Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 201
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
HENSON, JOSIAH. Truth Stranger than Fiction. Father Henson's Story. Introduction by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frontispiece. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear at edges and along rear joint; scattered foxing. Boston, 1858

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First published under a slightly different title in 1849, this edition is much enlarged and contains a 3-page preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe claimed that this important and authentic slave narrative provided the basis for her Uncle Tom. Sabin 31433.<