 91. LCP Negro History Catalogue 94: "Mrs. Stowe was one of those converted by the [Fugitive Slave Law's] inhumanity...The result of her determination was her famous novel...a runaway sensation....To many she was the little lady who caused the Civil War and freed the slaves."