Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER. Uncle Tom's Cabin; Or, Life Among the Lowly. 2 volumes. Title vignettes and 6 wood-engraved plates. 8vo, original dark brown cloth, front covers with gilt-blocked vignette, repeated in blind on back covers, rebacked with original spines laid-down, short splits to joints; intermittent scattered foxing, contemporary ownership signatures on first two blanks, discreet booklabels on front pastedowns; housed in 1/4 brown morocco slipcase with folding cloth chemises, by Macdonald. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852

Additional Details

first edition, meeting all points. BAL's B binding. "The social impact of Uncle Tom's Cabin was greater than that of any book before or since" (PMM 332). BAL 19343.